Can anybody identify this 'critter'? I regret not taking any notes (we were travelling seeking living steamers - most of those in the car were not interested in diesels, so I was given a few seconds to cross the street take a couple of pics and off we go again!)
The power of Internet! Seiji Takahashi san just provided me with this info, it is most probably built by "Matsuyama Jusharyo Kogyo" a manufacturer of track maintenance equipments in Japan.
Takahashi san have a web site called EMU
in Asia (in Japanese) but he also has Photo
collection of his visit to Indonesia in 1994 this one in English.
This is taken on the Gundih - Gambringan line in a small roadside station. It was coupled to a short ballast train.
Take a look at pictures of Indonesian train during colonial times