Book review 2:
A Hundred Years of Progress in JNR Rolling Stock. Published circa 1973. This is entirely in Japanese with only names of main chapters also in English. I cannot read this one and include it only to show JNR class C62, which is claimed to have the speed record for narrow gauge steam locomotives, 80 mph (129 km/h), attained on 15 Dec 1954. Book review 1 gave SAR 16E as still faster. We will check the evidence later .
Otherwise, this heavy book is quite handy if one needs to know what any Japanese locomotive or railcar looked. There are 10+494 pages, size 190x255 mm and something like 1500 to 2000 photos. I did not count them this time. Steam locomotive section shows one basic photo of each class, the sample page 82 is quite typical. Other sections show also details, like engines, bogies, seating arrangements and like. The first pages are unnumbered, steam locomotives are on pages 1-84, electric locomotives p. 85-140, diesel locomotives p. 141-168, passenger cars p. 169-260, freight cars p. 261-320, electric railcars p. 321-420, diesel railcars 421-468 and Shinkansen on p. 469-492.
I did not not find any on sale just now (using the name in English).
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