Product Description

- The 70 series war damage recovery passenger car is an emergency recovery vehicle that was damaged by air raids or accidents during the Pacific War.
- For the Japanese National Railways (then the Ministry of Transport's Railway Directorate), which suffered from a shortage of transportation capacity after the war, it was impossible to replace the huge number of rolling stock lost in the war with new rolling stock alone due to a lack of materials and production capacity. Therefore, 376 series 70 war-damage recovery passenger cars were produced by 1950 (Showa 25), which were temporarily restored by reusing reusable bogies, underframes, and bodies from the damaged vehicles. it was done.
- These emergency restoration vehicles had extremely poor customer service facilities, so as the situation calmed down, they were converted from passenger cars to luggage cars in just a few years, and most of them were scrapped by the 1960s.
- However, some vehicles that had been modified for business use, such as relief vehicles, remained until the late 1980s, at the end of the JNR era.
- In this book, we will use photos and external drawings to explain the war damage recovery passenger cars, for which there are extremely few records due to the times, focusing on the approximately 100 types of exterior variations, using photographs and external drawings.


Item Size/Weight : 25.7 x 18.3 x 0.4 cm / 172g

• *Please note that the book's paper strip may not be included. Additionally, we do not offer replacements for any damage or wear to the strip.

Product Specifications

Item series

RM Library

Item code

055234

ISBN code

9784777055234

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