RM Re-Library 22 Dowa Mining Katakami Railway (Book) - HobbySearch Hobby Magazine Store

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- The 22nd volume of the [RM Re-Library] series is a combination of RM Library volumes 127 and 128 and [Dowa Mining Katakami Railway (Part 1 and Part 2)] (written by Yuichi Terada, volume 2010).
- The Dowa Mining Katakami Railway runs from Katakami, which faces the Seto Inland Sea, to Wake, which is a connecting station with the Sanyo Main Line, to Bizen Yada, Susai, Yoshigahara, and then to the mining town of Sabahara. It was a railway that led to Yanahara).
- The iron sulfide produced at the Sahara Mine was transported to Katakami and then transported by sea to the Dowa Mining Okayama Refinery at Okayama Port, where the sulfuric acid was separated and used as chemical raw materials and fertilizers.
- This book tells the first part of the 68-year story, which begins before the Katakami Railway started running, at the dawn of the Sahara Mine in the late 1800s, the history and planning of the Katakami Railway, its opening in 1923, and its complete abolition in 1991. In addition, the second part is a collection of stories about the steam locomotives, internal combustion engines, internal combustion vehicles, passenger cars, and covered and open freight cars that were on the Katakami Railway.

Item Size/Weight : 25.9 x 18.4 x 0.7 cm / 332g