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Locomotives of China - The Foreign Steam Locos
Locomotives of China - The Foreign Steam Locos
The Foreign Steam Locos is the fourth volume in this series on Chinese locomotives. The book covers most of the foreign-built standard and mainline metre gauge steam locos (not covered in other volumes, and not including the Pacific classes which will be covered in Volume 5), and also a few domestically-built locos, going back to Rocket of China in 1881. There are over 700 black and white illustrations. The book contains short summaries of the principal railways pre-1949, extensive references and a bibliography.
Amongst many other classes, the book covers the Vulcan Foundry KF1 4-8-4s and the other British-built classes including the ROD 2-8-0s, the Dean Goods and Kerr Stuart 4-2-2s, the American “S160” (KD6) and KD7, “S200” War Department 2-8-2 (JF10), the War Department “USA” or “S100” tank locos and all the other American-built classes, the Polish tank locos, the Soviet FDs, the Japanese 9600 (KD5) and other Japanese-built locos including the streamlined 4-4-4T, the Kowloon Canton Railway steam locos, the various articulated locos, steam railcars, the German-built locos, French and Belgian locos including the Compounds, the Skoda locos etc.
Hardback, in English, printed on good quality paper, 344 pages, size approx 30.5cm x 22cm x 3cm, weight 1.9kg. ISBN 9780993419232
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