[Limited benefit: Postcard included] RM Re-Library 22 Dowa Mining Katakami Railway

Scheduled to be shipped sequentially after 2/20

``RM Re-Library'' reprints two to three volumes of past masterpieces from ` `RM LIBRARY '', which has a long history of over 280 issues.
The 22nd volume in the series is a reprint of "Dowa Mining Katakami Railway" (authored by Yuichi Terada) from RM Library volumes 127 and 128 .

It is a 33.8km line that connects Yanahara, a mining town in Okayama Prefecture, to Katakami, facing the Seto Inland Sea, and was completed in 1931 . Zakuhara is known as a production area of ​​iron sulfide ore, and there was a time when it was valued as a raw material for sulfur in major industries. In fact, it can be said that the Katakami Railway was also a railway with an extremely large amount of freight transportation, ranking 10th among private railways in Japan in terms of freight transportation volume in 1945 .
In the 1950s , it reached its peak in terms of both passenger and freight transportation, and in addition to large diesel cars, the railway was famous for its locomotive-pulled passenger trains.

Then, due to changes in the industrial structure, freight transportation was the first to end. It was discontinued in 1991 , although it remained for passengers only. On the contrary, it can be said that it survived until the beginning of the Heisei era, and there are many people who remember it fondly.

This book not only explains the origins of the line and introduces each facility and rolling stock, but also features descriptions that convey the spirit of this railway, which the author has experienced through many trips since the 1970s . This is a book worthy of being kept as both a resource and a reading material.