Product Description

Kumoha 12 was the last to be used on the Okawa branch of the Tsurumi Line until March 1996 as a synonym for the old-fashioned national railway for fans of national railways in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
This vehicle was active until the 90's because of the short body of 17m and the relationship between the sharp curve of the Okawa branch line and the platform.
The Kumoha 12 that survived until the Heisei era retains the atmosphere of the Ministry of Railways' train = power saving that appeared from the Taisho era to the early Showa period, and is called the 17m class national train in the hobby world because of its body length. rice field.
In the 1980s, the interest of fans was not exhausted, such as the examples that remained as commercial cars in various places and the cars that showed a second activity on local private railways.

This book is explained by Yoichi Miyashita, the authority of old-fashioned trains, from a model perspective on the 17m-class trains of the National Railways, which were active all over the country, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Introducing all the vehicles that were active in business cars and private railways in later years. This is a must-have book for train fans, which is close to the whole picture of a 17m class train.


Item Size/Weight : 29.7 x 23.3 x 1 cm / 712g

Product Specifications

Item series

Neko Mook

Item code

026302

ISBN code

9784777026302

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