Book (Practical) Railroad RM Library 277 70 series war recovery passenger car (top) Railways in general

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[Contents introduction]
The Series 70 War-Disaster Recovery Passenger Cars were made by temporarily recovering the cars damaged by air attacks during the Pacific War. The Japan National Railways (at that time, the General Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport) lost thousands of cars due to the war damage, but it was impossible to make up for the lost cars only with newly manufactured cars due to a shortage of materials and production capacity despite the shortage of transportation capacity caused by the increase in transportation volume after the war.
Among the damaged cars, approximately 400 so-called' War-Disaster Recovery Cars' were manufactured by 1950 (1950) to carry out emergency recovery by using reusable things such as carts, underframes and car bodies.
However, when the situation became stable and new cars became popular, these simple emergency recovery cars were remodeled from passenger cars to cargo in only a few years because the customer service facilities were extremely inferior. However, most of them were scrapped by the 1960 s, and some of them were remodeled for business use such as rescue cars remained until the late 1980 s in the end of the Japan National Railways.
This book explains the War-Disaster Recovery Passenger Cars, whose records are extremely low due to the current of the times, by using photographs and exterior drawings with a focus on variations in their appearance.