Bullet-In # 44
Issued: October - December 2002
Contents:
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Special issue on Mountain Railways
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Railway Scenery
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The Tateyama Sabo Works Project
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Nagasaki Switchback
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The Sakuradani Light Railway
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Night trains - and how to use them
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The Best Railway in the World? (A swiss view to Japan)
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Japanese Stations (1): Tokyo, Japan's most famous station
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Japan re-visited 2002 (1)
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JR Locomotive Stock Analysis (1)
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Restaurants (6): Daishoan on the old Tama-den
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Signals (3): Repeater Signal, Runaway Safety Spur, Accidents
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VVVF or the three phase AC electric drive (2)
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Model-In: DD 13 Diesel Locomotive
Front
cover: Top: Seto Ohashi bridge, JR Shikoku EMU Okayama - Sakaide, 90
km/h, 15:45 February 1999. Photo by Richard Tremaine. Bottom: Autumn
colours of the Shin Etsu line with 'Asama' ascending the Usui pass
(Usui Toge), 3 November 1996. Train headboard inset indicates Ueno
(Tokyo) - Nagano. Through route closed 1997. 489 class EMU and EF63
locos can be boarded at 'Poppo Town' museum in Yokogawa. Photo by
Minoru Shinozaki.