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The C57 train kit is now available in USA.For those that have built the D51 here is another stunning locomotive kit.For those who looked at the D51, but didnt want to paint the c57 comes prepainted. http://www.model-space.c...57-steam-locomotive.html
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Great to see the C57 has made its way to the USA.
The C57 class dates from 1937 and lasted well into the last years before the end of steam in 1975. Sixty four were still in service three years earlier. C57 #135 (Mitsubishi 285/1940) is displayed in the centre of the Japanese National Railway Museum. It hauled the JNR’s last passenger train which ran on Hokkaido on 14th December 1975 – reportedly with more than 2,000 passengers squeezed into its eight carriages and watched by another 25,000 people at the lineside.
Railways came late to Japan, largely due to isolation from the outside world imposed upon the country by its rulers for some 200 years until the 1860’s. After this ended the government soon embarked upon railway construction. Japan was far from being an industrialised country and needed help from outside. The government looked to British expertise for railway construction on Honshu, the largest island, to the US for Hokkaido, the most northerly of the four main islands and to Germany for Kyushu in the west.
The US influence on the early railways was clear to see with a number of locomotives supplied by Porter (369/1880). They were the first US locomotives to run in the country and were coupled to an ornate and unmistakably US-built bogie coach.
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