A Picture Album of Steam Locomotives in China 1876-2001 [Chinese-English]. ISBN: 9787113041472

English Title: A Picture Album of Steam Locomotives in China 1876-2001
Chinese Title: 中国蒸汽机车世纪集影 (1876-2001)
ISBN-10: 7-11-304147-7, 7113041477
ISBN-13: 978-7-11-304147-2, 9787113041472
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: 2060g
Size: 270mm x 247mm x 30mm
Language: simplified Chinese, English
Year of Publication: 2001
Publisher: China Railway Publishing House (中国铁路出版社)

This impressive illustrated book shows a unique selection of steam locomotives which were operated in China. Complete bilingual edition in simplified Chinese and full English translation. Richly illustrated, partly in color. A valuable, unique illustrated book, China Railway Publishing House, Beijing, 2001, 288 pages, hardcover.

Contents
Foreword
1. The Oldest Steam Locomotives in China
2. Foreign Steam Locomotives Running on China's Railways
2.1 Steam Locomotives Built by Britain 2.2 Steam Locomotives Built by the United States
2.3 Steam Locomotives Built by Japan
2.4 Steam Locomotives Built by Germany
2.5 Steam Locomotives Built by France
2.6 Steam Locomotives Built by Belgium
2.7 Steam Locomotives Built by Czechoslovakia
2.8 Steam Locomotives Built by Tsar Russia and Switzerland
2.9 Steam Locomotives Built by Former Soviet Union and Poland
3. Class KF1 Steam Locomotives - designed by China and built by Britain
4. Steam Locomotives manufactured by China at different periods
4.1 Steam Locomotives assembled by imported parts and components
4.2 Steam Locomotives mimicked from foreign models
4.3 Imported imitations
4.4 Steam Locomotives designed by China Herself
5. The Steam Locomotives which made great contributions to China
6. The collection and exhibition of steam locomotives in China
(1) A Table of Steam Locomotive Types Collected in this album
(2) A Table of Chinese and Foreign Ways of Naming Steam Locomotive Wheel Arrangement and Axle Arrangement
(3) A Modification History of the Chinese ways of classifying and numbering steam locomotives
(4) A brief table of technological indexes of main foreign steam locomotives employed on China's railways
(5) A table of structure and functional indexes of steam locomotives made by China
(6) A Statistical table of the Chinese Steam Locomotive Producing capacity and numbers of steam locomotives owned by China
(7) Major events about the steam locomotives on China's Railways
(8) The Chinese Association of Steam Locomotives