JNR Suha44 & Mashi35 Cars

[Steve]

Hello,

 

does someone know when the Suha44 Express Cars and Mashi35 Dinning Cars first appeared on Japanese Rails?

 

[bill937ca]

Information is from Japanese language Wikipedia.   Google translate is your friend.  I found these by adding JNR to the Su Ha 44 car designation and searching in Google. Just watched for any Wikipedia reference.

 

Suha 44 type
This was a third-class express car that appeared in 1951, with 34 cars manufactured, SuHa 441-34 [ 29 ] . The basic structure was similar to the SuHa 43 series, but the deck was only on one side like the special second-class cars, and the interior had two rows of one-way fixed cross seats on either side of the aisle with a seat pitch of 835 mm. At the time, it was common for express trains to turn around at the terminus and place the observation car at the very end, and the adoption of the one-way fixed cross seats in this series was based on that assumption.

It was equipped with a high standard of accommodations comparable to that of an ordinary second-class car (called "Nami-Ro"), which could not be compared to the general public third-class passenger cars of the time, when the 70 series war damage restoration cars and the cramped 60 series steel-bodied passenger cars were commonly used.

 

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/国鉄スハ43系客車

 

From the same article.  For this type there is also a drill down article link.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/国鉄マシ35形客車

 

Mashi 35

The Mashi 35 series was a dining car, three of which were built in 1951. They were the first all-steel cars for the Japanese National Railways . [ 30 ] Also in 1951, two Mashi 36 series cars were built, which featured electric refrigerators and ranges . [ 31 ]

Edited September 30 by bill937ca