Issued: January – March 2005
Contents:
- Editorial, Letters & E-mails
- Diary Dates, Sales & Wants, Chairman’s Chat
- News Update
- Tōbu Railway Update
- Tōkaidō Shinkansen 40th Anniversary
- Niigata-Chūetsu Earthquake
- Juxtaposition and Competition between JR and Private Railways
- Meitetsu Sakura Station
- The Ohmi Railway
- Shōnan Livery and the 80 Series EMU
- It’s a Snow Joke for the Shinkansen
- Baseball and Railways
- D51 Class Locomotives Beyond Japan
- JRS Shop and Library
- Book Review
- Model-In: C53, DD53, EF53 locomotives
- Model shops: Japan Model Railways & M.G. Sharp
Front cover: Top: C53 45, a locomotive in the collection of Umekoji, JR West , Kyōtō.
Bottom: E2 and E4 Shinaknsen at Niigata, follows Niigata-Chūetsu earthquake article, photo by Chris Hood