My first book is called TAIWAN RAILWAY HISTORY MONOGRAPH.
It includes mainline, local line, narrow railways in Taiwan, and their
fleets(Locomotives,EMU,DMU, Passenger trains....)
My first book is called TAIWAN RAILWAY HISTORY MONOGRAPH.
It includes mainline, local line, narrow railways in Taiwan, and their
fleets(Locomotives,EMU,DMU, Passenger trains....)
My second book is called TAIWAN RAILROAD STORY.
It includes The story of sugarcane engines ,10 Railfans' stories and
some interesting stories in Taiwan Railroads.
My third book is ALISHEN FOREST RAILWAY. Alishen is a big mountain in Taiwan. The most famous locomotive there is the LIMA Shay steam locomotive. This railway is narrow gauge system (762mm). It didn't look like Japan style railway. It is very similar to American forest railroad. The #26 Shay Steam Locomotive is still alive. This book can bring you to go through all the beauty of this railroad, and introduce its trains.
My 4th book is THE RAILFANNING IN TAIWAN. This is an introdution book for people want to know what's RAILFANNING. You can see beautiful pictures, interesting stories and events.
My 5th book is TAIWAN OLD TRAIN STATION. This book was written by me and another writer. I introduce the old stations still exist in 1990s.
My new book, Classic Taiwan Railway has come out in 1998. This is my biggest book than ever. Total 535 pages, over 1500 photos. And more color pages!!! This book is written in Chinese, but Japanese will be easily to understand because most of terms in Taiwan are not too far from Japanese. The book includes 4 parts: Volume I= Railway History, Train History. Volume II=Branch Line & Short line, Railroad station, bridges, tunnels, roundhouse...etc. You can go to my homepage to view the cover of my new book. They are located at: http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~cwhung/newphoto1/cover1.JPG and cover2.JPG
Those 2 photos were taken by my granddad in 1930s. A very historical photo in Taiwan.
This book is published by SMC Publishing in Taipei, Taiwan. For people live in oversea, they provided the following method to order this book.
You need to contact the book company by mail, phone, or FAX, and gave them your credit card number or send money into their account. They will send book to you. I think they will allow you to get the book first then send money later.
Their phone number is 886-2-2362-0190
FAX number 886-2-2362-3834
ADD: PO Box 13-342 Taipei 10764
Taipei Taiwan
Mr Wei, Te-Wen
# If you live in America, Europe: Hardcover Seamail US$ 61.40 Airmail US$ 93.40 Softcover Seamail US$ 50.60 Airmail US$ 73.40 (Please use credit card)
# If you live in Japan: Hardcover Seamail 7700 Yen Airmail 9400 Yen Softcover Seamail 6400 Yen Airmail 8000 Yen
They have a Bank account in Fuji Bank ,account number is 152-1576408. You can easily buy them using Japanese Yen. But you had better to ask them fax you a form to order.
# If you live in Hon Kong: Hardcover Seamail HK$ 415 Airmail HK$ 470 Softcover Seamail HK$ 345 Airmail HK$ 390
They have an account in Hang Seng Bank LTD., head office HK. Account number 262-208267-001, Account name: Wei Te Wen & Wei Syl
If you want to buy those books, Please contact Mr.Wei He is the boss of a book company in Taiwan. You can paid Japanese Yen or US$. He can speak English and Japanese very well. Feel free to contact him. He also has many books about Taiwan Research. My next book will be published by his company( Nan-Ten). TEL 886-2-362-0190 , FAX 886-2-362-3834
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