INDEX

0 milepost, 64

1,000 mile mark, 128, 220, 223

1067mm (3’ 6”) gauge, adoption of, 65, 68, 122, 151, 193, 202, 214, 219

1435mm gauge, 65, 92, 158, 174, 230, 232, 233, 235

1435mm (4’ 81/2”) gauge adoption consideration, 92

1892 Railway Law, 158, 173, 211, 225

4-6-2 Pacific-type, 247

5,000 mile mark, 59, 220, 221, 223

9600 Class, 175, 250, 251

A8 class, 99, 112, 114, 115, 116, 137, 140, 145, 169, 176, 177, 191, 196, 211, 233

Abt cog railway system, 164, 165, 168, 235-237, 239

AEG, 168, 235

Air conditioning, 69

Ajigawa branch, dismantling of, 89, 90, 100, 101

Akabane line, 109,115, 153, 176, 233, 234

Akabane Works, 107

Akabo, see Red caps

Alco, 139, 160, 193, 217, 247, 248, 252

Amarube Viaduct, 247

Amemiya Works, 163, 242

Amenomiya Keijiro, 242

American locomotives, acendency of in Japan, 194

Anglo-Japanese Treaty, 152, 213

Ashio Tetsudō, 202, 204

Ashiya-gawa Tunnel, 87, 88, 90

At a Railway Station, 187

Atami Keiben Tetsudō, 203

Atsuta Tetsudō Sharyo, 191

B6 Class, 104, 140, 217, 219

Baba Station, 102, 103, 181

Baldwin, 138–140, 145, 147, 150, 185, 186, 189, 190, 192–194, 207, 217

Beyer-Peacock, 118, 126, 165, 167, 190, 235

Bidding, competitive, 177

Big Five, The, 112, 202, 217, 220, 229

Billmeyer and Small, 122

Bingham, US Minister, 101, 123

Black, John, 31, 61, 79, 84

Blunders, 71, 213

Boarding supervision, 83

Bodyguards for foreign workers, 71

Bond issue for nationwide industrialization, 101

Boyle, R. Vicars, C.S.I., 74, 102, 110

Bridgens, R. P., 69

Brill Company (Philadelphia), 177

British locomotive production, peak capacity, 194

British yatoi an impediment, 102

Brooks, 116, 138, 140, 185, 217, 226

Brunton, Richard Henry, 41, 42, 46–48, 55, 72, 119

Bureaucratic government, 118, 153, 215, 230

Car boy, 184, 185, 242

Cargill, William, 61, 63, 64, 72

Carriage retrofit to meet demand, 84

Cast iron crossties, 70

Causeway, 25, 55, 73, 76, 79, 126

Central Line, completed, 212

Central Pacific Railroad, 74

Chamberlain, Basil, 25, 157, 189, 252

Chigasaki Station, 134, 210

Chikuho Tetsudō, 151, 154

Chishima Kyuichi, 103

Chōshū Five, 41, 42, 49, 64, 65

Chūō (Central) Line, 126, 153,170, 210– 212, 233, 234, 251

Class, color coding by, 59, 184, 135

Classes of locomotives, standardized, 247

Competition with IJGR, 185

Competitive ventures, disfavored 112

Condemnation, land, 157

Construction methods, American, 123

Construction methods, traditional, 74

Construction of Railways, law of, 157, 158

Cost of labor, 105

Cost of materials, 105

Crawford, Joseph Ury, 120, 122, 123, 194

CSS Stonewall, 35, 39, 45, 53, 55

“Cut and cover” method, 89, 105

Dai Nippon Kidō, 242, 243

Daimyō, 14, 15, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 42, 63, 69, 91, 95, 99, 111, 112, 229

Dalny (Dairen), 215, 217

De Long, Charles Egbert, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48– 50, 52–55, 60, 61, 101, 123

de Rosen, Baron, 214

Deshima, 18, 21, 22, 26

Diak, John, 64, 87, 105

Diplomacy (railway’s role in), 238

Disorganization, 74, 88

Dogo Railway, 145, 196, 202

Double tracking, 71, 72, 83, 88, 100, 101, 116, 121, 136, 143, 147, 172, 174, 228

Dual-gauge, 141

Dubs, 25, 68, 69, 109, 114, 116, 135, 137, 140, 173, 176, 191, 192, 217

Eastern Chinese Railway, 213

Ekiben, 115

Electric-powered interurban railways, 234, 235, 237

Employed youth, 185, 202

Ende-Boeckmann, 181

Endo Kinsuke, 41

English Hatoba, 62

English motive power and rolling stock, 90

Enoshima Denki Tetsudō, 237

Esslingen locomotive works, 164

Extension, Kyōto to Ōtsu, 102

Extension, Nagahama to Shunjō, 107

Extra-territoriality, 27, 94

Fairlie, Robert F., 66, 67, 69

Fare, initial, 84

Firemen, promotion of, 106

First dining car in Japan, 188

First electric lighting, 184

First electric railway equipment in Japan, 167

First locomotive built in Japan, 167

First locomotive in Japan, 65

First Period Construction Programme, 160

First railway abandoned in Japan, 101

First refrigerator cars in Japan, 234

First sleeping cars in Japan, 189

First standard locomotive class, 247

First telegraph line linking Nagasaki to Shanghai, 79

First train trip, Emperor’s, 79

First tunneling, 87

First-class travel, 223

Freight hauling, 187

Fuji, The (Express Train), 189

Fukuhaku Densha Kidō, 158

Funeral train, Imperial, 181, 184, 252, 253

Furuichi Kohi, 232

Fusetsu-sho, 18, 22, 23

Gan’etsu Tetsudō, 111

Gare de l’Est, 69

Gaspar Affair, 101, 106

Gauge conversion, 232, 233

Gifu, 94, 107, 161, 164, 223

Global through-service, 239

Glover, Thomas Blake, 26, 27, 29, 30, 41

Godai Tomoatsu, 29

Goodwill tour (Crown Prince), 238

Gōtō Shimpei, Baron, 226, 232, 239

Great Flood of August 1910, 245

Great Nōbi Earthquake, 161, 164, 166

Griffis, William Elliot, 81

Gützlaff, Dr. Charles, 57

Gyoki, 11

Gyusha kidō, 202

H.T.T.K.K., 124

Hakatawan Tetsudō, 156

Hakkaidō Tankō Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha, see H.T.T.K.K.

Hakodate, 26, 37, 39, 41, 44, 45, 53, 54, 125, 126, 128, 164, 212, 250

Hakone Tozan Tetsudō, 237

Hammamatsu, 128

Hankai Tetsudō, 50, 141, 144

Hara Sensaburō, 82, 83

Harland and Hollingsworth, 122

Harris Treaty, 26

Harris, Townsend, 26

Hart, Thomas, 83

Harz Mountain Railway, 164

Hasegawa Kinsuke, 103

Hatsuse Tetsudō, 202

Hayashi Daigakonokami, 23

Heating, carriage 122, 186

Highashi Kuze Chiujio, 44

Hiogo (or Hyogo), 48, 90, 144, 145

Hirai Seijiro, 232

Hiraoka Hiroshi, 191

Hiraoka Kojo, 191

Hohenzollern, 151, 153, 154

Hokkaidō, 26, 37, 44, 53, 92, 112, 116, 120–129, 131, 135, 137–139, 141, 143, 151, 153, 154, 159, 164, 183, 184, 186, 212, 220, 229, 234, 237, 239, 240, 244, 250

Hokkaidō Coal Mine and Railway Company, Inc., 124

Hoku’etsu Tetsudō, 111

Hokuriku Line, 165, 170, 172

Holtham, Edmund Gregory, 72, 73, 88, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99–103, 105, 119

Homma Eiichirō, 164

Horses, scarcity of, 12, 23, 69

IJGR, 63, 92, 99, 191, 240

Immigration, 120

Imperial Chinese Railway, 213

Imperial Japanese Government Railways, see IJGR

Import laws, 247

Improvements for workers, IJGR’s steps toward, 237

Improvements, service, 145, 183, 185, 186, 188

Inari Station, 102

Inauguration, Tokaidō line, 132

Influence, military, 159

Innovation, 59, 103, 144, 145, 167, 183–185, 191, 196, 233

Inoue Kaoru, 41

Inoue Masaru, 40, 41, 50, 64, 80, 92, 99, 153, 167, 191, 225, 239

inter-locking signal device, first mechanical, 128

Inyō-Renraku line, 196, 198, 211

Iron Duke, 21, 26, 27, 84

Ishiba Station, 102

Itō Hirobumi, 41, 42, 45, 49, 177

Iwakura Tomomi, 45–47

Iyo Tetsudō, 147, 151, 202

Izanagi and Izanami, 73

Jinsha kidō, 202–204

Jishin, 92, 94, 123

Jones, T. M. Rymer, 103–105

Kadono Chōkyūrō, 109, 113, 186, 188

Kaitakushi, 120, 121, 123

Kamaishi railway, 116, 120, 141

Kanagawa Treaty, 26

Karasumori, 250, 251

Karuizawa station, 168

Karuizawa, 110, 114, 164, 168, 196

Kashima Shosuke, 61, 62, 192, 193, 224

Katō Takaaki, 228

Katsura River, bridge over, 92

Kawasaki, 19171, 77, 84, 191, 194, 248, 250

Kayama Yezaemon, 23

Kayanuma Tankō Tetsudō, 26

Keiben tetsudō, 152, 163, 203, 240

Kensha (dog car) tetsudō, 203

Kiso River, 107, 110, 164, 170

Kisokaidō, 110

Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, 34

Kobe shops, 91, 106, 107, 140, 167, 169, 176

Kōbu Tetsudō, 92, 153, 170, 233, 234, 242

Kōbudaigakkō, 64, 89, 109, 123, 166

Kōbushō (Ministry of Public Works), 64– 66, 76, 80, 90, 101, 102, 153, 171

Kogisei-Yoseijo, Railway Training Institute 102

Kojiki (record of ancient matters), 73

Kōmei Emperor, 39

Koshin Tetsudō, 153

Kotō Line (East Lake Line), 127

Kōzu, 128, 204, 210, 236, 237

Kumamoto Keiben Tetsudō, 163

Kumanotaira Station, 168

Kunisawa Yoshinaga, 103

Kure Tetsudō, 213

Kyōto Station, 94, 96, 97

Kyōto Tetsudō, 177, 196, 199

Kyōto-shi Tetsudō, 177

Kyūshū Tetsudō, 145, 149, 151, 153–163, 202, 217, 220

Labor costs, rising, 191

Labor strike, 191–193

Laidong Peninsula, Lease of, 213

Lake Baikal, 48, 217

Lavatories, 84, 122, 123, 129, 131, 164, 170, 211

Lay, Horatio Nelson, 49, 53, 57

58–62, 64– 66, 72, 79

Lay-Osborn Flotilla, 58, 60

Levee-building, 87

Levyssohn, Opperhoofd Joseph Henry, 23

Light Railways Law, 240

Line improvements, 100

Lunch Box Salesmen, Union of, 115, 189

Machida Goi, 44

Maejima, Baron, 55, 61

Maiko, 147, 149, 155, 185

Mallet compound, 193, 248

Matsukata Masayoshi, 111

Matsumoto Sohichirō, 167, 194

Matsumoto, 154, 167, 194, 232

Meiji (Emperor), 39, 40, 43, 59, 80, 96, 97, 181, 192, 251, 252

Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, 69

Miike coal mine, 141

Mikado-type, 190

Militarism, 226

Minami Kiyoshi, 127

Ministry of Civil Affairs and Finance, 61

Minō-Arima Denki Tetsudō, 235

Mischenko raid, 219, 220

Mitajiri, 146, 150, 186, 251

Mito Tetsudō, 202

Miyagawa Denki Tetsudō, 235

Moji, 149–151, 153–156, 159, 216, 250

Morel, Edmund, 64, 66, 68, 70–72, 74, 87, 116, 123

Mōri Shigesuke (“Jusuke”), 119

Muroran, 127–129, 244

Musha Manka, 92, 103

Mutsuhito, (Meiji Emperor) 34, 39

Nagahama, 103, 106, 107, 127

Nagano shop facilities, 111

Nagoya, 70, 107, 110, 127, 128, 137–139, 153, 161, 170, 181, 185, 195, 196, 210, 212, 221, 223, 243, 250–252

Nakahama Manjirō, 23

Nakamigawa Hikojiro, 143, 144

Nakasendō Route, 110

Nakasendō Tetsudō Kosai, 110, 125

Namba terminal, 144

Nameraishi Tunnel, 150

Naniwa Railway, 202

Nanyo Railway, 202

Naoetsu–Ueda line, 110, 111, 164, 165

Nara Tetsudō, 195, 196, 202

Narrow gauge, 66

Narrow gauge, pioneer lines, 67

Nasmyth, Wilson, 137, 139

Nationalization, 225, 226

Nicholas II, Tsar, 213, 214

Nihonbashi, 115, 119

Nippon Sharyo, 191

Nippon Tetsudō, 50, 92, 109, 111–116, 118–120, 125, 131, 141, 143, 144, 146, 154, 165, 170, 174, 181, 184, 185, 187, 189–193, 198, 200, 202, 203, 220, 225, 243, 245, 246, 250

Nishinomiya, 89, 100, 174

Nishio Tetsudō, 243

Nōbi Plain, 107, 138

Noge Kaigan, 62, 63

Nomura Yakichi, 41

Norris locomotive, Perry’s demonstration of, 23, 24, 27, 29

Numbering scheme of 1909, 229

October 14, 1872, see Opening Odate Station, 175

Odawara Basha Tetsudō, 237

Odawara Denki, 204, 236, 237

Ōgaki, 107, 109, 110, 120, 125, 127, 128, 181

Ogasawara Iki no Kami, 32, 33, 44, 50, 53

Oi Yosuke, 44, 53

Ōiso Station, 134

Okayama, 149

Ōki (Takatō), 42

Oldbury Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, 69, 234

Ōmiya shop facilities, 114

Ōmuta, 161

Onomichi, 149, 154, 156, 196

Opening (official), 79

Opperhoofd (chief), 18, 22, 23

Opposition to railway building, Army’s, 79

Oriental Bank, The, 59–64, 94

Ōsaka Kisha Seizo Goshi-Kaisha, 191

Ōsaka Railway, 202

Ōsakayama Tunnel, 102, 103, 109

Osborne, Captain Sherard, R.N., 58, 60

Oshukaidō, 114

Ōta Tetsudō, 202

Ōta Yoshimatsu, 248

Otani Station, 102

Ōtsu Line, official opening, 104

Ōtsu Station, 102

Ōū line, 170, 173, 175, 177, 211

O-yatoi-gaikōkujin, 63

Palmer, Frederick, 215

Parkes, Sir Harry Smith, 30–32, 34, 36, 37, 41, 43, 46–50, 53–55, 57, 60, 61, 64, 65, 68, 72, 76, 96, 97, 137

Passport, internal, 26, 134, 195, 196

Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith, 14, 22–27, 29, 31, 47

Pinto, Fernão Mendez 12

Pole, Dr. William, M. Inst. C. E., 62, 66

Poronai Tetsudō, 120, 121, 123, 124, 131

Porter Locomotive Works (Pittsburgh), 122

Portman, Anton L. C., 30–34, 44–¬50, 52¬–55, 61, 144, 233, 244

Pownall, Charles, 166, 235, 237

Private Railway Law No. 64, 202

Proposal for Railway Administration, 225, 240

Proposal to Nationalize Private Lines, 181

Purcell, Gervaise, 116

Purcell, Theobald, 74, 116, 185

Putyatin, E. V., 22

Railway Agency, 64, 153, 158, 230, 232, 240

Railway Bureau move to Kōbe, 87

Railway Bureau, 40, 64, 65, 74, 76, 87, 88, 92, 94, 99, 100, 102, 106, 109, 110, 113– 115, 121, 125, 143, 154, 158, 159, 167, 191, 194

Railway Council, 158, 177, 181, 225

Railway Mania, 153, 154

Railway technology exporter, Japan as a, 229

Realm, Railways effects throughout, 187

Red caps, 183, 168, 223

Re-gauging, 92, 174, 202, 207, 214, 216, 217, 230

Rice, Elisha E., 45, 53, 54

River levels, elevated, 87

Roads, inadequacy of, 46, 47, 187, 198, 230

Roches, Léon, 30–34, 36, 37, 55

Rogers, 135, 138, 185

Rolling stock, larger standard, 233

Roosevelt, US President Theodore, 201, 220

Rumschöttel, Hermann, 145, 151

Running rights, 114, 200, 234

Russia, 21, 22, 66, 83, 112, 120, 129, 170, 171, 181, 197, 212–217, 219, 220, 232, 238, 239, 251

Russo-Japanese War, 125, 129, 185, 197, 200, 201, 211, 213, 214, 219, 221, 223, 225, 226, 229, 232, 233, 238

Ryomo Railways, 202

Saga Kidō, 243

Sakhalin Islands, 22, 112, 170

Sakura, The (Cherry Blossom Express), 189

Sakuragicho, 62, 70, 128, 132, 238

San’yo Tetsudō, 109, 131, 141, 143–145, 147, 149–151, 157, 172, 183–185, 186, 197, 198, 213

Sanders, Thomas Henry, 242, 244–246

Sangu Tetsudō (Shrine-bound railway), 196

Sanjo Sanetomi, 46, 47

Sannomiya Station, 140

Sasago Tunnel, 170, 210, 212

Satake Masaaki, 103

Satsuma Rebellion, 94, 97, 99, 102, 109, 110-112, 160, 176

Sawa Nobuyoshi, 44, 46

Schenectady, 136, 138, 139, 156, 157, 160, 164, 185, 191, 217

Schmidt superheater, 247, 248

Schröder and Co., 59

Scott, Thomas, 120

Seating arrangements, 132

Second Period Construction Programme, 160

Second railway mania, 181

Security precaution (for Emperor), lack of 97

Sekigahara, battle of, 15

Self-sufficiency, car building, 92

Self-sufficiency, national, 247

Sendai, 34–36, 131, 141, 144, 198, 243

Sengokubune, 12

Seoul-Pusan Railway, 111, 216, 238

Settlement, government’s policy of encouraging, 121

Shareholder payment formula, 228

Shay locomotives, 221

Shervinton, Thomas, 102

Shibusawa Eiichi 111, 199

Shikoku, 131, 145–147, 149, 151, 152, 164, 183, 189, 196, 197, 199, 202, 203, 220, 240, 243

Shimada Nobutake, 103

Shimbashi line, 35, 55, 70, 72–76, 83, 87–90, 99–102, 105, 106, 109, 111, 114, 115, 123, 124, 132, 177, 196, 200, 234, 240, 246

Shimbashi Station, 39, 51, 59, 60, 62–64, 66, 70, 72, 78, 79, 81, 83, 92, 119, 204, 212, 215, 218, 250, 251

Shimbashi works, 70

Shimbashi-Shimonoseki Special Express, 189, 226, 228, 229, 244, 246

Shimizu Tunnel, 210, 212

Shimonoseki Indemnity, 29, 53, 57, 60

Shimonoseki, 27, 29, 95, 97, 141, 146, 149– 151, 153, 173, 176, 186, 188, 189, 196, 216, 217, 233, 250

Shin’etsu line, 111, 115, 165, 167, 211, 235

Shinkansen, 68, 132, 224, 233

Shinonoi Line, 211

Shintatsu Tetsudō, 243

Shitetsu (private sector railway), 114, 202, 240, 250

Shōgun, 14–18, 22, 23, 25–27, 29–37, 39, 40, 46, 47, 49, 50, 52, 57, 95, 134, 166, 196, 202, 203

Sino-Japanese War (1894), 67, 144, 172, 174, 176, 181, 187, 193, 202, 213, 216, 229

Smith, Walter McKersie, 91

Sonno Jōi movement, 29, 31, 33, 94

Speeches, political, 84

Standards, passenger carriage, 131

Steam railcars, 233

Steamers, IJGR-owned, 103

Stephenson steam locomotive, 21, 90, 109, 173

Stop work order, 94, 99, 128

Support for railway building, military, 99

Takashima Kaemon, 42, 63

Takashimacho, 63

Tanaka Hisashige, 22

Taylor, Charles, 165, 198, 202

Tempō Famine of 1833–1836, 22, 46

Temporary service inauguration (Tōkyō), 77

Terajima Munemori, 48, 54

Terauchi Masatake, 219

Tetsudō Okusoku (Surmises about Railways), 55

Tetsudō Rentai (Railway Regiment), 214– 217, 219

“The Bluff,” 63

The Railway Song (Tetsudō Shōka) 188

Tokaidō line, 36, 43, 52, 62, 128, 132, 134– 136, 138, 139, 143, 163, 185, 188, 195, 196, 210, 220, 223, 224, 226, 233, 236– 238, 243, 251

Tokaidō, 18, 25, 32, 47, 60–63, 73, 75, 76, 95, 127

Tokaidō, re-routing decision, 127

Tokugawa Iemochi, 27, 33, 52

Tokugawa Ieyasu, 15, 94

Tokugawa rail scheme, 29

Tokugawa Yoshinobu (Keiki), 30, 33, 34, 49, 50, 52

Tōkyō Akebono Shimbun, 106

Tōkyō Basha Tetsudō, 115, 119

Tōkyō Metropolitan Railway, 251

Tōkyō Tetsudō Kaisha 111

Top railway post, constant change in, 230

Torii Tunnel, 212

Tourism industry, 196

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 15

Traffic volume (1903), 211

Trans-Siberian Railway, 48, 171, 212–214, 217, 238

Travel, average rate of before 1870, 11

Treatment Improvement Association, (Taigū Kaizen Kumiai), 193

Treaty of Portsmouth, 220, 238

Treaty ports, 26, 27, 37, 84, 95, 134

Trevithick, Francis, 64, 74, 92, 154, 164, 169, 186, 191, 193, 236, 237

Trevithick, Richard (Grandfather), 21

Trevithick, Richard (Grandson), 64, 92, 167, 169, 170, 191, 248

Trial locomotives, 247

Triple Intervention, 181, 214

Tsuchizaki, 175

Tsushima, 22, 213, 216, 217, 220, 239

Tunnel collapse, 104, 105

Turbine, water-powered, 106

Urban transportation planning, 103

Usui Line, 110, 127, 164, 168, 170, 235, 236, 239

Uwajima Tetsudō, 151

Van Valkenburgh, Robert, 31, 33–37, 39, 42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 53–55

Vandalism, 101

Vladivostok, 48, 112, 120, 171, 213, 214, 217, 220, 238

Wages, 105

Watarai Toshiharu, 228

Westwood, Carle L., 31

White, George Preston, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69

Wirgman, Charles, 76, 79, 80

Wright, Benjamin, 106

Yamagata Aritomo, Prince, 110

Yamao Yozo, 41, 65, 80, 87

Yamashina Station, 102

Yanagase Tunnel, 106, 107

Yatoi monthly salary, 105

Yatoi, 34, 64, 66, 71, 76, 89–92, 101–103, 105, 106, 109, 116, 123, 166, 171, 191, 221, 229

Yawata Steel Mill, 156, 199

“Year without a summer,” 21

Yokkaichi, 107

Yokohama Station, 62, 70, 78, 83, 128, 132, 215

Yokokawa, 125, 164–166

Yoshikawa Sanjirō, 165

Zenkō locomotive, 114