抄録
The pacific type passenger locometive (type 18900) has been a typical one of locomotives for express trains on the main lines of Japanese Government Railways. In order to meet the requirement for larger tractive power of locomotive, as a result of the introduction or steel cars, causing the increased weight of the train, the three cylinder pacific type locomotive (type C53) has been newly designed, constructed and put in the above mentioned service. In this paper, the writer treats the characteristics and special features in the construction of this new type locomotive.
