The HIRAOKA WORKS and a founder Mr. Hiroshi HIRAOKA

Abstract

Mr. Hiroshi HIRAOKA (1856-1934 is a famous Japanese railway engineer and he founded HIRAOKA WORKS in 1889. This WORKS is well known as passenger car and freight car builder in the Meiji period of Japan. These rolling stock supplied for not only Imperial Government Railway of Japan (IGRJ) but also many other private railways as Nippon Railway, Sangu Raiway, Tobu Railway, and so on. In this report, 1) His life, 2) Course of railway engineer, 3) Outline and short history of HIRAOKA WORKS, are described.