This 64 page A4 second volume of Narrow Gauge Railways of Taiwan contains information and photographs which have come to light since the author's now sold out Volume 1 was published in 2017. It features chapters on:
- The origins of narrow gauge railways in Taiwan
- Foreign trading houses help the network grow
- Cypresses and cableways - the logging railways of the East Coast
- Some lesser industrial lines – salt and water
- Ambitions unfulfilled - The rise and fall of locomotive building in Taiwan
- Reorientation and revitalisation
There are also six Appendices:
- Post-War Steam Locomotives supplied to the Taiwan Sugar Corporation
- Steam Locomotives of the Alishan Forest Railway
- Motive power of the Lotung Forest Railway and Taipingshan logging lines
- Timetables from the Lotung Forest Railway
- Steam Locomotives of the East Coast (Huatung) line
- Maps of the principal logging systems in Taiwan
PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU BUY THIS BOOK, YOU ARE PRE-ORDERING IT - IT IS EXPECTED BACK FROM THE PRINTERS IN MID TO LATE OCTOBER