Iraqi State Railways PC Class (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The PC class was a type of standard gauge passenger steam locomotive on Iraqi State Railways. In 1940 the ISR completed the Baghdad Railway between Baghdad and Tel Kotchek on the border with Syria, enabling the Taurus Express to start running between Istanbul and Baghdad. In 1941 Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns built four pacific locomotives for ISR to haul the new through service on the Iraqi section of its route. RSH streamlined the PC class to resemble British passenger express pacifics, with a nose rounded like the LMS Coronation Class and valancing styled like the LNER Class A4.