Nete Mo Samete Mo Kokutetsu Man Tsuma Ga Kataru, Otto to Tenkin Kazoku No 20 Nen (Kotsu Shimbun Sha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] In 1967, I gave birth to my first son in Takamatsu, Shikoku, where my husband had been transferred. A steam locomotive was still running next to the dormitory by the railroad tracks. Since then, she has repeatedly moved to a new place, sometimes for four years at the most and sometimes for a year at the shortest. The story is about her husband, who was busy working day and night, returning home in the middle of the night only to have the phone ring and have to turn around and go back to work; her children, who were born and grew up in the place where she was assigned; her interactions with her husband's boss and his wife; and the personal life in the JNR apartment building. The work of the JNR employees and the memories of their families who supported them are told along with the historical landscape of the time when JNR was forced to undergo reforms. A story of "that era" spun by the wife of a Japan National Railways employee.

昭和42(1967)年、夫の転勤先の四国・高松で長男を産んだ。線路際の宿舎の横を蒸気機関車が現役で走っていた。以来、長くて4年、短いときは1年で引っ越しを繰り返す―。夜中に帰ってきたとたん電話が鳴って職場に引き返すなど昼も夜もなく仕事に奔走する夫、赴任地で生まれ成長していく子どもたち、夫の上司夫妻との交流や国鉄アパートでの人間模様...。国鉄職員の仕事ぶりとそれを支えた家族の記憶が、国鉄が変革を迫られていく時代風景とともに語られていく。国鉄マンの妻が紡ぐ、“あの時代”の物語。