The RM class was China's last steam passenger design. It was a late 1950s development of the successful pre-war SL6 pacific, which was adopted as the standard passenger class post liberation. The ... (more)

The Mikado JF 2422, probably built in 1956, was one of the later members of the class. From the early 1980s to the early 1990s it was used as the shed pilot at Changchun and was paired with an unu... (more)

Back in 1989, steam was still king in the Changchun shed. The DFH3 diesel locomotives however started slowly to take over some of the traffic. DFH stands for "dongfang hong" or "the east is red". ... (more)