Fushun Mining Railway ZG-150 switches at Guchengzi Washery before returning to the Opencast Pit for another load of coal.
This locomotive was built in China in the late 1970's but the design is based on an East German design, the EL-1. The EL-1 was produced in large numbers by the DDR electric locomotive combine, LEW in Hennigsdorf. Many of these locomotives were sold to the People's Republic of China in the 1950's as part of the Eastern Bloc's contribution to rebuilding war-torn China. After the Sino-Soviet split, Chian could no longer purchase locomotives from Soviet satelite states, so the PRC copied and improved the EL-1 producing this locomotive, the ZG-150. A simple, and hardy design, the ZG-150 was produced in large numbers in the 1970's and 1980's and many work around China to this day.
