Benxi steelworks' fleet of SY 2-8-2's has (had?) its own numbering system. A bit of detective work shows No.716 to be the former SY 0578, a 1972 product of Tangshan works. On a beautiful, crisp bu... (more)

As one gets closer to the steel furnaces, a mass of overhead wires, gantries, cranes and pipes, make photography 'challenging'. Benxi's fleet of SY's have been re-numbered in a 7xx series. Here, d... (more)

Benxi steelworks is set on a broad open plain ringed by hills. It is almost unimaginably huge by any standards, extending as far as the eye could see. Expansion of the complex was continuing at a ... (more)