In 2012, SY type steam locomotives were still used regularly in the Beitai steelworks. As part of a trip to China with the tour operator Tanago, we were allowed to photograph the operation relativ... (more)
On the 10th of January 2012, a train dumps a load of molten slag at the Beitai Steel Works in NE China. The site was first visited by foreign steam photographers in 2002. Since that time the manag... (more)
A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill. Here SY1561, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1987 (!... (more)
A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill where SY0946, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1975, w... (more)
A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the slag pit of the Beitai steel mill in China´s Liaoning province. Immediately after ... (more)
