Climbing to Shangdian summit

After waiting hours for a hopefully dramatic late afternoon view of a working uphill train and getting skunked, we were about to board our vans to leave when all of a sudden we heard the clank cla... (more)

Hard to believe this was only five years ago.

It's about 8 o'clock and 20 below zero Celsius (- 4 F) when two QJ with a heavy freight are on the first leg from Jingpeng to the Pass.

After 40 minutes of hard climbing, the train seen near Jingpeng in this shot emerges from Tunnel 4. The climbing on the part... (more)

A pair of QJs hoist a perfect exhaust plume into the cool morning air as they accelerate away from Jingpeng, building speed for the gradients and curves that lie ahead.

From this high vantage point, the twist and turns of all three levels of the eastern side of the Jingpeng Pass can be seen, laid out like the work of a particularly imaginative modeller! Galadesit... (more)