HOTBOX! One of the spoil wagon axle boxes has caught fire as another empty spoil train pushes out of the yard at Ping'An Coal Mine.
SY #1395 storms out of WuLong Mine on a sunny May morning with a train full of coal bound for the National Railway. This train has only a short 5 mile trip behind SY1395, as it will be interchange... (more)
Steam over steam! SY1210 prepares to tip its flyash on the high tipping road of the Fuxin spoil dump, while on one of the lower roads SY1460 waits for its train to be unloaded and to return down... (more)
SY 1319 heads the first loaded spoil train of the morning shift up to the top of the tip at Fuxin.
Fuxin Coal. double steam
On a cold autumn morning in 2010, SY 1378 storms past the interlocking tower and through a grade crossing at the Wulong Mine. This train is bound for the spoil tip just 4 kilometers away but over ... (more)
The night before this photo, it had been the first frost in the Erzgebirge.
Locally famous Red Star JS class 2-8-2 returns from a decidedly unglamorous mine tailings dump run.
Every morning 5-6 steam locomotives of the Fuxin Coal mining railway gather near of the stabling points to receive the necessary treatments and wait for their new duties after the crews have chang... (more)
SY1319, SY988 and SY1378 at the servicing point by the apartment blocks at Fuxin in the late afternoon.
Sunset over the last steamers of this world.
7am and still virtually dark on a freezing foggy November morning in Fuxin, China. SY Class No 1378 is ready with a loaded train of coal. Once scenes like this were common all over the world certa... (more)
Dawn with an SY Class descending the incline from the spoil tip
