Freighttrain going west through Lanzhou - a chinese town with millions of inhabitants - and often wrapped up in smog. Since 1978 app. 1.600 locos of class SS3 has been built
The last day in Taiwan , this is one of my few shots which reach RP.net standard ...
The new Qinghai-Tibet railway is 1.142 km (710 miles) long. A total of 960 km track (600 miles) are laid on permafrost - that's soil frozen all year, except for a thin layer in the surface that wi... (more)
Engine JF1-304 was very famous in China, because Chairman Mao had his portrait on the front. 304 was built 1941 in Japan.
My first trip to Taiwan . TRA new streamlined tiling EMU "Taroko Express" .
A Manzhouli - Harbin passenger approaches Zhalainuer, behind the usual DF4 diesel. The foreground tracks belong to the steam-operated Jalainur Opencast Railway.
A lone SY occupies the workshops at Diqiao - a contrast to a previous visit where several SYs were in various stages of rebuilding. Unless work has been transferred to another location, this could... (more)
New T818 on the first day of the 6th Speed-Up of Chinese National Railway .
While I am waiting for the 2 hours delayed KCR X908 , the afternoon CNR Southbound T815 Intercity Through Train rolls by .
Passengers and pigs disembark from a Shibanxi bound train.
Steam hauled coal from Huang Cun passes the mine at Yue Jin. The steam freight has another 5km or so to run before the line's terminus at Shibanxi.
The Weiyuan Coal Railway is only about three miles long, and runs to a truck reload. It exists on a day to day basis only because local village elders will not let the coal company drive coal tru... (more)
A morning Chinese high speed train cruises in Hong Kong .
Just another Tunnel Four shot.
