Inside the boiler of a 2-8-2 JS steamlocomotive, with tubes removed. View from the smokebox to the firebox. The boiler is stabeld outside the Dongbolizhan workshop.
Chinese track workers near the Erjing coal mine. They correct the track position with a straightening machine after the foreman has measured the track with a measuring rod and spirit level.
Only rarely do individual coal trains travel to another unloading point just south of Nanzhan for unloading, probably according to the quality of the coal. One of the cars is about to be tipped he... (more)