KD6 #487 thunders across the Wang River Bridge with a special passenger train. While the Tiefa Railway has been the KD6's home for the past 8 years, the locomotive is a rarity in China. It is the ... (more)

JS #8194 storms up the last stretch of 2% grade out of the Opencast Pit Mine.

KD6 #487 storms up the hill at Taiping Shan and will soon enter the only tunnel on the Tiefa Railway system.

Sunset in Tiefa finds KD6 2-8-0 #487 leading a passnger train back towards the city of Diaobingshan.

SY 1772 leads a special passenger train across the Wang River Middle Bridge on the Tiefa Coal Railway. This railway one of the last railways in China to feature steam on passenger trains is locate... (more)

JS #8194 thunders through the Big Curve deep in the Opencast coal mine at Sandaoling. This section of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway functions just like a conveyor system, with loaded trains sto... (more)

JS #8358 shove hard against a loaded coal train leaving Erjing. This heavy 40-car train was topped and tailed, with another JS 2-8-2 straining at the front of this train. The sight of these two m... (more)

JS #8358 struggles to move 40 loaded coal cars up the grade out of the Erjing Mine railyard. Fortunately for the former-mainline 2-8-2, the apex of the grad is in a few meters and soon the train w... (more)

Silhouetted against the rising sun, an unknown JS 2-8-2 leads a loaded coal train from Erjing Mine to South Station, where it will be transferred to the National Railway. Sandaoling Coal Mine Rail... (more)

Fighting for every foot forward, JS 8194 climbs out of the Opencast Pit Mine of Sandaoling, China. This heavy coal train is bound for the coal washery just 1.5 miles ahead but over 200 feet higher... (more)

Deep in the Open Pit Coal Mine of Sandaoling, JS 8225 storms upgrade past JS 8077. JS 8225 is bound for the coal washery but first must surmount a grueling 2%+ grade that will challenge the massiv... (more)

State Railway of Thailand #1020 throttles up past the manually operate Semaphore Signal on the outskirts of Sisaket, Thailand. This train is a local train, so it will stop at nearly every minor st... (more)

The most beautiful locomotive in the world, Southern Pacific #4449 storms along Puget Sound and through Steilacoom, WA. The world-famous 4-8-4 was bound for its home in Portland, OR after spending... (more)

Tacoma Rail SD45 rebuild #3001 leads a rare passenger train through the neighborhoods south of downtown Tacoma. This train was a special for the 2011 NRHS convention and was bound for Eatonville t... (more)

Simpson Timber Company #1200 leads a train of empties into a clearing in the forest on the way to the Dry Sort Yard at Mill Five. Soon this train will be paralleling the Shelton-Matlock Road on th... (more)