A welcome feature of the Shuangyashan system was long, steam hauled, commuter trains. Here QJ 6897 lifts an 11 coach train away from Shuangyashan at Changan.
A mother walks her son home from school, through the sidings at Qingqihai as SY 1198 shunts. Qingqihai is the centre of operations for the Datong Coal Railway.
DF12 0025 was pulling some of tankers, from Huabei oilfield to Renqiu station. DF12 is the last type of Chinese Dongfeng series diesel locomotives, made by Ziyang locomotive works.
JS 8288 moves off the servicing pit at Hechi, having had it`s fire cleaned. A group of locals prepare to pounce on it`s ashes to claim any unburned fragments of coal. These they will take home for... (more)
A tiny 4 wheeled electric loco goes about it`s business at Fuli mine.
SY1085 climbs out of the big hole at Pingzhuang. Coal trains are brought out of the mine by electric locos, but steam locos work cranes, as here, to move the track as the size of the hole increase... (more)
A Japanese manufactured meter-gauge locomotive, completed in 1921.
A tractor waits for SY 0758 to pass over a level crossing at Pingdingshan. This mining system also used QJ and JS steam locos. The SYs generally hauled the passenger trains, and a few coal trains,... (more)