Two China Rail workers unload blocks of frozen fish from conventional boxcars. With daytime highs in the mid-teens---no refrigeration needed!
The addition of a pilot, taller stack and larger cab creates a totally new look for the US Army veteran. This USATC S160 still found work in 1986 at the Fushun open cast mine.
A track worker shoulders his pick axe and watches the JS pulled freight thunder by.
Smoke deflector equipped JS Mikado 5162 powers a mainline freight out of Anshan.
QJ hauled freight on the mainline grade leaving Anshan.
A single QJ hauled mixed freight tackles the mainline grade leaving Anshan.
A relatively rare (even for 1986) SY 2-6-2 takes a break from switching the Anshan steelworks.
A just delivered export model GE C36-7 pulls a long mixed freight out of Anshan. The dropped nose specified by China Rail likely improved what was already good cab visibility. In the photographer'... (more)
A QJ adorned and used for Chairman Mao's funeral train simmers at Harbin. At the time of this photo Mao had been dead for years, his polices discredited and the special loco relegated to pool frei... (more)
A BR95 pulls a mixed freight out of Saalfeld, East Germany. The fireman has just cranked up the oil jets to maintain steam for the upcoming climb to the hill town of Probstzella.
Former RF&P 101 assembles its train.
The daily loaded sand train from the mine at Gore passes one of the many cattle farms along its rural Shenandoah Valley route.
Running light to pick up a load.
Southbound Auto Train departs Lorton.
An SD-45 leads three, four-axle GEs on a northbound TOFC hot shot approaching Acca Yard. The train has just crossed the James River.
