This Chinese diesel locomotive cannot deny its American origin. Over the years, China has imported a number of foreign diesel locomotives. The most successful are certainly the ND5 class diesel el... (more)

At the end of the 90's a few PL2's were still operational at the Anshan steel works. Number 237 is seen here shunting. The last PL2 in service was thought to be Anshan steel works' PL2 244 which w... (more)

The YJ design is based on pre-war PL2 class 2-6-2, itself derived from the JF6 2-8-2, the predecessor of the SY class mikado. A total of 202 YJ locos were produced between 1958 and 1961. The last ... (more)

The Bo-Bo-Bo number 30 is an electric locomotive type EL1 built by LEW-Hennigsdorf in the GDR.

This Chinese diesel locomotive cannot deny its American origin. Over the years, China has imported a number of foreign diesel locomotives. The most successful are certainly the ND5 class diesel el... (more)

The invisible train! I can`t even guess at the loco class. A train returning pilgrims from the final day of the Biswa Ijtema at Tongi heads for Dhaka Kamlapur. We were joined by a TV crew,here, t... (more)

2704 negotiates the complex, dual gauge trackwork as it arrives at Dhaka Kamlapur with the Joyantika Express, the 0730 from Sylhet.

Three QJ's are being prepared for their next duty in the Yebaishou shed.

A southbound train nears the summit of Jingpeng Pass.

Metre gauge MLW 2306 on the Vaoal Express, 0020 Bahadurabad to Dhaka, passes slums lying very close to both sides of the tracks at Karwan Bazar, Dhaka.

The most crowded train in the world? Every January the Biswa Ijtema event takes place in Tongi, north of Dhaka, attracting around 3 million people! On it`s third and final day the trains taking de... (more)

The RM class was China's last steam passenger design. It was a late 1950s development of the successful pre-war SL6 pacific, which was adopted as the standard passenger class post liberation. The ... (more)

The Mikado JF 2422, probably built in 1956, was one of the later members of the class. From the early 1980s to the early 1990s it was used as the shed pilot at Changchun and was paired with an unu... (more)