QJ #3472 is storming through the Jiamusi East Junction with a long freight train.

Cold and snowy day at the Jiamusi shed in Northern China. The QJ #6898 is being prepared for her next duty.

Cold and snowy day at the Jiamusi shed in Northern China. The QJ #3472 is being prepared for her next duty.

3 SY locos are seen at work at Betai steelworks in 2003. This is a color photo!

Only locomotive I saw with this scheme.Chairman Mao would be proud. This locomotive is about to be switched out.

I took an hour away from photographing the steam locos on the steelworks line to visit Chengde diesel loco shed in January 2001. Locos from classes DF4, DF5 (orange) and BJ (far right) are present... (more)

2-10-2, QJ 2614 heads an engineering train at Jingdezhen in 1993. The temporary huts were being used by track workers

A confused local tries to work out what I am photographing. He kept looking beyond the train for something more interesting! 2-8-2, JS 8226 passes on it`s way to Gucheng.

Plenty of parcel traffic in evidence at Lanzhou. SS7c-0044 has just arrived with a passenger train in 2005.

Doubleheaded QJ 2-10-2's cross the JiTong line's iconic Simingyi viaduct. This perspective on the bridge shows off the marvelous civil engineering of this relatively new line.

Doubleheaded QJ 2-10-2's head a freight approaching the summit tunnel on the JiTong line. Steam had about a year left before the last major mainline steam operation in the world was dieselized.

JS 2-8-2 No 8223 takes on coal at Gucheng. The coal is loaded from tubs on the adjacent narrow gauge track.

I took an hour away from photographing the steam locos on the steelworks line to visit Chengde diesel loco shed in January 2001. Here is the classic China Rail diesel, the DF4. Production of this ... (more)

Too rare to see the diesel locomotive drag a passenger train in the electrified railway.The blue train cabin is a specialty livery of china which called“Fulong”.