JS 8167 hammers uphill through the sweeping curve, nicknamed Red Cliffs.

JS 8190 thunders past JS 8167 as it leads a loaded coal train out of the opencast pit coal mine.

JS 8167 thunders upgrade with a heavy coal train on the opencast pit line of Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway.

JS 8167 storms out of Baerzhan Yard with a heavy coal train on the last day of 2017. Baerzhan is interlocking throat for the loading point on the Sandaoling system; here the double track mainline ... (more)

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS (Jian She=construction) # 8167 with another load of coal on the 1.0 % grade out from the open cast mine of Sandaoling.

Through the Baerzhan station in the open cast pit, the coaltrain with 2-8-2 JS # 8167 is accelerating for the steady 1.0 % grade up to the highest point of the line.

Full steam on the about 1.0 % grade with a 700 ton coal train out of the open cast mine of Sandaoling. Pulling is 2-8-2 JS # 8167, in the background is JS 8173 visible, waiting to go to the loadin... (more)

The 2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS (Jian She) # 8167 is leaving the coal laoding area in the pit, with a huge excavator on the right.

JS # 8167 shunting in Dongbolizhan shortly before sunrise.

2-8-2 JS # 8167 is tackling the 1.0 % grade of the Sandaoling open cast mine railroad with a 700 ton train with coal.

After new fuel was loaded, the JS # 8167 is shunting with her empty train to the other track to the blue loader.

Although there is a coal bunker with loading facility at Dongbolizhan railway station, the steamlocomotives of the Sandaoling open cast mine railroad are usually supplied with coal at the bottom o... (more)

This morning, an astonishing large group of photographers and videographers from over the world watched the shift change "ceremony" at the Dongbolizhan station.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS (Jian She=construction) # 8167 with another load of coal on the line out from the open cast mine of Sandaoling.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS (Jian She=construction) # 8167 is leaving the loading area in the open cast mine with 13 hoppers loaded with coal up for the washery.