2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 is leaving the loading area (blue loader in the far distance) with a 13 hoppers train of about 700 ton out from the pit to the washery.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad is passing Baerzhan station (also called station 82) with a 700 ton coal train.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad is leaving the loading point (blue silo in the background) with another 700 ton train up to the washery.

View to the coal loading area in the open cast mine of Sandaoling. The coal is transported up from the deeper pit via a conveyor belt and loaded onto the trains at the blue silo. JS # 8173 is just... (more)

Switch keeper's hut and JS 8173 coming from the washery.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 is running backwards with an empty train to the loading point in the mine.

JS # 8173 2-8-2 steamlocomotive of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad is pulling the first train of the day shift from the loading point in the pit up to the washery. In the background the about 30... (more)

A decision on the future of steam at Sandaoling will be taken during March 2017. However until then it is business as usual and coal must continue to be hauled out of the open cast pit. Following ... (more)

Trains from the deep mines at Lijing and Erjing can run up to several times each day. JS8366 is rolling down the grade from Erjing to Nanzhan with a loaded coal train on 17th Feburary 2017, the Ti... (more)

In the morning light of a cold clear February day in 2015, JS8173 leads the first of many coal trains out of the big pit. In the next 10 hours of sunlight, JS8173 will haul 8 more loaded coal trai... (more)

In the waning light of a gloriously cold and clear February day, JS #8173 storms through the Big Curve on the way out of the opencast pit coal mine at Sandaoling. This train is one of many 1300 to... (more)

JS 8173 slips and stalls again while lifting a heavy loaded coal train up the 2%+ out of the Opencast Pit at Sandaoling. This train has been stalled on the steepest part of the grade for almost 30... (more)

While most loaded trains at the Sandaoling Coal Railway, make it up the tough 2%+ grade with only minor wheelslip, JS #8173 had alot tougher time on January 21st. This train was severely overloade... (more)