A worker is unfreezing a pipe that goes underneath the railroad as a loaded coal drag throttles into the curve near Keng Kou Station. I was fortunate to have gotten snowfall but apparently not all... (more)

JS 8197 stands cold at Dongbolizhan, its boiler certificate having expired a few days previously. As shift change comes to an end a local man scavenges for lumps of coal to keep his family warm. L... (more)

Sandaoling Mining Railway JS8197 storms uphill with a heavy coal train, one of many this locomotive will haul on this cold January day in 2016.

Sandaoling Mine Railway JS8197 storms uphill with a heavy coal train on a cold January day in 2016. This is just one of the dozens of steam powered coal trains that thunder out of the opencast pit... (more)