Running towards the approaching night hours, QJ7119 and 7038 pass the Reshui bridge on the JiTong line. In the future it will be replaced by a new electrified shortcut through the mountains from R... (more)
"The wrong wind" was always an issue at the Jingpeng pass. Sometimes the force of the QJ´s exhaust wasn´t strong enough to lift the clag high above the steam locomotive before the crue... (more)
The JiTong line in China´s Inner Mongolia province, famous for its last QJ steam locomotives used in regular services, has already undergone a huge transformation from a local, single tracked rai... (more)
Approaching Liudigou.
3rd Level above Reshui. 2nd Level track is visible to the left.
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.
The temperature is hovering around zero as a weak winter sun throws its first rays over the land, revealing a pair of QJ's about to start up the east ramp of Jingpeng Pass. Although this scene is... (more)
A pair of QJs slog up the Jing Peng Pass with a long, mixed freight, in 1998.
This is the backside of the mountain side above Reshui. The railroad climbs the pass using two big loops, so that three levels of track are visible from Reshui. In going from the second to the thi... (more)
A southbound train nears the summit of Jingpeng Pass.
An unusually filthy QJ 6639 leads a westbound train out of tunnel 7 on Jing Peng Pass.
