SY 1058 passes by, as several horses have their carts loaded with coal slurry at Chengzihe washery in 2002.
Local folk sift through ashes from the steam locos at Pingdingshan, looking for unburned pieces of coal to take home.
A steam crane puts more coal into the tenders of 2 SY locos at the servicing point, within the huge opencast pit at Jalainur in 2003.
2-8-2 No SY 1102 propels wagons over the hump at Shuangyashan in 2002.
Sandaoling has a large fleet of JS locos and just a few SYs. Here SY 1593 deals with cranes.
2-8-2 No SY 0150 climbs out of Yaojie with a coal train in 2005
SY class 2-8-2 No SY 1097 heads out of Yaojie with a coal train in 2005.
A pair of SY 2-8-2 locos go about their business at Jalainur, on a very cold morning in 2003
Sunrise. An unidentified SY 2-8-2 crosses the river at Haishiwan with a train for Yaojie in 2005.
A comparison of 2-8-2 loco classes in China. Left is a JS and right is an SY class. Both are in the scrap line at Baiyin in 2005.
7 SY class 2-8-2s are visible at Qingqihai in 2002. This is the centre of operations for the Datong Coal Railway.
An SY class 2-8-2 adds to the slag heap at Baotou steelworks in 2001.
An SY class 2-8-0 travels over some dodgy looking temporary track laid on top of a slag heap at Baotou steelworks in 2001.
The night before this photo, it had been the first frost in the Erzgebirge.