Fuxin Mining Administration SY #1378 pulls out of the siding after stopping to let off the special brakeman at the Spoil Tip-man's Shanty. Every train must stop here for a special brakemen who esc... (more)

Fuxin Mining Administration SY #1397 pulls a heavy coal train towards the China National Railway interchange.

Fuxin Mining Administration SY #1378 storms out of the siding on the Spoil Tip hill one the way down to pick up another load of spoil for dumping. The hills that surround the city of Fuxin China a... (more)

HOTBOX! One of the spoil wagon axle boxes has caught fire as another empty spoil train pushes out of the yard at Ping'An Coal Mine.

Sandaoling Mining Railway JS8225 pulls up out of the wesat side ofg the opencast pit with another train of spoil. When this photograph was taken in 2010, Sandaoling had over 20 steam locomotives i... (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)

JS8167 storms upgrade out of the giant opencast pit coal mine at Sandaoling, while JS8173 starts its train in the background. Soon JS8173 will load it's train and follow JS8167 up out of the pit. ... (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)

The LAST steam powered standard gauge mixed train to run in the world! JS8250 storms across the half mile long river bridge at Yuanbaoshan leading 19 empty coal cars, and 6 passenger cars. This... (more)

Deep within the opencast pit coal mine of Sandaoling, JS #6209 thunders past JS #8167 at the BaErZhan siding. JS6209 is hauling a 1300 ton coal train out of the big pit, and the engineer is using ... (more)

SY #1395 storms out of WuLong Mine on a sunny May morning with a train full of coal bound for the National Railway. This train has only a short 5 mile trip behind SY1395, as it will be interchange... (more)

The Xingyang Brickworks Railway was an anachronism in a country known for railway anachronisms. Built int he 1970's the railway's sole purpose was to haul clay from a quarry to a large brickworks.... (more)

JS 8358 has just topped the steep grade outside of Erjing mine and will coast downgrade for the remainder of the trip to Nanzhan.

Deep in the Open Pit Coal Mine of Sandaoling, JS 8225 storms upgrade past JS 8077. JS 8225 is bound for the coal washery but first must surmount a grueling 2%+ grade that will challenge the massiv... (more)

JS 8077 leads another coal train out of the Opean Cast Pit in the golden light at the end of another day at Sandaoling.