Yuanbaoshan coal railway had several JS locos fitted with large smoke deflectors, as seen here on 8418.

DF4 5333 shunts brand new SS4 electric locos at Sujiatan loco depot in Shenyang.

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill where SY0946, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1975, w... (more)

SY1764 2-8-2 shunting at Zhuangmai Washery, Pingzhuang before taking spoil for tipping.

SY1319, SY988 and SY1378 at the servicing point by the apartment blocks at Fuxin in the late afternoon.

A C2, 0-8-0 steam loco heads a morning, mixed train, from Shixi to Huancunjin on the Jiayang coal railway.

Sunset over the last steamers of this world.

2 feet gauge loco No 4 heads a train of wooden bodied tubs along the Jianghe Coal Railway.

SY Class No 1005 shunts ladle wagons filled with molten slag while the remains of snow lies on the ground in the depths of Beitai Steelworks

7am and still virtually dark on a freezing foggy November morning in Fuxin, China. SY Class No 1378 is ready with a loaded train of coal. Once scenes like this were common all over the world certa... (more)

Standby duty for Beijing - Tianjin intercity PDL.

By the end of the day there had been just enough warmth to melt most of the snow in the fields alongside the small town of Reshui. It had been unbelievably cold all day and all in the group had go... (more)

It had been sunny on the eastern side of the pass, but on the western side a snowstorm had barely passed by as this pair of QJs struggled the final kilometre to the summit. The pale sun was equall... (more)