On the evening of January 3rd 2018, a loaded Coal Train blasts out of the loading yard past 82 Station at the bottom of the grade out of Sandaoling Open Cut Coal Mine, Nth West China.
During engine preparation after shift change at East Yard, the Driver builds a fire under the Rodding to the Cylinder Drain Cocks in an attempt to unfreeze it. At a time of the year when the tempe... (more)
Loaded coal train runs uphill
A few minutes after sunrise
Empty coal train on the way to the mine. This is the car at the head of the train with a watcher in the cab
Loud climbing out of the coal mine
Cold sunrise at 9.08am
2-8-2 JS # 8190 of the Sandaoling caol mine railroad is pulling another 700 ton train out of the pit.
Workers wait until the loaded coal train has passed. And it sounds really good!
At the bottom of the opencast pit mine at Sandaoling, JS 6224 storms out of the flood loader with the second coal train of the day. This 13 car train will battle four miles of 2.5% grade before re... (more)
Steam train and a lot of conveyors in the afternoon sun
Empty coal train leaves the unloading point
2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS (Jian She=construction) # 8167 with another load of coal on the 1.0 % grade out from the open cast mine of Sandaoling.
Left the car at the head, right the car at the rear of the empty coal train. The steam loc is always at the same place
Through the Baerzhan station in the open cast pit, the coaltrain with 2-8-2 JS # 8167 is accelerating for the steady 1.0 % grade up to the highest point of the line.