Late afternoon in Sandaoling is a magical hour for steam railway photography. On one such day in January 2016, JS8167 silhouette against the setting sun as the locomotive shoves an empty train awa... (more)

Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway JS 8225 thunders uphill and through the big curve on it's way up and out of the opencast pit mine with another heavy coal train. Sandaoling is the LAST great steam sho... (more)

On a coal January day in 2016, JS8190 storms past her sister, JS8225, leading a heavy coal train upgrade at Sandaoling. Just minutes before, these two steam locomotives were working as a team, whe... (more)

On a coal January day in 2016, two mainline 2-8-2s thunder upgrade with a heavy coal train at Sandaoling. Doubleheaded trains are extremely rare on the Sandaoling Mine Railway however, JS8190's tr... (more)

Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway JS 8190 thunders upgrade out of the giant opencast pit coal mine. The locomotive is just beginning the steepest part of the 4 mile climb out of the pit with 3 more mil... (more)

Fuxin Mining Administration SY 1397 makes a thunderous departure from Wulong Mine with a train of spoil bound for the spoil tip. Soon this train will reverse direction on the track in the foregro... (more)

Fuxin Mining Administration SY #1320 storms upgrade out of Wulong Mine with a load of spoil.

Fuxin Mining Administration SY #1320 works hard lifting its train up the 1% grade into Ping'An yard. This train is full of fly ash from the power station and is bound for the spoil tip to dump the... (more)

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.

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.

JS #8358 shove hard against a loaded coal train leaving Erjing. This heavy 40-car train was topped and tailed, with another JS 2-8-2 straining at the front of this train. The sight of these two m... (more)

JS #8358 struggles to move 40 loaded coal cars up the grade out of the Erjing Mine railyard. Fortunately for the former-mainline 2-8-2, the apex of the grad is in a few meters and soon the train w... (more)

Silhouetted against the rising sun, an unknown JS 2-8-2 leads a loaded coal train from Erjing Mine to South Station, where it will be transferred to the National Railway. Sandaoling Coal Mine Rail... (more)

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)