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.
At the loading station
