Peering out the small window of the crossing guard shack just in time to see a JS locomotive whistle through the crossing back into Dongbolizhan Station.

Our guide Jun is also an avid railroad photographer. We were always his priority but he would take a few photos with us as well. He had a great knowledge of the area showing us the best locations ... (more)

Early dawn is very still at Dongbolizhan Station.

Loads of coal head towards the Xuanmeichang Washery.

Standing in silence in this creepy abandoned apartment complex waiting for that shot when a steam train comes into sight. Pictures still hand on the wall along with some other personal artifacts t... (more)

This relic sits in the Jichangzhan scrap yard as its sibling still pounds the rails.

I stood in the dark on this empty street surrounded by vacant homes. As the dawn blues started to creep in a lone rider on a moped zips down the street. The last train of the shift clatters by bac... (more)

Looking out through the broken panes of glass from an abandoned apartment in the wasteland that remains of Nanquan. Few residents still remain in this town just south of Sandaoling.

Steel gates keep everything but the view of a returning steam train out in Nanquan. The train will head back to the blue loader at Xikeng for another load.

The fireman looks ahead as JS class locomotive 8358 is shunting in the Nanzhan coal sorting yard. The cement plant towers in the background.

Everything you will see a lot of in Sandaoling can be seen in this one photo, steam action, stray dogs, and mopeds. This loaded train is almost up the hill and will cut the steam shortly as it hea... (more)

A steam shop worker uses a torch to heat and repair a cylinder bore. With only a handful of locomotives still in operation and the scrap yard being used up, they keep what they can running working... (more)

Hot automotive parts train NS 181 passes westbound through Buck Creek, IN through the early morning fog.

A covered hopper rolls through the computer-controlled retarders at East Hump while being sorted for eastern destinations at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 3, 2011... (more)

It was a busy on the wee hours of Monday morning on the south-end of the CNO&TP 2nd District, as NS 178 (Birmingham,AL-Bellevue,OH) has just stop pass the draw bridge on the main 2 track at Tenbri... (more)