6981 & 7002 storm westbound out of Linxi after stopping to take water.

The crews of QJs 7002 & 6981 chat just before the locomotives doublehead with a westbound freight from Daban. Our group was able to follow them and their train all the way to Jingpeng with multipl... (more)

Decorated QJ 6840 is serviced at Daban after bringing the passenger train in from Haoluku. This was the regular passenger engine west of Daban. The fancy engines were dubbed " supershine " by eith... (more)

QJ 6351 departs westbound from Lindong after a stop to service the locomotive.

QJ 7081 is westbound at sunrise on a bitterly cold morning east of Gulumanhan. This is one of two QJ 2-10-2s that was imported by RDC and has run on the Iowa Interstate Railroad several times.

6778 pulls an eastbound freight late in the afternoon on my second trip to China. The local passenger train was waiting at Yamenmiao station for this train to clear.

QJ 6577 and 6763 emerge from tunnel 1 running downgrade. The train is about to pass over the well-known Simingyi viaduct.

It's about 8 o'clock and 20 below zero Celsius (- 4 F) when two QJ with a heavy freight are on the first leg from Jingpeng to the Pass.

It is early morning and the temps are somewhere below freezing. The sun has yet to make it all the way above the horizon. Semaphores guard the interlocking as doubleheaded 2-10-2's approach the su... (more)

Sulphurous deposits lend strange colour hues to the frozen waters of the river that weaves beneath Kinmiaoxiang's magnificent Biligou viaduct. QJ 6639 pilots 6851 as they work eastbound in the fin... (more)

Rolling into the setting sun.

I had just disembarked from my train at Daban and I was making my way across the tracks towards the MPD. Looking back towards the station, this was my first sight of a double-headed freight with i... (more)

The train gets underway.

God sure was in his heaven on this perfect Sunday evening. He showered all before him in shimmering gold and poor fools like me wanted to take it all home!