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.

Iowa Interstate QJs 6988 and 7081 lead ICRI down the street running in Davenport, dubbed as the longest steam powered freight of the 21st century.

Coming around the mountain.. Click on "Singing Sands Viaduct" above for companion views.

Doubleheaded QJs work across a wintry scene.

IAIS 6988 and 7081 putting on a show as they depart from a water stop at Walcott,IA

Railfans scramble back to their cars to jump ahead to the next spot as Iowa Interstate 2-10-2 6988 slowly eases past the former Rock Island depot in the railroad's namesake city. The special was r... (more)

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)

Through the fog. Iowa Interstate's doubleheaded 2-10-2s emerge from the fog and blast past the former Rock Island station in Wilton with a manifest freight. The Chinese imports were on thei... (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)

A freight climbs the far mountain side having left Tolar Grande upon the arrival of our very late passenger train. This scene is at about 14,000 feet above sea level on the northern trans-Andino ... (more)