http://www.railwayfan.net/ccj/bbs1/cgi-bin/topic.cgi? forum=15&topic=4280&start=0&show=0 shows a number of photos of SY 1290 on the Qinhuangdao Local Railway, ...
Spent a few hours at the Ba River bridge (Bahe Qiao) just east of Xian at the weekend - it is visible from the road to the Terracotta warriors but fairly near...
Eight of these locos were built in 1937 and became class ST3 after Liberation. None were ever reported by western enthusiasts so I guess they were withdrawn a...
Hello, I was wondering if anyone had list of places with good traffic where they could just go and sit and watch trains go by with out problems from the...
Out of town on virtually any main line you'll see plenty of trains and are very unlikely to be hassled. Watching and photographing trains is not illegal in...
Dear Duncan and Adam, I`d like to add, that there CAN be problems at major CNR lines, especially in cases when the tracks are fenced off from public terrain....
Does anyone have any information on the night train to Hainan island from Guangzhou? It seems like it would be pretty interesting to take, but I can find no...
There was recently in German TV a report on China, comprising a train journey from north to south in the beginning of 2005. Interestingly the train journey...
DF1: A recent report on CJBB showed DF 1210 in good condition. It belongs to so called "NanHua" Railway which I believe to be the Nanchuan line south of ...
You could also try the branch from Hungjiang (now renamed Baicheng? City) which is north of Tonghua on what use to be the JS operated line and the local line...
Yes Florian. I have the DF4 and SS7 books, purchased from CRPH in Beijing. There are a few useful drawings, but they are heavy on slabs of text and for those...
Hello everyone, Another interesting posting on Changjiang: http://www.railwayfan.net/ccj/bbs2/cgi-bin/topic.cgi? forum=15&topic=5471&start=0&show=20&man= This...
Roy and others, I suspect there may still be a few DFH3s lurking in the remote corners of Shenyang Bureau. The branches near Tumen had DFH3s on everything for ...
Thanks Bruce. Maybe I'll get around to revisiting some of the former steam hotspots some day. It would be fascinating to see what's there now. Perhaps the...
We didn't see any Harbin Bureau DFH3 on our recent trek to Huanan either. I thought there may have been one or two lurking around the Jiamusi / Hegang area but...
DFH3: On my January 2005 trip, I also did not see any DFH3s around Jiamusi. The only and lonely DFH3 seen working was a Sankeshu one hauling the Harbin-Nancha...
For information, in December 2004, I saw DFH3 0216 departing from Harbin main station with the 13h14 passenger (nr 2016) to Jilin. Furthermore, a Tongliao taxi...
Dear all, I just uploaded a few pictures of my last visit (Sep. 10-11, 2005) to the great SS1-worked (on freights) Liuzhi - Liupanshui section of the Guiyang -...
Seemingly the railway line into Lhasa is ready. Please check the following article (in German): http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,380154,00.html ...
Hello everyone, These are the reported ND3 and ND5 allocations at Nanjing Dong. I know that there are some group members with a special interest in these...
China CCTV 9 (English language TV) had a report on its business news that GE has won a contract to supply China Rail with 300 new locos. GE has entered into a...
I couldn't find anything on the Main GE website or the GE China site. GE is supplying 78 locos for the Qinghai-Tibet line. EMD, formerly GM has a contract for...
Details of the new GE's are: 6000 hp Tier II 1 loco to be built in Erie 299 kits with decreasing GE content technology transfer 2007 - 2009 delivery Qishuyan...