Just noticed your post Florian. The XiaoLiu Railway runs from Xiaoxi to Liulin, in Shanxi province, and branches off the JieXi branch from Jiexiu on the Nan...
Sorry everyone for a really off-topic question, but I think the only people who may be able to answer this question may belong to this group. I want to paint...
This is my first post here, so bear with me if i ask the obvious - although I have searched the forum before writing ;o) I have been cross checking various web...
Ni Hao, I too am new to the Chinese diesel group, and also I am not up to date on the latest fancy diesel locomotive control systems, having left the BN just...
... I don't think "direct reversing" (reserving the loco by actually reversing the running direction of the engine) has been a feature of diesel locos since...
Mr. Rumary, Thank you very kindly for your response, but I get the feeling that I may not have worded my original question clearly enough. Here in the USA,...
The illustrated report of my recent trip to steam lines in the north- east is now on Railography. http://www.railography.co.uk/reports/2007/20071125-cn.htm As...
I've received an e-mail from Tomasz Galka, who runs a website on locomotives used in Poland (http://www.locomotives.com.pl/) and is interested in the type EL2...
Pritchard's Industrial Locomotives of the PRC, and Pertwee's article in Locomotives International Special Edition No 1, Diesels and Electrics, spring to mind...
Dear Robin, the locos photographed at Panzhihua are of class ZG150, the Chinese copy of LEW Henningsdorf`s BoBoBo class "EL1". Altogether 186 EL2s have been...
... is available now. As in last year`s issue 1, the emphasis is on modern traction, but steam is also featured, including articles about the QJs for Iowa and...
Dear Mark, thanks for your update! Regarding the DF11G you observed: NanJuNanDuan is the "ordinary" depot code for Nanchang bureau, Nanchang depot. Also,...
Thanks Florian, There have been numerous instances of SYs moving from one steelworks to another, so it wouldn't be a great surprise if electric locos had been...
1) Very recent DF4B 9584 at JinWen Tielu http://www.railwayfan.net/ viewthread.php?tid=53636&extra=page%3D1&page=5 2) DF 0006 (!!) and another one at a factory...
Thanks for that Florian. I have been a bit lazy in researching the ZG150. http://www.xemw.com/en/p2-5.html is the manufacturer's site, and they produce some...
Antwerp, Belgium, 07/01/2008, Hello, Thanks a lot for these interesting links...! About DF4 7364 with the strange looking front, I think (I'm not 100% sure if...
Dear Joeri, I do not think that 7364 is a converted "4E". The converted "4E"s have become DF4 7701 to 7732 (these locos exist twice now!! ). There was a recent...
A three page thread here on the East German built V100 in China, the 3rd page has a list of builders numbers and other later, maybe of interest to some people?...
Dear Phil, thanks for sending the link to the V100 thread. Especially intrestssting is to see V100.2 in workable condition at Daqing! So far, I believed, that...
According to a contact in BeiJing the following passenger services are some of the last BJ hauled passenger services: 6452 07:30 Yangcun Ñî´å - Beijing...
Antwerp, Belgium, 19/01/2008, Hello, This nice picture of SS1571 taken in Xi'an drew my attention: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=193531 This...
Antwerp, Belgium, 19/01/2008, Hello, Yes, well, I knew that it should be understood as SS1 number 571, but the strange thing about this locomotive is that it...