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...
Dear Duncan % Joeri, Thorge and I photraphed this loco in use at Baoji in May 2006 (see report no 488 on qj-country.de). I suspect that it is a SS1 using the ...
224 is definitely the later style and below that, my records show that 220 is old style. Can anyone opine on 221-223? Rgds Robin ... but the strange thing...
Curious also about SS1 571 is the large boxes (air conditioners??) on the roof. On the later style they are a seperate box (as is the case also with 571) where...
Antwerp, Belgium, 20/01/2008, Hello, No problem at all...! ;-) Don't worry...! And thanks a lot for the other reactions, I found them very interesting...! :-) ...
Dear Robin, the "last" SS1 in old design was 220. From 221 upwards, the new design was standard. However, from the technical point of view, there was no...
SATURDAY 2nd FEBRUARY 2008 Sightings from brief visit to Kunming Iron and Steelworks Company (KISC) GK1B 0062 (1998 Ziyang) GK2B 1010 (2003 CSR, 16 notch...
Sorry for the off topic post. Has anyone managed to contact guides Sun Xiaolan or Zhuang recently? Please e-mail me off list if you've been in contact since...
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