Just returned from Beijing and I have published a report on my site at http://www.railwaysofchina.com/luopoling.htm. Happy New Year and let's see a few more...
Hi Robin, Many thanks for the report, and great pictures. It confirms what, I suspect, not very many of us yet know - not only is China the best remaining...
Robin, Happy New Year to you too. Thanks for the very interesting report and pleased to see you had good sunny weather - or have you found a way to brighten...
Didn't do much exploring Bruce - would be good to ride the train next time. Off topic slightly but there is a post on hasea of what look like the Yexi locos,...
Hello everyone, The DF11Gs seem to be spreading their wings. Sankeshu depot in Harbin has acquired an allocation including DF11G 0105 which has been ...
With DF11Gs on the Harbin - Qiqihaer run, the last DFH3s must be on borrowed time. There seems to have been a significant shift away from Dalian built products...
... were ... Hi Phil, If memory serves me correctly, the first members of the second batch were initially allocated to Beijing Xi, for working a few specific ...
Sankeshu also has a handful of old DF11s now, no doubt cascaded after the April speed-up. On Dalian it is interesting that from what I can estimate the works...
Hello everyone, Posted on one of Changjiang's bulletin boards:- A conversation on a train journey with a Dalian loco factory employee, so I've absolutely no...
Duncan, Indeed, couldn't agree more!! The automatic translator threw up the dollar symbol, but I suspect that the figures might be reasonably accurate if...
Roy and others, Some responses. I certainly think Dalian could produce 500 locos in a year, but the point I was trying to make was just that these days a much...
Is anyone in the group interested in narrow gauge diesels? I've been looking at every plate image I can find plus my own notes and find a large number of...
Thanks Bruce. Something else which has captured my imagination. Might the recently delivered DF4B 77xx locos be the reported rebuilds of DF4E double units 7701...
Dear Roy, I think purely coincidental! It is just the number range Dalian`s DF4B reached recently! e.g. DF4 7673-7675, DL 2002 for Chengde Steelworks or DF4...
Roy, The pictures of DF4E that I've seen have shown an angular bodystyle of the DF4C/D type. The Tiefa locos appear to have the usual more rounded DF4B style...
Roy, Florian, I'm absolutely sure there is now a number duplication. The Dalian DF4Bs are now up past 7735 as far as I know and most of the new ones have gone...
Duncan and others, The DF4Es appear to have all been rebuilt as DF4Bs and this exercise appears to have been completed at least a year ago. The angular Sifang...
Bruce, Duncan, Florian, Thanks for that. I will be in Shanghai in April, and had already planned to take a trip out to Nanxiang. I will try to track down and...
Roy, There's nothing conclusive on the SYs but given that 10 of the 14 have been reported without any conflicting sightings and none have been reported as...
Hello, further to add, I saw brand-new DF4B 7732 and 7733, both in classical DF4B-shape and dark-reddish-brown-livery with DL 2004 builder plates in 11/2004...
Duncan, Roy and others, I am also of the view that there is probably no duplication with the SYs between 1701 and 1714. We have records now of around 60% of...
I agree, probably no duplication of SY 1701 to 1714, considering that no Tangshan built locos of this batch have been discovered. It is a mystery though: cross...
Dear Group Members, Julien Blanc has provided some excellent shots of SS1 and SS3 electrics between Guiyang and Liupanshui - uploaded to the "Anshun" folder on...
A quick update...... DF11G 0101/0102,0107/0108, and 0109/0110 are reported as still being at Beijing Xi. DF11G 0105 is at Sankeshu, almost certainly with 0106,...
Individual loco allocations are certainly useful info Roy (although I trawl myself from time to time). What I (and I imagine a few others) try to record is...
A new "modular" SS7E (numbered 6002) has appeared. It has been photographed at Zhengzhou and carries the ZhengZheng depot characters, not Xi'an. It has a...
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