Thank you Lindsay for your infomation and very pleasant pictures. Regards Fred from Paris To: Steam_in_China@yahoogroups.com From: mail@... Date: Mon,...
I just posted a new Sandaoling video up if anyone's interested, it will be a familiar location to those that have visited. It is from January 17th this year....
Hi Frederick, It seems to me that some of the Chinese people are genuinely interested in talking to us, especialy the railroaders like to compare notes with...
Here's a link to report on the temperature in Yakeshi in the north, which is the new steam location i think. Minus 50.7 C is pretty cold. In those sorts of...
Yes. But to put it in context for anyone contemplating visiting, this is exceptional even by local standards, and was the night time minimum. Daytime...
I have uploaded a sadly not very good photo of a loco in steam and shunting at the February 7th Rolling Stock Works in Beijing on 14th August 1991. ...
... The "skyline casing" on the JS and QJ classes is I think partially a cover for an outside main pipe - that is a main pipe from the boiler steam space to...
Brian, I know of quite a few instances when SY (the pass loco at Tangshan colliery) and JF (Zhu De, for example) had the cowling added as an adornment. It...
A very good question! It looks like a cross between a JF6 and an SY with a bit of Soviet intervention. The JF6 was the Japanese light 2-8-2 design on which the...
This is probably a stupid question but what is happening to all the retired steam engines? Are they herded into sidings and cut up, some put in tallow or just...
Most are being cut up. I know there is a C2 in England being restored. At least 3 QJs in the US along with several other types. There is a nice museum in...
Thanks for your thoughts Duncan. Your explanation seems a most likely one but as you say, we'll probably never know. I've uploaded a second photo of the...
SY 0002 is pretty derelict but I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary when I saw it in 2006. It had the usual taper boiler, with dome and sandbox in the...
As someone pointed out a while ago, the engines at Zhalainuoer have been moved from where they were stored to a compound on the other side of the mainline....
Yes, thanks for the interesting picture. There are some pics of SY0001 at: http://bbs.railcn.net/viewthread.php?tid=77639 . The worksplate would be a...
Thanks Rick for posting such an interesting photo. I agree with Duncans view on the history of this loco. Now Rick has started the ball rolling, has anyone...
Thanks Robin. That certainly looks like a fairly standard SY except for the tender which, to my Aussie eyes, looks surprisingly like those fitted to the...
I didn't get my 2011 China selection finished before leaving for Madagascar, but I must finish it before leaving for my 2012 China tour. I have made a...
I was at Jixi this weekend. Electrification is almost complete, poles everywhere with cables in place, though there are no electric cables going east beyong...
Bernd, The photos are beyond excellent. The only ones I don`t like are the last ones!<GG> I could look at those haunting scenes forever! Peter ... [Non-text...
I have now added another seven photos. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Steam_in_China/photos/album/181978153/pic/list> Roderick B Smith Rail News Victoria...
** High Priority ** Big project - lots of luck. If enough people are interested then the problems become more manageable. First find lots of dosh. Then find...
