Bernd, These lines may be part of the narrow gauge network we found in February. From my report : Between Jinzhou and Panjin, the expressway traverses an...
Dear All, just a few information from my 3 weeks-stay in China - and no loco-numbers at all... JiTong: JiTong has decided to officially request 10 DF4 from the...
Hello All, At the web address below is a photo of QJ 7291 as a banker (or rear helper) on a coal or ore train shoving over a high bridge at a location I do not...
I new posting just above the one of QJ 7291 shows a QJ working over a very curved hilly line, & almost on to a bridge, location of this would also be...
Hi,Louis Cerny and all. That picture is Chinese railfan's. He said, it is Pubai coal railway. Pubai coal railway is from Pucheng to Baishui. Depot is on...
T. Ota Thanks so much for the information. After looking at my Quail Map, page 8, I see that Pucheng is about in the middle of the extreme right (eastern) ...
Hello everyone, This line has already been featured on this group. Full credit to Bruce Evans for its recent discovery. For more information see messages 2947...
I join with Louis to say thanks also. Looking at the one pic it certainly gives a nice side of China's other terrain that is not desert (even on the hills)....
What isn't entirely clear is which of the experimental locos became QJ 7291, the Wardale prototype QJ 8001 or the Chinese designed QJ2 0001. What happened to...
Hello all, Thanks to Roy Bowden for giving Bruce Evans his well-deserved credit for the discovery of these lines, and thanks to Florian for directing us to...
Duncan and everyone, It is my understanding that QJ 8001 is preserved and still in the former museum section at Datong works. It was photographed there within...
New information about Tongchuan: They'll keep 2/3 JF in service until January 2005 (no exact date known). This is due to the delivery date of the ordered...
Hello everyone, Further to my previous posting (and a bit quicker than I expected), this seems to be the situation with regard to the former Datong ...
I've been working on a database of Chinese steam locos for the past couple of months, collating details of which locos have been reported where and when. The...
Hello! I just wanted o ask if someone is interested in exchanging dvds of steam on jingpeng pass. I could offer what I took in oct 2002 and may 2004 ( dvd+r),...
Duncan - I have a loco portrait type pic of what I have recorded as PLz50 at Benxi in March 2002. I don't think there is a visible builders plate in the pic -...
Hi Louis, I can see you're an optimist! Actually the photo does not show a banker but the train engine, tender-first, on a loaded coal train heading towards ...
Duncan, I have some digital video footage of PL2 50 at Benxi, including a close up shot of the builder's plate. I can send you a "still" of this if you think...
... Well I'm certainly interested in DVDs of Chinese steam; the only problem is that I don't take video myself, and so I have nothing to offer in exchange! So...
Reinhard I'd love a copy of your DVD if you are willing to let me have one.Unfortunately I don't have a video to exchange but I would be willing to pay costs...
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the clarification about the Pubai Coal Railway photo. I need all the help I can get in trying to pass on information originating in...
Hello All, The Japanese "Steam in China" website http://www2.ezbbs.net/20/1969/ has now posted pictures and a map on their Message Board of the Shoaxing-Lizhu...
Reinhard I would be interested as well, once I get my tapes onto DVD Colin Hussey ________________________________________________________ GoConnect Internet...
Hello all, A very detailed map of the Pubai Coal Railway (discovered by Bruce Evans)is at http://www2.ezbbs.net/20/qj1969/img/1088918672_1.jpg This should be a...
Hello, Just thought I'd pass along two items. The first is an article about steam fans in Tongchuan with shows photos of some very Japanese-looking supershine...
