Hegang has 11 serviceabel SYs at the moment. April 30th they'll get the first 5 diesel locomotives, December 2007 they'll get another four. By end of December...
Hi there. The locomotive you are looking for i'm afraid is now withdrawn and dumped. The locomotive SY 0964, as you said with smoke deflectors, a skyline...
Thank you for that information on SY0964. -- All the best, Chris ... ============= Hi there. The locomotive you are looking for i'm afraid is now withdrawn and...
Hello all, The April 2 reports on the sy-country website are truly impressive. A total of 78 SY, 34 JS, and 6 QJ, for a total of 118 standard gauge ...
I agree with Louis Thanks for the new reports, and hopefully I have one more trip in me. Thank you also to Michael Rhodes for the truly great photo;s that you...
Antwerp, Belgium, 03/04/2007, Hello, I don't know if someone else also read the report of Barry Buckfield of his visit to Pucheng on March the 18th...? He...
The loco was stored in a walled area of the shed in November 2006. I doubt that it was going to be overhauled (stored long time a go after an accident),...
New date for re-open Huanan narrow gauge railway is April 15th! Bernd (Shibanxi) Newsletter: visit www.FarRail.com Bernd Seiler FarRail Tours www.farrail.com ...
The illustrated report of my latest trip to China is available at : http://www.railography.co.uk/reports/2007/20070315-cn.htm This visit started with a few...
Huanan new date: will be back into operation on April 9th! Huangjinggou will keep running at least until Chinese New Year 2008 - that's good news. Yinghao plan...
... coal ... Another classic report. Interesting how the seasons wax and wane. Early March 2005 and the water under the bridge at Luopoling was still frozen...
Hello everyone, I have just added a few more images to my fotopic site "Steam and the Dragon" these images from October 2006 show the three QJ 2-10-2's stored...
An interesting article on the LifeOfGuangzhou.com website about a deserted narrow gauge steam locomotive down here in Guangdong... A "Made-in-GZ" Locomotive in...
Hi, there are several major speed increases from April 18: New EMUs, tpe number probably "CRH", judging from picture on the timetable book, will run...
Hello all, just returned from a 11-day steam trip. Not enough news to warrant an official report on the sy-steam site. After our KLM flight to Chengdu ...
Hi Ameling, Your taxi was a Chinese taxi, so no problem at all. The driver even opened the bonnet in one occasion - so it looked like an usual breakdown on the...
Hello, dear steam enthusiasts, I'm a new member of this group and a steam enthusiast, too. Please, tolerate my bad English. Maybe you are interested in a...
Terrific photos Heinrich....thanks for posting the link. -- All the best, Chris ... ============= Hello, dear steam enthusiasts, I'm a new member of this group...
Heinrich Schnepf Thanks for sharing. These are perhaps the best post-Jitong QJ action photos I've seen. Nice to see such clean JS at Pingdingshan. Louis...
Hello all, Tiefa has posted a 14-minute video that is about the rebuilding of KD6 487 but also tells the story of how they came to love rail enthusiasts after...
Hello all, The web address for the 14 minute Tiefa video didn't fit on one line, and the sp from the second line has to be added to make to full address. Louis...
Hello all, This is getting embarrassing! I should have known better than to try to type such a long web address without a typo, but I'll make one more try. ...
I have published a trip report from Shanghai, Beijing and Jitong line at http://home.c2i.net/schaefer/chinarail.html See under "trip reports" section. I have...
... Thanks Heinrich for posting those great photos of yours. I like your style of photography and would have to be the best i've seen so far on Chinese steam....
The "Surviving World Steam" project is documenting the last of the world's remaining steam locomotives, ships, boats, vehicles, and reciprocating pumps in the...
Hi Louis ... May I suggest using www.tinyurl.com to compress large URLs next time? Simply go to tinyurl.com and paste in the long link - it instantly returns...