Sorry Bernd, i never got to read your post about the QJ's before i left Pingdingshan otherwise i would have had a look. I ended up back in Tiefa for 3 days. I...
You may remember that early summer reports from Shibanxi wrote of 1-2 C2 locos from the closed Pengzhou system north of Chengdu heading for Shibanxi to...
Hello everyone, Further to my last posting, i have added some more images of my October 1998 visit to China to my fotopic site "Steam and the Dragon". These...
I'm thinking of including Yanzhou in my next gricing trip to China but I can't find a half decent map of the area. SY Country is sadly lacking in this...
Just received an SMS from Duncan Cotterill: Hukudao has 2 x DF10D, all JS stopped, one SY remains on shunts. Another one bites the dust :-( Bryan Acford...
Hukudao?? Where is that, is it a new location? Colin Hussey ... _________________________________________________________________ New music from the Rogue...
That's strange! Your message is entitled Re. Huludao. You really must get your message titles correct!! Colin Hussey <cdhussey@...> wrote: Hukudao??...
Yep! very strange, I did do a straight reply to to post, but was citing the information that was contained within it. Someone it seems could not get the post...
Hi everybody, Does anyone have news on the current status of these narrow gauge lines? Last I heard was that Yinghao was not running, for reasonons unknown,...
Oops....... in the rush to get to lunch a typo, yep - K & L are adjacent on my keyboard and I should of checked, sadly HULUDAO has finished. I must just be...
Yes remember as a hardcore gunzel, you must have everything pedantically perfect! Or the wrath, and foam, and dribbles, of every self respecting railfan be...
Bryan We all suffer the same things, & the old Ode makes you wonder "age shall not weary them" Certainly I suffer the same. Those keyboards certainly seem...
Roughly a year ago (December 2006 – January 2007) I did a solo industrial steam tour of North East China with guide Mike Ma. Following the trip, I finished a...
Hi all I was with a group of six guided by Mike Ma from Nov 16 - 29, 2007 and, pending a fuller report on SY-Country, I can update John on Nanpiao (Nov 27 -...
Dave Thanks for this update. The latest from Huludao (as posted on SY Country) is: Steam News (December 7th 2007) Huludao Message from Duncan Cotterill: ...
SY 0341 was also active at Hengshan on 1 Dec. SY 0804, 0898 and 1095 were also in use that day. We were told that most of the steam work is now at Xiaohengshan...
Antwerp, Belgium, 13/12/2007, Hello, Very sad news indeed... Surly if you just got to see these amazing video's: The video's are all made in the end of...
News from Sichuan railway guide Zebedee (zebedee_chinaAThotmail.com) received 16 December 2008. Shibanxi 10-14 December Locos 7, 9, 10 & 14 have been joined by...
Gents, I am compiling a magazine article for the UK railway press on the subject of the USATC S100 class locos and I would appreciate any photos of XK2...
Gents, Thanks to all who have replied to my query so far. I would welcome any further information on extant XK2 locos in China or indeed elsewhere, such as in...
S160 simply means superheated, weight of 160,000 lbs. Alco applied this in the form of a small plaque visible in the photo when they took their builders...
The locomotives exist, it is just that the so-called classes never existed. You are fooling yourself if you think they did. Gents, Thanks to all who have...
Ok Doug, one assumes you have some reasons for your comments about the S100 & S160 Classes possibly you would be good enough to enlighten us as to your reasons...
There is no official class. There were some common designs used by more than one railroad, and the builders had some stock designs which they could build ...
These were US Army Transportation Corps designations, if I am not mistaken: See these websites: http://orion.math.iastate.edu/jdhsmith/term/slusatc.htm ...
I do not believe that to be the case. They were Alco (and only Alco) figures that were used to tell the engine weight and whether or not the locomotive was...
