Filed under: Chinese Steam Trains, Steam Picture of the Week
Hi all,
Still cleaning up my Black and White photographs and have now arrived In China and thought you might like this one taken at Shenyang up in the north east of the country. This is one of a number of railway yards in the city. This is one of the many QJ. class 2-10-2s number 137, one of the early models, we were to see numbers in the 6000 series being built at Datong works, that was the size of the fleet at this date, they could haul huge weights and did any work thrown at them. On the next road is QJ 141.
The train leaving is destined for Harbin on this very busy main line. Two men can be seen servicing the lights on the overhead gantry on what was a bitterly cold day, it was bad enough for us waiting on a bridge but must have been even worse up there.
