2-8-2 JS # 8167 is tackling the 1.0 % grade of the Sandaoling open cast mine railroad with a 700 ton train with coal.

This JS # 8358 is based in Nanzhan and has a much better appearance than the locomotives in the coal mine of Sandaoling. The locomotives of Nanzhan are used for the few trains to the Erjing coal m... (more)

Only minutes before sunset, a 2-8-2 "JS" steamlocomotive is pulling a coal train through the open cast mine of Sandaoling.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 is leaving the loading area (blue loader in the far distance) with a 13 hoppers train of about 700 ton out from the pit to the washery.

JS # 6224 belongs to the second built series of the "Jian She" ("construction") locomotives (# 6201 to 6558, built from 1981 to 1986 at Datong). They have a 53.94 in (1,37 mete... (more)

After new fuel was loaded, the JS # 8167 is shunting with her empty train to the other track to the blue loader.

Although there is a coal bunker with loading facility at Dongbolizhan railway station, the steamlocomotives of the Sandaoling open cast mine railroad are usually supplied with coal at the bottom o... (more)

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad is passing Baerzhan station (also called station 82) with a 700 ton coal train.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad is leaving the loading point (blue silo in the background) with another 700 ton train up to the washery.

Shortly after sunset, a 2-8-2 steam locomotive of the "JS" class is pulling another load of coal out of the open pit of Sandaoling, passing Baerzhan (or number 82) station.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8225 is pushing an empty train from Dongbolizhan down to the open cast coal pit, near the crossing of Dongbolizhan, with a hand-painted crossing sign.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8080 under full steam pressure in the workshop at Dongbolizhan.

This morning, an astonishing large group of photographers and videographers from over the world watched the shift change "ceremony" at the Dongbolizhan station.

Inside the boiler of a 2-8-2 JS steamlocomotive, with tubes removed. View from the smokebox to the firebox. The boiler is stabeld outside the Dongbolizhan workshop.