2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8190 with a coal train on the line from the open cast pit at Sandaoling.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 is pulling another about 700 ton coal train up from the open pit mine near "station 82", while JS # 8225 is waiting with an empty train to run back to the... (more)

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8190 with another load of coal storming up the line from the mine to the washery, while another JS prepares to push back her train to the loading point. As we know today... (more)

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8225 is pulling her about 700 ton coal train up the grade in the open pit coal mine of Sandaoling.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8173 is running backwards with an empty train to the loading point in the mine.

The friendly barrier guard at a crossing near Dongbolizhan, on the coal mine railroad of Sandaoling. In his well-heated guard's house, he has a video screen with a view of the road on both sides o... (more)

Chinese trackworkers near the Erjing coal mine of Sandaoling. They were correcting the track position by means of a track measuring rod and a simple straightening machine.

2-8-2 steamlocomotive JS # 8358 near the workshop of Dongbolizhan. This locomotive is used in nearby Nanzhan and for the line from there to the Erjing coal mine. In the background is JS # 8225 of ... (more)

It's about 7 F or -14 Celsius. After the morning shift change the JS # 8225 2-8-2 steamlocomotive of the Sandaoling coal mine railroad is shoving her empty 13 car train back for taking water, befo... (more)

Shortly after sunset, the JS # 8225 2-8-2 leaves the coal washery (discharge point) Xuanmeichang with its pushed empty train back into the open coal pit of Sandaoling.

JS # 8173 2-8-2 steamlocomotive of the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad is pulling the first train of the day shift from the loading point in the pit up to the washery. In the background the about 30... (more)

It's about 7 F or -14 Celsius. The staff of the JS # 8225 2-8-2 steamlocomotive of the Sandaoling coal mine is warming up a frozen valve below the cab with a busket of red-hot coals.

It's about 7 F or -14 Celsius. After the morning shift change the JS # 8190 2-8-2 steamlocomotive of the Sandaoling coal mine is leaving Dongbolizhan as "morning passenger train" down to... (more)

Steam on 3 levels at the huge opencast pit at Sandaoling. 3 JS 2-8-2 locos are seen in 2005.