Lots of snow at the top of the pass.
Coal loading at dawn.
Heading up the pass with every siding loaded with a westbound waiting for us.
Eastbound passenger train heads to Chabuga with a single QJ.
Water servicing of westbound freight in late evening.
The Jitong Railway is scheduled to drop the fires of its last steam locos on December 9 or 10, 2005. Steam is already banished from the famous Jingpeng Pass, making shots such as this now imposs... (more)
A pair of QJ's steam off into the sunset as they cross the frozen river to the west of the town known to railfans as Jingpeng, but correctly called Keqi.
Early morning sun glints off the rods of a servicing QJ.
Late evening shot of eastbound near Simingyi Bridge.
QJ's simmer in the night at the coaling facility of Chabuga.
Eastbound Erupts from Tunnel 2-one of seven on Jingpeng Pass.
Westbound led by a highly decorated QJ is seconds from the summit.