China
- Jan 2007
The Diary
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Ice
skating on the Tiefa system |
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Grand
departure |
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The
birds scatter in the misty coolness |
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There
is a neat coaling and watering area opposite the main station at
Tiefa for the remaining locos |
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Dragon
ladies block the gates at Tiefa |
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Steam
action at Tiefa - SY departing at left, preserved YJ at right |
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Tickets
please! |
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Preserved
american KD6 running an excursion on the Faku line, which has
been dieselised for a while |
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And
again |
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And
again! bursting from the tunnel on the line |
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Back
at the main station, the locos refresh |
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Departure
from Tiefa |
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Out
at the mines, diesels now handle all the coal trains, leaving
the substantial number of passenger trains to the handful of
active SYs |
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Out
by the Church |
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Night
shooting with Ron Olsen's flashes |
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The
YJ gets a headlight bulb replaced |
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Serenity |
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Next
morning we're out by the church again watching the YJ on a
special run |
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While
the SYs continue to toil on the regular passengers |
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1999
build plate on SY 1771, which is stored with many, many, many SYs
in covered storage at Tiefa workshops |
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The
YJ again out for a run |
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Nicely
attired SY 1770 on one of the passenger trains |
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Jean-Philippe
makes a minor technical adjustment to his video camera with a
sledgehammer |
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And
lastly, SY1772, the last SY assembled, heads out on the Faku
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Jixi
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After
arrival at the Jixi system, |
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Coal
mines are painted pink, not that there's anything wrong with
that, and the motorbikes have built in hand warmers |
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A
well decorated SY |
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Shunting
at the main yard |
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A
tough life |
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The
sun goes down at Jixi |
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Wheelspin |
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Next
morning we catch a crewmember making some adjustments on the air
pump of his steed |
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Big
power with a pair of SYs thumping empties out to the mines |
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Another
train of empties with an SY at either end |
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The
same train again |
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Crossings |
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Another
train banked at the rear slogs up to another mine on the system |
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the
pusher on the above train |
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Whoops.
DB too slow to catch the loco running by on the line
behind |
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View
out from above somewhere |
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I
really can't remember the names of any of these lines, can I... |
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Running
back past the cornfields |
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The
dentist at the Didao mine (ha remembered a place!) |
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Didao
has this interesting narrow gauge electric tramway for shuffling
spoil and coal around |
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Playing
with the pantograph |
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Loading
at the bin |
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Next
morning, we wait by the Chengzihe washery complex for shots but
DB screws everything up by being in the right place at the wrong
time and vice versa. |
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Out
of the sun towards the washery in the shot I'd waited a couple
of hours for but now the sun is a bit high |
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With
an interesting church in the background |
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Up
the hill at the Didao spoil dump, strings of empties are rope
hauled up the incline and run down into a curved unloading spur.
After running through the tippler, they congregate on the lower
curved track for a run back downhill |
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The
loaded rake is swarmed by locals in search of coal remnants.
Avast, landlubbers, arrrr! |
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Searching
for goodies |
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The
tippler complex and two further inclines up to the spoil dumps |
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The
tippler building. After tipping, the coal truck runs toward the
camera down a slope, across spring loaded points and up a grade,
it then swings downhill and takes the points to the left where
it joins the other empty bins |
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After
a long wait up the incline we finally glimpse a train arriving
at the coal dump |
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The Diary
Pics page 1 : Baiyin
Pics page 2 : Baotou
Pics page 3 : Huludao
Pics page 4 : Factory 701
Pics page 5 : Jixi and Tiefa *****
Pics page 6 : JalaiNur
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