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The morning passenger train has just arrived at Pingdingshan mine railroad station and people are carrying their New Year's shopping bags home while the steamer in charge is shunting away in the background.
Taken by my grandfather near the family holiday retreat in Puchberg am Schneeberg, also well known for its steam rack railway up to 2000m Mount Schneeberg. At that time steam also still dominated the branch line to Puchberg seen here. One of the kids is my father.
Scenes like decades ago can still be relived on the many greatly preserved museum lines in the UK, here is one shining example: Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway in southern England.
Just a great scene you can only find in China: the cooling towers of a coal power station behind a steam loco bringing coal to the station (and fuelled by the coal) behind an electrician of the loco shed trying to repair a light bulb contact - powered by the power station in the background! ;-)
The Frisco 4018, the very last steam loco on the whole Frisco line to run regular service, is set to be lifted on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 onto a mulitwheel transport. The plane is to move the tender via surface roads and the engine via CSX East across town to Sloss Furnace, where it is hoped...
The Frisco 4018, the very last steam loco on the whole Frisco line to run regular service, is set to be lifted on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 onto a mulitwheel transport. The plane is to move the tender via surface roads and the engine via CSX East across town to Sloss Furnace, where it is hoped...
The Frisco 4018, the very last steam loco on the whole Frisco line to run regular service, is set to be lifted on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 onto a mulitwheel transport. The plane is to move the tender via surface roads and the engine via CSX East across town to Sloss Furnace, where it is hoped...
The Frisco 4018, the very last steam loco on the whole Frisco line to run regular service, is set to be lifted on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 onto a mulitwheel transport. The plane is to move the tender via surface roads and the engine via CSX East across town to Sloss Furnace, where it is hoped...
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