Chinese QJ Doubleheader Record Setting Freight

[STICKGUYMB]

Does Iowa Interstate use these steam locomotives for regular service? Not just excursions or tourist attractions?

[essartee76]

I try to enjoy this but I hate everything about China. The whistles are terrible!

[TheBeechingAxe]

what are them commie locos doin runnin on amerikan rail?

[jbag4795]

@TheBeechingAxe The Chinese sold them to the IAIS for a profit, so I wouldn't quite call that the Commie way. These things were in production until the 1980s, making their boilers the most modern in the world and in the best condition, with dirt cheap restoration costs and plenty of available parts (it's almost impossible to find them for old American ones). American engines are prettier and cooler, but they cost millions more to maintain. Less than patriotic, but they're running steam today.

[PereMarquette1223]

Looks like the audio got a little screwed up there in the beginning.

[rockguitarist946]

those look so weird pulling american rolling stock, man. you would expect those wimpy two axles carts the europeans use

[sgprailfan]

So this was a photo train? still cool since there were no helpers

[bigbdog32]

What a magnificent sight! GO IRON ROOSTER!

[arkansastrash320]

Wish this had stayed till the train passed.Nice video

[shininghappyperson7]

oh cool!

[Cyclist051]

Some fabulous scenes here. Real classics, but captured in our day! I can hardly believe the scene in Davenport, with the incredible one-time double-head running through town, on that great open stretch, and you were the only one there to watch. Hard to fathom. The smoke clouds in a couple of those scenes are almost surrealistically ominous the way they roll up and over you.

[shininghappyperson7]

thats weird i never knew there were chinese steam locos in the us ......COOL!!!!!!!!!

[BSmith2277]

These engines may have been built in China, their pedigree is pure American.

So I do not see a Chinese steam, just an US steam loco built in a far away place.

[dave3981]

I cant believe how much you use the whistle and horn in the US. One long blast is all we use in Australia.

Great to see these QJ's though.

[iain152c2i]

some of the code :

1 long = brakes set

2 long = proceeding forward

3 short = backing up

2 long 1 short 1 long= aproaching a public crossing ( begun at the whistle post and last blast held until the locomotive actually reaches the crossing.)

One town in which I used to live had so many crossings close together that some engineers held one blast all the way through town.

[Seregium]

in Russia are different!

1 long = start or proceeding forward or hi!

1 short = slower(for second locomotive)

2 short = faster (for second locomotive)

3 short = stop

2 long = brakes off

3 long = brakes on

1 long 1short 1 long = left way proceeding

1 long 3 short = alarm!

[mecrazy5]

@colinroxanduknowit

"people r dum here"

You're the dumb one.

[DC4916]

These ex-China Rail QJ's must be extremly powerful engines! I would like to see these running in Australia where we have grades similar to the Ji Tong railway, but sadly this is unlikely. :-(

Does anyone have an update on what these engines are doing around the U.S now? I want to come up and see them in action!

[dtsalek]

They are owned by the Iowa Interstate R.R. and from what I have heard, operate a couple times a year. Last year they ran excursion trains with them for flood relief, and donated the proceeds to charity. I do not know for sure if they are used for dinner trains or whatnot when they are 'fired up" each year. I'll keep you posted.

[omyajt]

I thought the same thing about the whistles. But what a sight.

[TommyBNSF]

SWEET!!! I wish they would come to Chicago one day, but CSX and Metra better grow steam hearts.

[gaycowboy31]

wow that scene at :52 if one used some imagination could be two Rock island double headers passing that perfect depot scene

[SLSF1522]

Nice video. Those locomotives look really good but they really need deaper whistles.

[bnsf261]

yea, maybe a southern 3chime or a nyc 6 chime

[gaycowboy31]

I agree but those are authentic to Chineese locomotives..I will be pulled by the last two surviving running QJ locomotives this November when I go to China rideing over the Jing Ping pass line and also will several smaller surving locomotives working in mines and mills

[steamtrammetje]

Great video.