Freight train hauled by two QJ steam locos - Oct 2005

At Lindong, Inner Mongolia, China, this freight train was double headed with two 2-10-2 QJ steam locos, no. 6891 and 7048. This was filmed during the last months of steam hauled freight train services whilst on a Railway Touring Company trip to China in October 2005

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Autos & Vehicles

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• steam
• train
• QJ
• China

[skyraiderjet]

So if a railroad wanted a buy a QJ or some other steam locomotive from China, it should be relatively cheap because there are being replaced right?

[hughrobertwright]

@skyraiderjet I think these two QJ locomotives made it to the USA and were preserved but most would have been sold for scrap as the value of scrap metal is high

[Densworldofvideos]

Well don't forget to come over to my place Densworldofvideos

[hughrobertwright]

good videos of the cockatoo, quite a similarity to here in West London UK where we have flocks of several hundred bright green ring neck parakeets along the River Thames that were also originally cage birds.

[patana07]

Is this real freight? I meaning paying customer to pull these freights?

[hughrobertwright]

as far as I know the freight train was run for customers who were paying for goods to be carried. Soon after this video was taken, by the end of 2005, steam locomotives of this type were replaced by diesel.

[Xantec]

not in mainline service but two are preserved in the usa

[KnightsHospitallerBC]

@skyraiderjet No more! China had dismantled all of its QJs after 2008!

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

one thing strange about chineas steam they are a coppy of pre world one US steamit lloks funny the red boxpox drivers onthat type of engine were as the amed N>&W> and NKP had spoke drivrs and most notiblee and there waas a pictire the ast steam built had Worthington feedw ater heater and pump I believe the Russin copyed it they shsould mentioned in a Nat Geograuic usedon most US steam from l930 to the end about tow thirds of al l US steam itted on some old enginesI m still shocked about it

[Xantec]

@kickflip1234100

yes as far as i am aware.

I dont particularly care that they are chinese, its the fact that they are still running, thats what i like to see :) though they could do with some K5LA horns instead of the ones they have

[kickflip1234100]

@Xantec yeah, arent they owned by iowa interstate or something like that?

[TomNall]

Two QJs are at home on the Iowa Interstate, which is the old Rock Island RR Illinois Division. Check out here on YouTube - for example, "QJ crossing the Mississippi RIver...."

[peiyuwhu]

@skyraiderjet many of this steam locomotives are dismantled and sold as scrap iron,some are sold to mines and industry works as shunter engine。

[skyraiderjet]

What happens to the Qj locomotives after they are replaced? Could they possibly be sold to another railway?

[notBMW18]

That must be a long train; thats a lot of horsepower right there.