Chinese QJ steam locomotives 15 Sept 2006
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Two locomotives. Overkill but photogenic and nice to hear. Been there, seen them, sigh.
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Was in the nighttrain GuangZhou-Beijing november 1995. We slowly overtook a TRIPLE QJ (QianJin) headed freightrain going in the same direction. Spectacular.
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@Trainbrain1949 Then how come the 611 is in a museum then out on the mainline "producing very little smoke?" Food for thought.
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I'd like to ride behind a QJ sometime. (Or better yet, in the cab of one!)
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Seen these type in 1986 hauling freight beteen Tianjin and Peking.
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@PurpleKnightSaber I think they are kept at the headquarters of the Iwoa Interstate Railroad
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@hughrobertwright you were so luckey to have got to see them on home rails I was just in China in November to see the last steam locomotives still working all be it in coal mines and a steel mill and one 2 foot narrow gauge line but we were origionall supposed to see at least 2 QJ on that line in Mongolia all for a charter to pull our China Orient Express train but that part never happened due to expense the only QJs I saw in China was in Bejing in a railroad muselm..
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I don't think we will see too many of these in the US. Look at the amount of smoke they produce. N&W 611 an older and larger locomotive produces very little smoke!
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I love the Iowa Interstate
Nice to see two of these locomotives still running and preserved - I went to China in October 2005 to see them running on freight services in Inner Mongolia just before they were withdrawn from service. The whistles sound different to how they were in China, must have been modified to suit US rules.
hughrobertwright 4 years ago 4
bro those are classic Milwaukee Road Coaches, have you seen the Cedar Rapids Sky top Lounge?
Idiot
franklinterrier 3 years ago 3