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| Asembagus No. 11, Orenstein & Koppel 0-6-0T (1920) |
Cepu Forestry Railway 0-10-0 Schwartzkopf “Bahagia”.
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| Olean Mill's Orenstein & Koppel 0-8-0T “Semaru” takes cane wagon empties to fields |
Olean Mill's O &K 0-8-0T No 7 “Hiyang” takes a load of cane back to the mill. |
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| Orenstein & Koppel 0-10-0 Luttermuller engine: Gepol Kerep Mill No. 4 of 1928 |
Eritrean steam! Mallet 0-4 + 4-0T Ansaldo of 1938 442-59 and Breda 0-4-0T 202-010 (1932) standing at Ghinda.
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Eritrean Railway's diminutive Breda 0-4-0T shunter had hardly enough power to take a single van up the gradient.
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Sragi No. 8 is a bit of a mystery. Apart from being 600mm gauge, I can find nothing more
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Orenstein & Koppel Fireless loco No. 2 at Semboro Mill, Java. Semboro use two of these for handling the powdery bagasse, the waste product from the cane, which is a real fire hazard.
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Asembagus's 700mm 0-8-0 O & K dating from 1920, storms out of the cane fields assisted by the track sander at the front.
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A rather recent locomotive for Java's sugar cane standards is this Jung 0-6-0 built in 1961. No. 29 still failed and stranded us 2 miles away from the mill!
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Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-2T of 1923 at Merican Mill, Java |
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Cepu Forestry Railway, Java. 0-10-0 Schwartzkopf (BMAG) “Bahagia” crosses a bridge with a train of “empties”. The 3' 6” gauge system is now only for demonstration as the teak forest has been depleted by log poachers and unsustainable felling. Tourist income is used for replanting.
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Cepu Forestry Railway, Java. 0-10-0 Schwartzkopf (BMAG) “Bahagia” crosses a bridge with a train of “empties”, making a fine silhouette with less exposure than in picture on the left.
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Purodadi Mill's 700mm system used four light blue O & Ks. No. 5 dates from 1920. The mill is awkwardly sited with the yard on the opposite side of a deep river ravine, crossed by a single-track girder bridge.
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O & K 0-8-0 of the Tasik Madoe Mill, Java dating from 1913. The gauge is 750mm.
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A 2-4-0 tank locomotive, B1304, from one of the 3' 6” (1067mm) systems, plinthed outside Cirebon Station on Java's north coast.
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Jatibarang's 600mm gauge diesel looking very smart. The mill also operates five steam engines.
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The Ambarawa Railway Museum in Java is based on the former transhipment point between the standard gauge line from Kedungjati to the north-west and the 3' 6” continuation to Yogyakarta (“Yogya”). It still maintains the 1905-built rack section to Bedono.
A museum employee acts as lookout from the front balcony.
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Ambarawa Railway Museum , Java. A B25 class 0-4-2 RT, built around 1905 is pushing and has reached the top of the rack section, 233m (765ft) long and about 1,000 above Ambarawa.
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| Cepu Forestry Railway 0-10-0 Schwartzkopf “Bahagia”. |
Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-2T of 1923 at Merican Mill, Java |
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Orenstein & Koppel 0-10-0 Luttermuller engine: Gepol Kerep Mill No. 4 of 1928
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Tersana Baru's 1929 DuCroo & Brauns parked in the mill yard
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Purodadi No. 11 (1911).
Purodadi Mill's 700mm system used four light blue O & Ks. No. 5 dates from 1920.
The mill is awkwardly sited with the yard on the opposite side of a deep river ravine, crossed by a single-track girder bridge.
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A 2-4-0 tank locomotive, B1304, from one of the 3' 6” (1067mm) systems, plinthed outside Cirebon Station on Java's north coast.
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Factory shunter, SY0191, at Hangzhou Chemical Works, China around 1979
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Chinese Diesels 0064 and 1732 taken well after sunset, near to Mudangjiang
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DFH 3 diesel at a small depot, probably Aihe , just east of Mudangjiang, north China
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One of the most heroic sights in recent world steam: a QJ with 15 or 16 coaches on sweeps majestically and effortlessly up a gradient near Mudangjiang.
The train has probably originated at Vladivostok over the Russian border.
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Level crossing, traditional Chinese style, near Tumen
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SY 1600, one of the 43 working steam locomotives at the giant 11-level open-caste mine site at Zalai Nuer (Jalanur), near the Siberian border, pauses at the top of the coal washery road in about 2002.
Ironically, because of the demise of steam, this pit is now working at only 40% capacity and may already be closed.
The temperature was around -27C.
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Recently out-shopped Chine Supershine JS 8120 at PingDingShan.
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Line-up at PingDingShan , China . Left to right: QJ 6650, JS 8062 and “Supershine” JS 8120.
Every year the top crew of a depot had the right to decorate their engine with various slogans, which they kept as long as the engine lasted.
Would it be cynical to suggest that they found it wise to choose something patriotic and praising the work ethic? Anyway it made the engines colourful and attractive.
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One of my first Chinese steam photographs from about 1992. A 2-8-2 JS class No. 8482 simmers quietly on a pickup goods turn somewhere between Shanghai and Nanjing.
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A rather recent locomotive for Java's sugar cane standards is this Jung 0-6-0 built in 1961. No. 29 still failed and stranded us 2 miles away from the mill!
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“The wrong side of the tracks” SY 1687 shunts coal wagons at PingDingShan with a scene of unusual squalor and industrial pollution below.
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SY 1769 pulls away from PingDingShan tender first with a scheduled passenger working.
“PingDingShan” translates into “ Flat Topped Mountain ” in English.
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SY 1294 moving briskly, tender first, across a level crossing with a rare passenger working at Zalai Nuer.
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A train headed by two 2-10-2 QJs passes “ Farm Lane crossing” near the summit of the Jingpeng Pass in 2002.
The temperature was -15C with light snow blowing in the strong wind.
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An unidentified pair of QJs coming off the Erdi viaduct (“ Brickworks Valley" ) in the Jingpeng Pass.
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Driver's eye view from the cab of the second QJ as it approaches Si Ying Mi viaduct (aka “Horse Shoe Viaduct”, near the summit of the Jingpeng pass in Inner Mongolia .
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| Typical Soft Class waiting room, China Rail |
PingDingShan station busy in 2002 passing coal traffic and servicing point. The oncoming engine is SY 0435
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Dumped remains of a British-built loco, possibly KF1 class built in 1935 by the Vulcan Foundry, Manchester.
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Making final adjustments. PingDingShan stabling and servicing depot.
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| Cab of a Chinese SJ light mixed traffic engine. |
Engine shed, Olean 's Mill, East Java |
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