Nancha Bank

A piece of history with a 1992 view of QJ6952 storming up the incredibly steep and curved Nancha bank in Heilongjiang Province, North-East China. The action on both sides of the summit made this area very popular for photography until diesels took over in 1994.

The original slide has the exhaust steam almost entirely blown out in the exposure and yet it has proved possible to recover the detail by careful work on the scan. Following the wishes expressed in the comments, just this once, here is the sound of this train on Nancha Bank.