tarboat's photos with the keyword: dongchang

Busy times at morning shift change in the colliery yard at Dongchang on the Chengzihe system of the Jixi Coal Railway.

It really was fun to stand around in the snow at Dongchang Colliery watching the servicing of the locomotives at shift change. At this point the it was time to return to duties and SY 1058 makes a brisk start heading for the washery at Beichang.

The billhoarding by the level crossing at Dongchang on the Jixi Coal Railway has seen a change between the dates of the two images. That at the top was taken in December 2008 and the lower shot in December 2009. The double unit main line electric locomotive and coal hoppers has been replaced with and army of railway staff marching in front of two of the DC electric locomotives that Jixi has bought from the Pingzhuang opencast mine in the Mongolian Autonomous Region. Somebody has repainted the hut and wall too. Of course there is no sign yet of the electric infrastructure to allow these locos to take to the tracks and they remain in a fenced compound at the nearby Nancheng yard. As for the message on the posters, I don't know, but perhaps others can assist with a translation.