Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: SY

SY 2-8-2 1581 about to depart from Baiyin Town station with the Baiyin Non-ferrous Metals Company Railway 18.15 workers' train up the valley. The Shizi Street level crossing in the foreground is always very busy with foot and bike traffic.

This last gasp of Chinese steam is no more and as far as is known there are no other regular standard gauge steam-hauled passenger trains left in China. Or the world? The Baiyin Non-ferrous Metals Company 07.50 workers' morning train from Baiyin Town, headed by SY 2-8-2 1581 again, climbs up the valley.

We arrived in Baiyin after our overnight train journey from Hami to Lanzhou and drive from Lanzhou in time to take some shots of the 15.15 workers passenger train from Baiyin to Shenbutong as it blasted up the valley behind SY 2-8-2 1581.