Interestingly, their passenger locomotive is a second-hand copy
“based on a Soviet design, which itself was based on an American design for a train that used to run along the Hudson River in the 1930’s”. I take that to be a NYC Hudson. If it is a copy, I wonder what they had to compromise to lower the axle loading for their rails.
It’s too bad they cropped the pictures from the print edition to fit the Web page.
I think a number of British railfans have been out there to film the steam trains. They’ve even built a new line in the 1990’s that was equipped with all the infrastructure for steam trains and go old fashioned semaphore signals. But now the diesels are taking over.
I read that article too. The engine shown had a more American looking front end than some.
Seems to me there are some very experience steam guys in China whose skills will not be used there anymore; with so many American museums having their steam engines down for boiler or flue time, or about to go down, I wonder why they don’t pool their resources and bring these guys over to help out. Money is only part of the problem for some of these operations.
Dave Nelson
I thought why not get some rich guy to send the plans for a NYC J-3 Hudson and have them build a replica? After that, how about a Niagara? That’s making good use of Chinese labor. Don’t you think?
Everyplace has some steam that can be ridden on for ‘excursion’ purposes.
The steam that is being talked about in this thread is the last Steam that is being used in everyday revenue service…just like was occuring in the US in the 40’s and 50’s.
The locomotive illustrated is a QJ 2-10-2 , QJ 7063. These were used for both freight and passenger traffic on the Jing Peng line. These are an interesting design, but are a Russian design drawing on US locomotives imported in the early 1930s.
I don’t know if 2-10-2s ran on the Hudson River NYC lines, but they were not the same design as the QJ which is the work of L S Lebedyanski , the chassis of the Russian LV with a boiler adapted from the P34 2-6-6-2.
These were quite tall but were relatively light but would be suitable for Western US lines if anyone wanted a big 2-10-2.
In Outer Mongolia they have had only Russian diesels for many years now.