Climbing from Xiahua
The unforgiving Siberian wind was blowing relentlessly across the Manchurian plain, whipping away the twin exhausts of two Huanan Forestry Railway 762mm gauge 'C2' Class 0-8-0s, with No.004 leading, as they have just climbed up the grade away from Xiahua with a modest trailing load of coal from Hongguang mine to Huanan on 31st December 2009, a distance of some 32 kilometres. How this line made a commercial return remains a mystery to me! Unsurprisingly, it did not last, and the last freight ran in April 2011, appreciable timber traffic having ceased in the late-1990s.
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Climbing from Xiahua
The unforgiving Siberian wind was blowing relentlessly across the Manchurian plain, whipping away the twin exhausts of two Huanan Forestry Railway 762mm gauge 'C2' Class 0-8-0s, with No.004 leading, as they have just climbed up the grade away from Xiahua with a modest trailing load of coal from Hongguang mine to Huanan on 31st December 2009, a distance of some 32 kilometres. How this line made a commercial return remains a mystery to me! Unsurprisingly, it did not last, and the last freight ran in April 2011, appreciable timber traffic having ceased in the late-1990s.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission