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Grab shot as JS 8167 backed its empty train.

 

A JS isn't exactly pretty, and the Sandaoling mine was't bothered about external appearance, but these were purposeful machines that did their job effectively. In fact, I prefer their looks to the SY 2-8-2.

 

The boiler looks long and thin but a lot of it is firebox. Note the pony truck wheels are smaller than those of the trailing truck. And that profusion of fittings and pipes; George Jackson Churchward (and his successors) would have been horrified.

 

Xinjiang province, China.

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Taken on November 16, 2014