Taken on the Jingpeng pass between JingPeng and Shandian, inner Mongolia China. The train came minutes before the light went off this stretch of the line.
We experienced biting winds and temperatures down to minus 40 degrees centigrade.
Scan from a Fuji Velvia slide taken on a Nikon F90 80-200 F2.8
The JingPeng pass is located on the provincial railway between Jining Nan and Tonglio. When the railway opened it operated around 100 ex China railway 2-10-0 QJ steam locomotives. December 2004 the last steam hauled trains operated over the Jing Peng pass.
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