Locomotive two starts blowing sludge.
| The author in Daban depot before starting to work. |
| Pingzhuang coal mine: One of the German LEW electric engines with adump train on top of the pit. |
| Pingzhuang coal mine: Five trains in one picture. Work trains with SY and coal and stone trains with electric erngines in the pit. |
| The mixed train Yuanbaoshan - Fengshuigou just east of the bridge with JS 8218 in a forest with autumn colors. |
| Daban depot: Two newly arrived supershine engines: QJ 6840 in the foreground, and QJ 6978 in the background. |
| Slag cleaning on a windy day at Daban depot. |
| A freight arriving Daban from west. Just south of the depot is an abandoned brick work. Locomotive two starts blowing sludge. |
| QJ 6735 and 7143, two early Daban eninges, parked at the depot readyfor service towards Haoluku. |
| Galadesitai: A train with empty cars and only one engine on its wayup. The fields still contain corn and sunflowers. |
| The cutting at km 507 on level 2 on the Jingpeng pass: QJ 7112 andone more thunder and smoke through here. |
| Hadashan station and DaWa mountain in the background. QJ 7041+QJ ontheir way towards Shangdian. The new filling the station is situated onis clearly visible. |
| A downbound train starting at Hadashan |
| QJ 6878 + 6517 working up through Hasdashan |
| In the curve from level 1 to level 2 just below Hadashan. Km 480. |
| QJ 6301 with an eastbound freight nearing Gulumanhan from Daban. Theauthor was firing here. |
| QJ 6301 with the same freight hard working at the level crossiong betweenGulumanhan and Chaganhada. Here, steam was open fully and cutoff was 50%.The train has 29 cars, about 2200 tons. |
| QJ 6997 one station west of Haoluku. waiting for a crossing train,on its way towards Baiqi. |