Ben Kletzer Wrote:
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> I finally got around to editing a few photos from
> my 2015 trips to photograph the last steam trains
> in China. While China has largely been ignored by
> American railfans since the end of steam on
> Jingpeng Pass in 2005, the PRC remains the best
> steam destination in the World. No other country
> can match China for sheer number or size of
> operable locomotives hauling revenue freight and
> occasional passenger trains.
>
> The two best locations for REAL steam in China
> (and thus the world) are Fuxin in Liaoning
> (Northeast China) and Sandaoling in Xinjiang (the
> far west of China). Here are two shots from these
> locations.
>
> Sandaoling, February 2015:
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> [www.railpictures.net]
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> Fuxin, May 2015:
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> [www.railpictures.net]
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......The Chinese harvesting organs from prisoners; persecuting Falun Gong, occupying and presecuting Tibet, and the Uighurs. Censoring the Internet, and artists like ai weiwei; not to mention militarizing the Spratly Islands in the Phillipine Sea!