Nach Monaten der Prüfung, startete am 08.01.2011 der touristischen Rest des Patagonieexpress in eine neue Saison. Etwa 30 Passagiere, darunter eine englische Reisegruppe, nahmen an diesem Event teil. Der Zug fuhr bis Viedma, wo die Fahrgäste am Nachmittag mit Bussen zu den Höhlenmalereien, zu Wildbeobachtungen und zu einem Picknick fuhren. Danach ging es ebenfalls mit [...]

Here are some photo’s that I had uploaded

I have updated my web site with pictures from my trip this november See the New Galleries section ay www.dorneyphoto.com Looking forward to visting Huanan next May in warm weather for different pictures to that in the winter !! Ian Silvester

JS 8221, 8222, 6205 all withdrawn since my last visit in 2009. Locomotives used before on line to Liushuquan: All withdrawn. 8027 not seen 6265 not seen Engines in use down below: JS 8040, 8076, 8078, 8081, 8167, 8173 with brass plate on cab side, good looking, 8188, 8190, 8193, 8194, 8195, 8225, 6436 on [...]

They have 23 steam locomotives, 20 JS and 3 SY. SY 1504 reported by me before is wrong: Must be 1304. They use 11 JS on stone trains through Xibolizhan and 3 on coal trains. They use all SY on the worker train and other work trains. They use one JS on the spreader. They [...]

Jiayuguan-Jingtieshan: Service seems to be all DF4B (Jiayuguan). Seen engines 7011, 7184 and 9175. But the whole line is now electrified and to be opened electric in December or January. Incline is up to 18 per thousand, and a DF4 goes up with 20 six axle cars (600 tons), down with 2500 tons weight. Speed [...]

The line Jining-Baotou is now electrified, but all passenger service is with DF4DK or DF4B orange color. Freights at least every 10 minutes every direction with SS4 (Baotou depot) or the new AC-engines HXD 10xxx (Bombardier 9600kW TRAXX engines BoBo+BoBo) or HXD 20xxx (made by Alstom, looking like the French freight engines). The red engines [...]

DF4DK 3324, 3325 (Dalian 2007), 3327, 3329, 3330, 3331, 3333 DF4D 4054 out of order, 4089, 4171, 4172, 4175, 4178 ”qing nian wen ming hao”, 4148, 4171, 4238 (from 2005), 4246, 4255, 4257, 4261, 4270, 4289, 4291, 4292, 4298, 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305, 4308, 4309 DF8B 0176, 0223, 0224, 0225, 0230, 0236, 0239, 0240, 0282, [...]