ID help requested for two Chinese steam engines

ctjacks · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:45 pm

I am giving a slide show in a few weeks on my China trip, and I would like help identifying these two engines. The first is a narrow-gauge engine at the museum in Beijing, and the second is a display next to the shops in Daban.

Thanks.

Chris Jacks.

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J.David · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:02 pm

Greetings:
The top photo is a 24 inch gauge Baldwin 0-10-0 that ran until the early 1990s' on a railroad in south China. A sister locomotive is on display in Kuming?
The lower photo is a standard gauge Vulcan Iron Works 2-6-0 from a mining operation in Inner Mongolia. Lettering on the tender of this locomotive says: "Made in England", but this is incorrect, it was built at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. There was a Vulcan Locomotive Company in England, but they didn't build this locomotive.
I hope this helps.
J.David

SR&RL No. 10 · **Joined:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:34 pm **Posts:** 39

For your first 2' guage engine, here's a link for the stats. If go back to to the home page they have a map of the route and towards the bottom of the page, some black and white photos of these 0-10-0 in service.

http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/noz/yunnan/esl_sn23.html

survivingworldsteam · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:54 am

J.David wrote:

Greetings:
The top photo is a 24 inch gauge Baldwin 0-10-0 that ran until the early 1990s' on a railroad in south China. A sister locomotive is on display in Kuming?
The lower photo is a standard gauge Vulcan Iron Works 2-6-0 from a mining operation in Inner Mongolia. Lettering on the tender of this locomotive says: "Made in England", but this is incorrect, it was built at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. There was a Vulcan Locomotive Company in England, but they didn't build this locomotive.
I hope this helps.
J.David

J. David;

Thank you for your notes about the RN and YJ classes. To return the favor:

I have three of the SN class 0-10-0 class locomotives listed:

* The one in the Bejing Museum is #23, Baldwin 59262?/1924.
* #29 is at Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, China.
* #26, Baldwin 59299/1926 is at the Shanghai Railway Museum. I THINK this was the one that was stored at Kuming; I need to look at past reports.

The 2-6-0 on display (MG8 4335) is now thought to be Vulcan Iron Works 2433/1918 from the Lung-Hai Rlwy.

A shameless plug: pictures and details of the locomotives in the Bejing Museum, the 2-6-0, Shenyang Railway Museum as well as other locations in China are found on my Surviving World Steam Locomotive CD-ROM.

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