Chinese Steam Locomotives

steaminfo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:54 pm

Today we've begun adding Chinese steam locomotives to http://www.steamlocomotive.info. We have information on about 2900 and we believe the list to be less than 3 years out of date. At least I hope that is true. You can browse around China using the following url:

http://steamlocomotive.info/china.cfm

I've managed to enter about 110 locomotives this morning, and will do more as time permits. Also have data for about 1200 locomotives in Russia, which I'll attack after I finish the China festivities.

Enjoy (or not, your choice)

Regards,
Doug

PaulWWoodring · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:33 pm

Not one QJ showing stored or operational in all of China! In '87 when I was there we'd joke, ho-hum, another set of double-headed QJ's. Who'd of thought that 20 years later you'd have to go to Iowa to see two QJ's together!

Thanks for doing the grunt work of putting that directory together.

steaminfo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:50 pm

PaulWWoodring wrote:

Not one QJ showing stored or operational in all of China! In '87 when I was there we'd joke, ho-hum, another set of double-headed QJ's. Who'd of thought that 20 years later you'd have to go to Iowa to see two QJ's together!

Thanks for doing the grunt work of putting that directory together.

You're very welcome. There are QJ's but they have yet to be entered. I've gotten through about 250 of the nearly 3000 I need to enter.

Doug

tomgears · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:02 am

Doug,

Thanks for all of your hard work! I really enjoy the website. I have added a number of photos from China. I'll add more as I find them.

Merry Christmas,

Tommy

Steve Singer · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:04 am

None of the splendid SL & RM Pacifics operational either. Lots of cab rides on those in the early & mid 80s.

Dave Lewandoski · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:58 pm **Posts:** 1083

thanks for all of your efforts sir! Merry Christmas

steaminfo · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:10 pm

Thanks for the kind words. I'm still working on the site after 7 years. How weird is that? Anyhow, I've completed data entry for close to 900 locomotives so I'm about a third of the way through. I'm pretty sure that this list dates to somewhere around 2006, which means that it shows a LOT of locomotives as operational, when they aren't anymore. I'm sure more knowledgeable people than I will send corrections.

Doug

steaminfo · **Posted:** Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:46 am

Well, I'm up to 1471 locomotives entered for China. Just about the half-way mark. Hope to get another 500 or so input today. Some interesting questions have come up as a result of this data entry, but I'll address them in another thread.