Steve Singer was kind enough to share some photos of this railway with me. It is one of my favorites and with Steve's permission I am sharing it with ya'll

Ray Montgomery

http://www.geocities.com/karenandraymontgomery/ChineseRailwayPage.html
mont3682@bellsouth.net

What has happened to this line? I believe it was shut down, but was it dismantled? What happened to the equipment?

ryarger@rypn.org

> What has happened to this line? I believe it
> was shut down, but was it dismantled? What
> happened to the equipment?
Follow up to my photo see this link.


http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/noz/yunnan/ezh-idx.
mont3682@bellsouth.net

> Follow up to my photo see this link.
Last I heard (a couple years ago) the line had been lifted from Jijie through the first tunnel. The remainder at that time was intact. two 0-10-0s were preserved- one at Kunming station & one at the Beijing railway museum. Would have made a nice tourist line.

When I arrived in April 1989, loco #23 had broken and was being shut down. I managed to get a few shot of it while still in steam. Loco #29 soldiered on alone from that day until abandonment.
This line used to have extensive passenger service, as a rode between Jijie & Gejiu was not completed until 1985.

bas1210@comcast.net

Was this the narrow-gauge logging line that Paul Theroux rode and wrote about in his book "Riding the Iron Rooster"?

> Was this the narrow-gauge logging line that
> Paul Theroux rode and wrote about in his
> book "Riding the Iron Rooster"?
No, this line was in Yunnan Provence near the Vietnamese border. No logging there. Main traffic was coal to the smelter at Gejiu & tin ingot back to the meter gauge interchange at Jijie.

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