Real Chinese Locomotive

In Australia, we now buy a lot of Chinese trains. Not so much single locos, but coaches for passengers.

And now they are going to build our HS2 super train fast link in the UK.

Ooh the shame of it in the land that invented the railway.

many thanks for posting that link. There seems to me, much more development going

on in other countries as related to high speed trains.

I had no idea how much.

One item I am beginning to notice is how much China's Quality Control is slipping on

manufactured goods lately. Hopefully this is only for lower cost items such as toys

and "home entertainment" products and not high speed railway equipment.

thanks again for keeping us up to date!!!

There's a handful of Chinese steam locomotives in the US as well.

 did you know that there was a Steam loco made in England for China 

I did include this in my photos from my day out in our York Railway Museum 

when we saw all 6 A4 locos if any of you folks saw my photos 

Interesting, and probably a fairly good locomotive, too. The Chinese are building moon rockets and their own aircraft carriers now.  From what I have seen, they can and do build very well-engineered and well-made stuff when they set their minds to it: any problems US toy train manufacturers have with Chinese manufacturers are basically due to non-technical production and business-practice issues.

China should have a quality locomotive.

They bought up much of the US scrap steel these past few years.

They have excellent material to build it from.

I saw them. That was a 4-8-4. She looked kinda small to me but she towered over everything around her.

The Chinese 4-8-4 is not a monster but it is bigger than the Gresley and other locos you saw because, well, they were fairly small (if powerful and fast) locos.  I saw that same loco somewhere but not at that museum, if I remember right, when I was in England a few years ago.  The Chinese 4-8-4 seems small onlywhen compared to Northerns in the US, some of which, particularly the ATSF and such, were indeed monsters.  I understand it was a fairly good loco, too.

Yep, big American steamers wouldn't fit on overseas railroads.

Many were narrow gauge or "Cape Gauge" in Africa. Clearances were limited, and so were axle loadings. Some Beyer-Garratt articulateds, especially East African Railways Class 59, were roughly equivalent to a certain Webmaster's Nickel Plate Berkshire. But that Berkshire was standard gauge and had twice the axle loadings.

When the Strasburg Rail Road built a freight loading/unloading facility at the north end of the parking lot, the curve at Lehman Place Junction had to be widened and the "one and only wooden bridge - darn near 16' long" replaced with a concrete bridge to accommodate modern 100-ton cars.