Chinese Photos - Weihe and Tiefa Galleries Added
13/11/06 16:28 | China - Steam
Two more photo galleries covering the Tiefa Mining Railway and the Weihe Forestry Railway have been added. Most of the pictures were previously on Tractive Efforts but many have been remastered. There are some previously unpublished pictures as well.

Tiefa Mining Railway
Weihe Forestry Railway
Tractive Efforts Hits the Buffers
10/11/06 16:54 | Website
Tractive Efforts is no more. My original Chinese Steam website has now been de-activated. Following the transfer of the Locomotive Lists and Loco Profiles to Railography, the Links, Trip Reports, Maps and Movies have also been moved leaving only the Photo Galleries. These are accessible from within Railography anyway and will remain available until the material has been transferred to Railography galleries. In the short term, anyone attempting to access Tractive Efforts pages will be redirected to Railography.

Tractive Efforts Site History
Chinese Photos - JiTong Railway - Galadesitai to Dabaliang
05/11/06 16:44 | China - Steam
The JiTong Railway was a dream come true. A brand new steam worked main line with an incredibly photogenic mountain section that opened just as the rest of China dieselised. For nine glorious years we scrambled up the hills and exposed miles of film and terabytes of memory recording big steam's last stand. This gallery contains photos taken on the east side of Dabaliang (Jingpeng Pass) during the last few years of steam operation as well as a few pictures of current diesel workings. Many of these pictures have been transferred from Tractive Efforts but a few are published for the first time.

Galadesitai - Dabaliang photos
Chinese Photos - Chengde and Longhua Lines
04/11/06 21:56 | China - Diesel / Electric
Two new photo galleries added covering the Beijing - Longhua and Beijing - Chengde lines, both of which run through mountainous country north-east of the capital. The Longhua gallery features photos of DF4 and DF8B diesels taken in September this year. The Chengde gallery includes pictures of diesels taken in the 1990s and 2006.

Beijing - Longhua photos
Beijing - Chengde photos
German Photos
04/11/06 13:30 | Germany
Photo galleries from my recent visit to Germany have been added and the existing German pictures have been re-arranged on a line by line basis.

Bebra - Fulda photos
Gemuenden - Wuerzburg photos
Kempten - Immenstadt - Oberstdorf / Lindau photos
Bayern (misc) photos
German Trip Report - Electric Freight Corridor - October 2006
01/11/06 22:45 | Germany
This report details a photographic trip to one of the busiest electrified main lines in Germany. The railway north from Würzburg through Gemünden, Fulda and Bad Hersfeld to Bebra runs through hilly country close to the former East German border and funnels traffic from Austria, Italy and Bavaria towards northern Germany. The line lost its express passenger workings to the Würzburg – Kassel Neubaustrecke some time ago but it remains a busy freight route, handling all types of traffic. Many different classes of loco can be seen, including those belonging to DB, Railion and a number of domestic and international competitors.

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