Peitun, near Xuzhou in central China, was famous for its fleet of high deflector QJs but an influx of diesels finished the last few off in late 2004. We arrived on 31 December 2004 to find SY 2024 the only steam loco left on the railway. This was the last of 24 SYs built at Jinan Works in the late 1980s and early 1990s.