Looking down from the eastern rim of the opencast pit with a telephoto lens gives a good impression of the layout of the opencast operation. The square brick buildings above the back of the train are at Ba'erzhan, where the lines serving the Xikeng loader branch off the main line through the pit. The Xikeng loader itself is visible beyond and Xibolizhan is just beyond the rim of the pit above the loader/
JS.8167 worked a loaded train out of the pit on 2 December 2014.