The main yard at Changchun was just north of the station and freights leaving for Siping would power through the centre roads at regular intervals. Getting onto the platforms to photograph the spectacle wasn't easy but we managed to escape from the soft class waiting room on 3 April 1988 and got a couple of trains before being rounded up and herded back.
QJ 6882 made a fine sight as it accelerated a long southbound freight through the station. The loco was transferred from Changchun to Da'anbei in the 1990s and then spent its final years based at Daban on the Jitong Railway.