Decorated QJ 7035 backed down onto train 44, the 08:35 Lanzhou - Beijing passenger, at Zhongwei on 5 January 1990. The loco would haul the train to Shizuishan, 264km to the north, part of an unbroken chain of steam haulage that had started in Lanzhou and would continue to Hohhot, almost 1150km in total.