The Shenyang Local Railway, or Hushitai Mining Railway, ran from a connection with the Shenyang - Changchun main line at Xintaizi, 42km north of Shenyang Bei, to Hushitai, around 24km to the south, where there was no physical connection to the main line. This was one of many local railways dotted around north-east China that primarily served the coal mining industry. In the days before buses became the preferred method of transporting the proletariat to their places of work, many of these lines ran passenger trains at shift change times and the Hushitai operation was no exception.
One of the line's four locos, SY 1247, was photographed leaving Xintaizi with a morning passenger working on 20 January 1994, with the CNR main line visible to the left of the loco.