The big breakthrough on our 1989 trip was knowing the times of the Pacific hauled trains. That meant we could be in the right place at the right time on a regular basis. It may not sound like rocket science but railway photography in China in the 1980s generally involved going somewhere for a whole morning or a whole afternoon with an obligatory two hour lunch break in between. To visit several locations on the same day, targetting individual trains, was fairly revolutionary. After photographing the 15:20 departure to Changchun at Jiuzhan, we travelled across the city to Longtanshan to photograph SL 623 pulling away with train 425, the 16:08 Jilin to Wuchang slow passenger. A short bus ride for us but a great leap for gricerkind?