C2 PROJECT
C2 Photo Album
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photos for the C2 Bling page
One of the locos at Xilin mining railway, with unusually small forestry plate on the cabside (Photo: © Hansjörg Brutzer)
One of the locos at Yabuli Forestry railway, with GongQingTuan plate on the cabside (Photo: © Hansjörg Brutzer)
GongQingTuan emblem, as applied to some C2s (from Wikipedia)
Dashitou forestry railway: a C2 with non-standard forestry plates (Photo: © Robin Gibbons)
Our loco, Dahuichang #4, sporting its earlier narrow cab and a full set of 5 Forestry plates in October 1997 (Photo: © Roger Gillard)
A C2 still working for its living in the 21st Century: a study in undecorated grime (Photo: © Paul Molyneux-Berry)
Archive photo of a C2 at the Jiangxi forestry line in the early 1960s. Note the early application of a forestry logo on the tender (From 'Narrow Gauge Railways of China: Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian Provinces' by John Athersuch, ISBN 978-1-900340-33-5)
Forestry Railway Logos, large and small
Newly-built or overhauled C2 at Harbin Works in 1987 with a full set of 5 forestry plates (Photo: © Mike Jackson)
Newly-built or overhauled C2 at Harbin Works in 1986 with a full set of 5 forestry plates, despite not being destined for a forestry railway - we can tell from the non-standard buckeye couplings. (Photo: © Mick Pope)
Sanchazi Forestry Railway: a highly-decorated loco with a GongQingTuan plate on the tender side (from 'Steam on 4 Continents' Part IV by G.Haslbeck & D. Wardale, ISBN 3-925314-03-2)
C2 at Dunhua with tiny cabside Forestry plates and stencilled Forestry logo on the tender (Photo: © Bill Alborough, colln Rob Dickinson)
Archive photo of a C2 at the Jiangxi forestry line in the early 1960s. Note the early application of a forestry logo on the tender (From 'Narrow Gauge Railways of China: Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian Provinces' by John Athersuch, ISBN 978-1-900340-33-5)
Newly-overhauled C2 at Yeshan Mining Park in 2013, carrying a HongQi plate (Photo: © Robin Gibbons)
Archive photo of a C2 at the Jiangxi forestry line in the early 1960s, with a HongQi plate on the smokebox. (colln John Athersuch)
A nice decoration including a forestry plate at Langxiang Forestry Railway in 1985 (Photo: © Lou Johnson)
An archive photo of one of the forestry railways in Fujian Province, with a decorated loco (colln John Athersuch)
Seen at Suileng Forestry Railway in 1992, loco 021's decoration included the classic features of star and forestry plate (Photo: © David Kitching)
An elaborate smokebox decoration at Tieli Forestry Railway in 1985 (Photo: © Roger Gillard, reproduced from 'East European Narrow Gauge' by Keith Chester)
At an unknown forestry railway, this C2 carries a very attractive combination of Forestry plate, red star and yellow pentagon, with a large red flag below (Photo: ©CRPH, colln Robin Gibbons)
The 'depot pet' at Langxiang Forestry Railway has an excess of boiler bands in both chrome and brass (Photo: © Lou Johnson)
A C2 at the DongFangHong Forestry Railway, with boiler bands picked out in yellow and a white waist-line. (from 'A Picture Album of Steam Locomotives in China', ISBN 7-113-04147-7)
This C2 has a generous helping of three yellow bands on both the chimney and dome. The boiler bands are the standard aluminium version. (from 'A Picture Album of Steam Locomotives in China', ISBN 7-113-04147-7)
This C2 at Tieli Forestry Railway has chrome boiler bands and a painted waist-line. The use of blue as an accent colour was unusual on C2s. (Photo: © Mick Pope)
C2 at Sanchazi Forestry Railway with a non-standard cabside plate. The explanation of that 'thing' on the cab roof will come in a future web page... (Photo: © Bill Alborough, colln Rob Dickinson)
At the Wangdu Local Railway, possibly the ugliest C2 I have ever seen a photo of! They have even put the star decoration on upside-down. (Photo: © Hansjörg Brutzer)
2811 at Xuchang Local Railway, seen here in an archive photo with a full set of bling including QJ-style skyline casing. (colln Robin Gibbons)
Loco 11042 at Xinqing Forestry Railway in the 1980s. I particularly like the space rockets on those huge smoke deflectors. (Photo: © Mike Jackson)
Once we've finished rebuilding our loco, does anyone fancy sponsoring a pair of smoke deflectors? (Photo: © Mike Jackson)
At Weihe, the GongQingTuan plate on the cabside has some other characters beneath. (Photo: © Mark Lanham)
A terrible photo of a photo found online, possibly of a loco at the Huangnihe Forestry Railway in Jilin Province. Here the GongQingTuan plate is on the smokebox.
CR logo plus Mandarin character 'sen'.
C2 at Dunhua Forestry Railway with the sun glinting off a polished brass forestry logo plate. These Jilin Province plates had different proportions from the standard plates. (Photo: © Bill Alborough, colln Rob Dickinson)
Archive photo of a spectacularly decorated C2 in the Dunhua area of Jilin Province. The slogan on the tender reads '70 million people 70 million soldier'. (photo from dhtv.tv)
HongQi plate on the smokebox saddle of a C2 preserved in the city of Harbin; this loco previously operated at Zhanhe Forestry Railway (Photo: © Paul Molyneux-Berry)
Extract from the official history of the Dunhua Forestry Bureau, describing early deliveries of 28t locos. Dunhua’s first three 28t locos were second-hand Polish ones from the 1952 batch, but they received 4 new locos from Harbin in 1959 and a further 3 in 1960. In both cases the Harbin locos are described as ‘HongQi Brand’.
Extract from the proceedings of a conference on narrow-gauge railways in China, which took place in January 1960. This contemporary document gives the specifications for the 28t locos built at Harbin and Shijiazhuang. The entry on the right hand side can be translated as "Similar to the imported Polish KP4, Harbin Forestry Machinery Factory called it the HongQi class loco."
3D printed HongQi plate based on the original in Harbin. Drawn in 3D by Ed, it can be used as a pattern for casting replicas.
Extract from the history of narrow-gauge local railways in Hunan Province, describing the LiLiu Railway. The fleet description can be translated as "there are 9 C4 HongWei steam locomotives, 9 ZM16-4 HongQi steam locomotives, 5 380-horsepower diesel locomotives, and a total of 304 passenger and freight vehicles."
The rectangular bracket on the side of the smokebox of a Harbin C2, now preserved at Changting bus station (formerly the Dahailin Forestry Railway station). (Photo: © Paul Molyneux-Berry)
We have very few photos of 28t locos on the LiLiu Railway, but this one shows a mixed train crossing the most impressive structure on the line.
