Taken
from the middle of the frozen Hunjang-River, one of the many
freights with JS-Class 2-8-2 passes west of Tonghua. March, 1994
Few
visitors that travelled through
China back in 1994 would have expected the country rising to one
of the worlds leading economic powers within only a decade,
given the poverty and economic backwardness of rural China at
that time. An JS rushes with the daily Baihe-Tonghua fast train
past a farmer village between Hunjang and
Tonghua.
Abundant
coal and iron reserves were in the area around Tonghua, and the
city had iron- and steelworks. Therefore, coal was, as elsewhere
in China, the main good transported on the railroad.
A JS
hustles with a lengthy, Hunjang-bound passenger past a tipical
Manchurian town east of Tonghua. The river in the background was
deep frozen even at the beginning of March and thus offered direct
access from the highway on the opposite side of
the river.
