|
|
Highlights of "Rail
Ride for Flood Relief" to benefit The Salvation Army's flood relief
and recovery efforts in Iowa and Illinois; October 18-19, 2008:
(Event sponsors: City of Rock Island, Hy-Vee, Midwest Graphics Management,
BNSF Railway, Iowa Interstate Railroad and RDC.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Corman
rolls out a red QJ
(PDF 437k)
| TRAINS Magazine | August 2008
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Corman to break in QJ on Saturday
(PDF 19k) |
20 May 2008
|
|
|
|
Preservation:
More Chinese steam arrives
(PDF 120k)
| TRAINS Magazine | April 2008
|
|
|
|
Rock
Island 'QJs'!
(PDF 1.2M)
| Steam Railway | 31 Jan-24 Feb 2008
|
|
|
|
Dreams
of steam
(PDF 245k)
| Kentucky.com | 17 January 2008
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Chinese steamer, bound for Corman, arrives stateside
(PDF 53k)
| 3 January 2008
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Chinese steam locomotive ready for trip to U.S.
(PDF 20k) |
29 October 2007
|
|
|
|
Highlights of the QJ
steam-hauled freight run on IAIS
Des Moines/Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 9-10, 2007:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More video clips of QJ
doubleheader:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Modeling
China's--and now Iowa's--mighty QJ 2-10-2's
(PDF 266k)
| Railroad Model Craftsman | February 2007
|
|
|
|
Coming
to America
(PDF 1.6
MB) | TRAINS Magazine | February 2007
|
|
|
|
Chinese
steam: a Heartland fantasy
(PDF 518k)
| TRAINS Magazine | December 2006
|
|
|
|
An
improbable 2-10-2 revival
(PDF 297k)
| Classic Trains | Winter 2006
|
|
|
|
Highlights of the
QJ's first excursion at RiverWay 2006
Quad Cities, Sept. 14-17, 2006:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- DVD
by Revelation Video: "Rock Island
Rooster"
(75 minutes --
highlights of the QJs coming to America
and their first public excursion at RiverWay)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Train-crazy
Q-C puts RiverWay on right track
(PDF 55k) |
Quad-City
Times | 19 Sept. 2006
|
|
|
|
Chinese
locomotives draw crowds on RiverWay run
(HTML 50k)
| AP-Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier | 16 Sept. 2006
|
|
|
|
Dinner
and a train ride
(PDF 56k) |
The Dispatch | 15 Sept. 2006
|
|
|
|
First
test run of Chinese steam on IAIS
http://www.iaisrailfans.org/gallery/QJBreakIn
(HTML) |
6 Sept. 2006
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Chinese steam locomotives begin testing in Iowa
(PDF 19k) |
28 August 2006
|
|
|
|
The
Friends of the 261 will operate excursions powered by Chinese steam
locomotives
(HTML 38k) | 31 July 2006
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Details finalized for fall excursions behind Chinese steam
(PDF 20k) |
18 July 2006
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Chinese steam locomotives may pull Midwest excursions in
September (PDF
189k) | 12 July 2006
|
|
|
|
Links to QJ technical
information and history:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Links to video clips of QJ's
operating in China:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Importing RDC's Two Chinese QJ-class 2-10-2's
Links to railfan photo galleries:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preservation:
Big Chinese steam is headed to the heartland
(PDF 170k)
| TRAINS Magazine | July 2006
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
News Wire: Chinese 2-10-2's arrive in the United States
(PDF
43k) | 13 June 2006
|
|
|
|
TRAINS
Breaking News: More Chinese steam coming to the U.S.
(PDF
57k) | 21 April 2006 |
|
| |
|
|
| |
RETURN
TO TOP |
|
| |
|
|
