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	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:
	Chasing QJ's in Iowa (PDF 223k) \| Railfan & Railroad \| September 2007
	DVD by Revelation Video: "Hawkeye QJ" (55-minute footage of the QJs steam-hauled freight run)
	TRAINS News Wire: Chinese steam locomotives make special freight run on Iowa Interstate (PDF 37k) \| 11 June 2007
	Ron Olsen's video posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCiPmf-_aM0 June 9, 2007 -- QJs 7081 and 6988 pull a 4,380-ton IAIS freight train westbound through Casey, Iowa, at 40 mph, setting a steam haulage record for the Americas in the 21st Century.
	IAIS Railfans Image Gallery http://www.iaisrailfans.org/gallery/WestEndQJs
	TRAINS.com Forum http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/1139310/ShowPost.aspx
	More video clips of QJ doubleheader:
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNrqFwkK7k&mode=related&search
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMzGiAunlK8&mode=related&search
	Modeling China's--and now Iowa's--mighty QJ 2-10-2's (PDF 266k) \| Railroad Model Craftsman \| February 2007
	Coming to America (PDF 2.8 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:
	QJ dedication speech at Rock Island by Henry Posner III (PDF 27k) \| 14 Sept. 2006
	DVD by Revelation Video: "Rock Island Rooster" (75 minutes -- highlights of the QJs coming to America and their first public excursion at RiverWay)
	"Steaming into the past" http://qconline.com/multimedia/display.php?id=38 (multimedia presentation, HTML 1.5 MB) Produced by Todd Mizener Lead Staff Photographer for The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus "Out of China and into the Quad Cities in tandem" (PDF 13k) (transcript of poem narrated in multimedia presentation)
	IAIS Railfans Image Gallery http://www.iaisrailfans.org/gallery/RiverWay2006
	Trip Report: Chinese Steam in the Heartland by Nathan Holmes http://www.drgw.net/trips/report.php?tr=CSIH.1
	Railfan Photo Gallery http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=Steam%202-10-2
	Triple headed steam in action! http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14858

	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:
	http://www.railography.co.uk/info/cn_steam/profiles/qj.htm
	http://home.c2i.net/schaefer/qjdetails/qjhistory.html
	Links to video clips of QJ's operating in China:
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c74GZh9bv2g
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb_WLab7MMI&mode=related&search
	Importing RDC's Two Chinese QJ-class 2-10-2's Links to railfan photo galleries:
	http://www.iaisrailfans.org/gallery/ChineseQJs?page=1 6 July 2006
	http://www.railroadforums.com/photos /showphoto.php?photo=39718&cat=500&ppuser=1500 22 June 2006
	http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=148520 21 June 2006
	http://www.pbase.com/copcarss/chinese_steam 14 June 2006

	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

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