China Railways JS Class 2-8-2 under assembly in the erecting shop at Datong Works, Inner Mongolia, in the mid 1980s.

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China Railways JS Class 2-8-2 under assembly in the erecting shop at Datong Works, Inner Mongolia, in the mid 1980s. During this time Datong was producing one locomotive a day causing my guide to inform me that “China’s workers move like Charlie Chaplin did in your old movies”

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Size: 4305px × 2877px
Location: China,
Photo credit: © Colin Garratt / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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