tarboat's photos with the keyword: desert

Another load of coal empties heads towards Sandaoling across the desert landscape after an overnight snowfall.

JS class locomotive pushing the coal empties along the branch to the Erjing deep mine on the Sandaoling Coal Railway.

Crossing a frozen river in a desert landscape, a trainload of spoil pushes up onto the high tip at the Sandaoling opencast mine. Taken at almost exactly the same moment as this shot by channel packet.

Desolate landscape from the plane approaching Manzhouli on the flight from Beijing. Typical view for this end of the Mongolian Autonomous Region. The land on the horizon is most likely the Mongolian Republic.

JS 8366 hurries back to Nanzhan on the Sandaoling system, having deposited the full wagons at the CNR interchange at Liushuguan. Not all deserts are sandy and the prevailing landscape here is stony.

Although this may seem to be a historic image this branch of the Daba-Guyaozi Coal Railway was only completed in 2005. A QJ class locomotive hauls a long train of empties through the desert from Guyaozi to the new coal mine at Yangchangwan in Ningxia Province, China.