The Iowa Interstate Railroad Unofficial Photo Archive and Railfan’s Guide features photos of both ex China Rail and Jitong Railway QJ 2-10-2’s 6988 and 7081 being prepared and shipped from China to the United States of America as well as photos of them both running special trains over the years on the Iowa Interstate Railroad since April 2006. Along with some details of the locomotives as well and other locomotives and rolling stock and best photo locations on along the Iowa Interstate Railroad’s mainline.

The new owners of former China Rail and Jitong Railway QJ 7081.

This site looks at the Jitong Railway in Inner Mongolia North East China in the Steam era when it was the last great steam show on the planet from 1995 till 2005. This is the railway that the QJ Class 2-10-2 s are best remembered on. QJ 7081 was one of the 120 QJ 2-10-2 s that worked on this railway in China before it came to North America in 2006.