Industrial 2-8-2 No. SY 1772
Daqing, Liaoning, China 		Location: Tiefa Coal Mine System
Status: Stored
Posted: Nov 26, 2024 @ 11:11:41 by Russell Newman
Here are some technical details on the SY Class 2-8-2 locomotives like SY 1772. The SY Class 2-8-2 works at a boiler Pressure of 13.7 bar / 200 psi, Cylinders, Diameter/Stroke is at 530 mm x 710 mm, and the Driving Wheel Diameter is 1370 mm with Tractive Effort at 20,766 kg. The Overall Weight of the locomotive is 142 tons. SY in Chinese is short for Shang You (Aiming High / Reach Upward) which 1820 of them were built from 1960 to 1999 and were built at a number of locomotive works across China at Tangshan, Sifang, Tongling, Jinan and Changchun.
Posted: Jan 29, 2019 @ 06:01:27 by Russell Newman
SY 1772 was in steam again for the Tiefa Steam Locomotive Museum Diaobingshan steam locomotive festival this month which is now a big tourist attraction in China. It seems that the museum now operates the Tiefa Coal Mine System as a tourist railway which it has been used as a film location for many Chinese movies in recent times. Using SY 1772 in many of them and there are also reports of members of the Chinese public are having a go at driving and firing some of the steam locos there as well.
Posted: Dec 9, 2017 @ 12:12:30 by Russell Newman
The Tiefa Steam Locomotive Museum Diaobingshan or Tiefa is having there annual steam festival being held from 19th - 21st January 2018 using SY 1770 along with SY 1772 for some special steam runs on the Tiefa system.
Posted: Dec 11, 2016 @ 17:12:35 by Russell Newman
SY 1772 is one of the very last SY Class 2-8-2s to be built at Tangshan in the late 1990s. All tho it has a 1999 builders plate on it not all were built that year but they were built in the later part of that Decade. The SYs when built were not offden fitted with a builders plate till they had been sold. SY 1772 is reported to be still in working order and is part of a small fleet of SYs at Tiefa that are part of a Heritage fleet there.