Most of the traffic on the Jinxi Railway is limestone which is carried from the quarry at Yangjiazhangzi to the Bohai cement factory in Huludao.

General freight, which continues from Huludao onwards to CNR seems to be sparse. The loco shed is located at Huludao, close to the Bohai cement factory.

The line is operated by a mixture of SY 2-8-2 and JS 2-8-2. Back then my Photoshop skills were OK, but in the intervening three years I’ve learned a lot.

So I’ve been back to the original Raw files.  Fortunately, I’ve always shot Raw.  The best analogy for a Raw file is that it’s a digital negative.  The file is what the camera recorded, with no in-camera tweaking.

So a great place to start for what I call ‘digital mining’. 

At the time my skills weren’t up to it, but now they are. 

From a day I considered a washout at the time has come eight perfectly good pictures. 

Good enough that I’m happy to include them in my website.

See my album of Jinxi.