Freight train line celebrates 25 years of coal transport

Locoman Sun Dongsheng is extremely cautious every time he drives a heavy-load train, which carries 20,000 metric tons of coal and extends for 2.61 kilometers in length, on a special cargo railway line.

Sun, from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group (CREC4), drives the train on the 594-km Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway, which starts from Shenchi South Station in Shanxi province in the west and ends at Huanghua Port Station in Hebei province in the east.

With 33 stations along the railway traversing two provinces, the line — put into operation on May 18, 2000 — is a national first-class, double track, electrified heavy-duty railway with a transport capacity of 350 million tons per year.