ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 9月17日 03時38分

Photos by Michael Yamashita @Michael Yamashita China simultaneously operates the world’s first automated high-speed rail system and the world’s last revenue steam railroad. In 2012, I photographed both for National Geographic's "China Rails" story. The world's fastest train at the time was the China Railway 380 AL bullet train, capable of speeds up to 290 mph (about 466 kph), with its sleek, sword-like shape. At the same time, in the far northern province of Liaoning, where coal still powers the local economy, steam engines built in the 1980s were laboring to pull coal trains out of mines dug into the arid landscape. Today China operates 66 percent of the world’s high-speed network (with 22,000 route miles/35,000 km) and is still expanding. And though steam-powered engines are no longer used for passenger travel, Train magazine reports that there is one remaining bastion of revenue steam operations in China (and the world): in the Gobi Desert, where engines belching black smoke haul coal from the pit mines of Sandaoling in Xinjiang Province. But steam engine enthusiasts better get there fast, as rumor has it that the mines will be shut down by the end of this year, and the locomotives retired to museums, vestiges of a China that is disappearing at a high-speed pace. #chinarailway #highspeedtrains #steamtrain #trains

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