Fushun Mining Railroad ED85 #1205 pulls a train of empty spoil cars out from the washery at Guchengzi. This locomotive is one of the oldest locomotives in revenue service in China, if not the world. The ED85 design looks American because it is! The design is a standard General Electric steeplecab electric locomotive built for open pit mine railroads in the 1920's. These locomotives were first supplied by GE to the South Manchuria Railroad's coal mine at Fushun in 1926. Later locomotives (including 1205) were built by Hitachi and Mitsubishi in the SMR shops between 1936-1940, following the GE design in every aspect, including English lettering cast into the truck sideframes!
