Chinese Rail Transport Appreciation & News
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No plans have been announced but considering that CRRC recently started manufacturing freight variants of the CR400AF and CR400BF along with the development of the CF600 maglev train, it wouldn't come as a surprise if the idea was at least entertained.
CR400BF-C on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou intercity railway with a special livery celebrating the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Autonomous EMUs running under the Great Wall at 350 kph and along the old Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway. This is the best tribute the Zhan Tianyou, father of modern Chinese railway and building of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, China's first domestically funded railway.
This...is my childhood. DF-4 "watermelon" (NO, not your DF-4 ICBM, but DF-4 diesel locomotive). Was very common during my childhood, and I remember traveling on a green-skinned and red-skinned trains hauled by them. The green colored DF-4 entered service in 1969, I think, but they didn't replace the QJ series steam locomotives until the early 1990s. Some of these locomotives participated in the construction of the Bandung-Jakarta HSR construction by hauling materials.
This was also my childhood, but this improved DF-4 "giant orange" locomotive entered service in the mid. 1980s and was responsible for hauling faster trains, such as those early double-deckers traveling between Shenzhen and Guangzhou. You could occasionally find them in service today, but you pretty much have to train spot for hours to catch one.
