I grew up in China in the 90s and never saw a steam locomotive in any towns, cities I been to. This photo still seems legit though, considering how underdeveloped the infrastructures were and kinda still are in the west part of China. I'm talking about hundreds even thousands miles across of no man's land with just train tracks or highways running through. This man probably got promoted out of life long hardship from the west.
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u/garth54 Feb 12 '25
I think the most impressive bit is that China still used such steam locomotives in 1996