That looks like a Chinese SY train. The last SY train was built in 1999 and the class was not retired until 2022.
So it could be true
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Han Junjia is his name, a real Chinese driver who went from steam to high-speed trains during his career. The “26 years apart” line and photos aren’t verified though. Couple of sources:
Even for a middle aged person in a country like China or Saudi Arabia or UAE the level of industrial development and technological improvement that will have occurred in their lifetime must be crazy.
Shadowlance23 on
When you get that promotion.
Drakuf on
That’s so lame, in Hungary they’ve been driving the same trains for 50 years.
GUYF666 on
I didn’t know they had 200 foot locomotives in 1999
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Come on… 26years was not that time
Lol no, that’s 35-40 years apart.
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That looks like a Chinese SY train. The last SY train was built in 1999 and the class was not retired until 2022.
So it could be true
Han Junjia is his name, a real Chinese driver who went from steam to high-speed trains during his career. The “26 years apart” line and photos aren’t verified though. Couple of sources:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-06-27/The-rise-of-China-s-railway-technology-as-seen-by-a-train-driver-HQIC4mGx6U/index.html
https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/153495#Driver-from-Hebei-proud-to-have-taken-tracks-through-history-2020-12-28
The last of these SY class trains was built in 1999 and china didnt stop oporating steam trains until 2005
Since this always gets met with scepticism every time it’s posted here’s a link to an interview with the driver: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-06-27/The-rise-of-China-s-railway-technology-as-seen-by-a-train-driver-HQIC4mGx6U/index.html
Even for a middle aged person in a country like China or Saudi Arabia or UAE the level of industrial development and technological improvement that will have occurred in their lifetime must be crazy.
When you get that promotion.
That’s so lame, in Hungary they’ve been driving the same trains for 50 years.
I didn’t know they had 200 foot locomotives in 1999