Dreamlike Photos Show The Journey Of China's Last Steam Trains

Dreamlike Photos Show The Journey Of China's Last Steam Trains

In China's Sichuan province, some of the last passenger steam train services in the world still carry out their runs. These holdovers from past decades are obsolete almost everywhere else, but in China's industrial interior, the old locomotives continue to run coal and people between the isolated towns along the railways.

The trains are a tourist attraction as well as transport, with rail enthusiasts traveling from around the world to see the steam trains in action while they can. In a series of photographs taken along the Jiayang Railway and in the small towns of Bagou and Shixi, Getty photographer Kevin Frayer captured incredible shots that look like they belong to another era.

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