page_title: China Railways QJ
hierarchical_section_title: China Railways QJ
caption_attribution_description: Triple-headed steam excursion train in Illinois; the excursion is part of the Riverway 2006 celebrations commemorating the opening of the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Rock Island in 1856.
context_page_description: The QJ was a type of heavy freight steam locomotive used by China Railway. The majority were built by Datong locomotive factory. The prototypes and early production of the class were designated HP, being redesignated as FD class during the Cultural Revolution, before becoming the QJ class in 1971.
  The class became the primary mainline freight locomotive on the Chinese rail network by the 1980s, and were then displaced by diesel locomotives in 2005. After the end of steam on the national Chinese railway network many QJ locomotives were used on industrial lines, as well as on the Jitong railway. Several of the class have been preserved.
context_section_description: The QJ (Chinese: 前进; pinyin: Qián Jìn; literally: 'To go forward" or "to advance') was a type of heavy freight steam locomotive used by China Railway. The majority were built by Datong locomotive factory. The prototypes and early production of the class were designated HP (Chinese: 和平; pinyin: Hé Píng; literally: 'peace'), being redesignated as FD (Chinese: 反帝; pinyin: Fǎn Dì; literally: 'Anti-Imperialism') class during the Cultural Revolution, before becoming the QJ class in 1971.
  The class became the primary mainline freight locomotive on the Chinese rail network by the 1980s, and were then displaced by diesel locomotives in 2005. After the end of steam on the national Chinese railway network many QJ locomotives were used on industrial lines, as well as on the Jitong railway. Several of the class have been preserved.
caption: Preserved locomotives 6988 and 7081 operating with Milwaukee Road 261 on the Iowa Interstate (Sept. 2006)
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