The world's final big steam locomotive to be built in large numbers was the QJ 2-10-2, modeled after the Soviet LV class in 1958. By the time that production ceased thirty years later, almost 6,000 were built as the standard heavy freight-hauler for the Chinese Railways. On September 22, 1988, No. QJ 112 wheeled a freight alongside a field of cabbages as it arrived at the big freight yard at Changchun, Manchuria.
