Fushun Big Hole 2002 Winter View with SY Steam Cranes Electrics 8×5 China Photo

Fushun Big Hole 2002 Winter View with SY Steam Cranes Electrics 8×5 China Photo CR 708

Majestic layered depths of Fushun’s famous open-pit mine in a frozen winter scene.

Photo with mount: approx. 8 x 5 inches

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Condition: In good condition. Please check our images.
Internal notes: QC passed

You stand at the edge of something colossal, staring into the endless steps of Fushun’s “Big Hole” on a crisp winter’s day, 25th November 2002. The wind whips lightly across the snow-dusted ledges, carrying with it the faint, rhythmic clatter of SY steam locomotives hard at work deep below. Steam plumes rise like white banners against the blue sky, and distant electric locomotives glide quietly across invisible rails, threading life into the mine’s endless terraces. You can almost feel the stillness and the sheer scale stretching endlessly before your eyes.

This isn’t just a photograph — it’s an immersion into the might and humanity of industrial history. The rugged black-and-white contrast of coal dust and fresh snow, the tiny flickers of human and mechanical activity lost among towering layers of rock, the almost sacred silence broken only by the occasional call of machinery — all are captured here in breathtaking detail. Your heart beats a little slower, a little heavier, as you sense the generations of hands and engines that shaped this titanic landscape.

This 8×5 inch mounted original photograph is a rare, emotionally powerful glimpse into one of the world’s largest open-pit coal mines. For collectors passionate about industrial heritage, steam and electric railway history, and historic landscapes, this is a piece of living memory. It’s not just what you see — it’s what you feel standing there under the clear winter sky.