QJ 7040 overhaul and shipment

In 2007, R.J. Corman Railroad Company purchased QJ 7040 from China Railways. The purchase included an overhaul of the locomotive which was carried out at the underground workshops near Jinzhou in NE China. This was the last CR workshop capable of overhauling a QJ, and 7040 must have been one of the last of its class to receive an overhaul there.
The overhaul was supervised by Dennis Daugherty, then Chief Engineer of the California State Railroad Museum who in 2006 had been engaged by Henry Posner III to supervise the overhaul of his two QJs, 6988 and 7081, at the same workshops. The overhaul began in began around May 2007 and was completed in early August 2007 after which the locomotive was moved (with great difficulty because of tight restrictions on the movement of steam locomotives over CR metals) to the port of Dalian for shipment.
This combination of still photos and video include the loco's first test run in Jinzhou and its loading in Dalian.