China lurches ever forward into a modernized future, but it's keeping one leg of a train route firmly in its turbulent industrial past.
A short bus or motorcycle taxi ride from Chengdu, the bustling capital of Sichuan Province with more than 14 million residents, the Jiayang Railway trundles back and forth between Shixi and Bagou, site of a former coal mine. It's the last narrow-gauge steam passenger train service in operation anywhere on the planet, making it a tourist draw.