International Railroad Discussion > Dōngběi freighthouse operations (China)

I was visting my mother-in-law a few weeks ago and came across the unloading of boxcars. I was intrigued that manual labor is still used in this manner, so I took some videos to preserve a little piece of today's Chinese railroading. I did not get a close look, but I suspect these are bags of soybeans, or perhaps rice.

The box cars were spotted on a team track in Huadian City, Jilin Province, in Northeast China (Manchuria). They spotted the cars east and west of the old freight house so that the conveyor belts could be routed from the cars right to the trucks on the adjacent access road. These scenes could easily have been witnessed in America 70 years ago.
 

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Not sure you would have seen a PLA like presence in the US as you have here

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AZSP Wrote:
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> Not sure you would have seen a PLA like presence
> in the US as you have here


Well, if you’re referring to the men wearing fatigues, they’re not PLA. I spoke to them.

Maybe 15% of civilians (mostly men, older and/or lower economic classes) wear this clothing because it’s surplus, and cheap & plentiful. Good as ‘work clothes’.

They may be veterans, or not.

They did look like a somewhat odd camouflage pattern, I thought it was just Chinese innovation.

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