Railway career captures driver's imagination for the long haul

From steam locomotives to bullet trains, Shandong man ran them all

For train driver Xue Jun, locomotives are not machines, but friends with whom he must communicate.

The 47-year-old, who drives a bullet train for the railway bureau of Jinan, the capital city of East China's Shandong province, said the language for communicating with locomotives is a set of standard operations.