Fairy tale stuff, remarkable coverage, and the brave heart, cute little locomotive, still going great guns. Old George Stephenson would sure be proud. :)
I'm looking forward to seeing one of these on the Rheilfordd Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales. (They are re-gauging one to run on two-foot gauge.)
The can't bacsuse, then people would see porrer side of China (not Shanghai, not Pekin, not Chongquing) and communist propaganda says, that there aren't poor people in communist country and everybody is reach there. Greetings from Poland
As far as I know there is only one place in China where this kind of narrow track train is still partially working: the railway between Yunnan province and Vietnam which was built by French when Vietnam was their colony. I don't know exactly how well it is running now but I think it's largely as a local cargo transportation.
Usually the proper way would have an ashpan on the bottom of the firebox and after a day of work or so it would be cleaned out at the engine servicing facility (roundhouse, shed, shop etc). Guess it doesn't have an ashpan, or it is too small for the amount of cinders that that lower grade coal makes.
I was in California one time and we stopped at this restaurant. On the menu they had El Camino Chicken and Santa Fe Chicken. I figured Santa Fe Chicken had been run over by a train whereas El Camino Chicken had been run over by a car...
2:36 Le abre el paso de vapor del inyector de agua para que lo filmen, luego los purgadores de cilindro para completar el efecto . Muy lindo.Soy ex foguista de locomotoras baldwin a vapor. Beautiful!!
I can see it, back up a ways, then come forward slowly while you blow-down the sediment from the boiler in a designated area before stopping for passengers.
Excellent photography and video. Real show of village life. Beautiful scenery of hills and farms. Nice small smart steam engine. But why they make drive wheels so small?To increase efficiency of engine size of drive wheels shall be suitably large. Anyway thanks.
It's nice to see steam engines still in use, not just taken out once a year to show tourists. The USA keeps a strategic oil reserve in case of emergencies. I think the USA and other countries should build modern steam powered engines for emergencies. If there is ever a crisis, war, or whatever causing massive oil shortages, having steam engines to ship things around the country would help save the economy and prevent starvation in areas that don't grow their own food. Plus they could ship soldiers and equipment around.
that's a really bad idea. the americans use primarily diesel-electric locomotives, which among other things, are extraordinarily fuel-efficient. fuel is no problem for diesel-electric locomotives. however, it's a huge problem for steam engines. think about it; a diesel-electric can carry a 5-mile-long chain of cargo from one city to another using just a tank of gas, however, steam engines would typically have trouble carrying a 500 metre long chain of cargo on a full tender. also, coal is quite environmentally unfriendly. the gases given off by coal are extremely dirty. you could theoretically develop a supercritical boiler model, but such a project would be expensive and likely extremely dangerous. so, the answer is no. the only reason steam is still in use AT ALL is because it's dirt cheap.
@Ancient Link no you wouldn't. I've been to china 8 or 9 times by now and something like pointing out a mistake is shunned upon but not something you would be sent to jail for. they don't like you being in other people's business. I'm sure the engineers would appreciate the information though. china is not as brainwashed as it used to be and minor things like pointing out mistakes only gets you some bad looks.
@@bellowphone I ain't no expert, but I believe that the chuffing should be every quarter of a revolution, with every release of pressure from the pistons.
This is wonderful! I wish I had a lot of money and time (and of course permission) to rebuild all the different little railroads like this all over China! This is a great way to get around! I would sure clean up the coal burners so the towns and areas would be cleaner. These little trains create a home like feel that I think is mostly lost in the US! I hope to get to see one of these before they are lost forever! You folks really do trains very good there! Anyway, thanks for sharing! Very nice!
1:45 Wow is that normal? Sorry but I'm new to this locomotive stuff. I find these machines fascinating for some reason, and someday I'd like to see one in real life.
the last narrow guage rail road tourist attaction in Pa shut down not long ago in Orbisona...depressing as hell...its like a long forgotten ghost area now...tracks are over grown and all.
KA-BOOOOM!!! - 1:11 I guess rationale behind those little drivers is to deliver *more torque?* - 3:37 Guess that's why they call it *"playing chicken???* LOL - 5:08
The train at 3:37 with the little wheels would actually have lower torque. But with many wheels, there would be more traction. Suspect that they would rather have 4 pairs of large wheels, but due to space limitations, they went for small wheels because they needed the contact patch area for enough traction to handle the design load and grade.
@@johncochran8497 Sounds good to me... I see what you mean about smaller drivers vis-a-vis torque. Still, I've always noticed passenger steam locomotives have bigger drivers, while freight locomotives have smaller drivers - why is that?
@@JungleYT Think about the loads they need to carry and the speeds they need to travel at. Passenger trains are fairly small, but they want to be fast. A larger wheel for a given "strokes per minute" from the pistons will be faster than a smaller wheel. So less wear and tear on the bearings and greater speed. But a freight train handles a large heavy load, requiring a lot of traction. Hence, more wheels to provide the desired contact patch size for the desired traction. One additional thing about steam locomotive engines. They have "constant torque". What that means is that the available horsepower goes up without limit as long as enough steam is available to maintain pressure. So if a steam locomotive is able to get the load moving, it can in theory get the load moving at any desired upper speed limit. In contrast, an electric motor used in electric, or diesel electric engines have "constant horsepower". Basically, their torque is at it's greatest when just starting out and as they go faster, the available torque decreases. So they can get quite heavy loads moving from a stand still, but they have a limited upper speed due to the decreasing available torque.
I'm wondering how anyone on the train survived that trip though the tunnel? Fireman for ten, assistant engineer for five, engineer for ten, dead at fifty!
smaller more numerous wheels means more pulling power, means they can haul heavier loads easier, but they're slower overall. Bigger fewer drive wheels are made for going fast but pulling mostly short passenger trains, sort of like the difference between a race horse and a cart mule these little locos are narrow gauge coal and rock haulers, cart mules of the train world.
That steam locomotive is leaking fire holy shit
nah it probably just dropped ashes that it doesn't need lol
Looks like some lit coal made it into the ashpan.
@@heatedchocolate2 You do have a mix down there on the grates. Not neatly segregated. Check inside ash-tray of running woodstove sometime- same thing.
Shooing chickens off of the tracks! Hilarious! This reminds me of seeing steam operating in India back in '80. That was a privilege.
I love the scenes in this film - so alive !
Fairy tale stuff, remarkable coverage, and the brave heart, cute little locomotive, still going great guns. Old George Stephenson would sure be proud. :)
Steam loco Kp4, as Sonia Suczka noticed 4 yrs ago - Wiki has an article on it (in German, Polish and Russian)
And Richard Trevithick…
I like how the train driver back away the train just to show off the steam to the tourists.
The driver loves job. It is really obvious.
He's imagining his loco is a dragon
3:25 even the station house looks like a locomotive, neat.
Nice coverage of steam locomotives!
Very nice collection, I remembered my old days
That engine never gives up she keeps going day in day out what a workhorse it is super video
That steam locomotive is definitely worth restoring.
it looks completely shot. Would be like building a new locomotive at this point
1:45 88 miles per hour!
Judging by the way it's wobbling, it would probably derail if it went half that speed.
@@OfficialUSKRprogram it looks like it tries to lmao
I'm looking forward to seeing one of these on the Rheilfordd Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales. (They are re-gauging one to run on two-foot gauge.)
Of the most beautiful train scenes I've ever seen from China!!! Thanks for sharing it :-) Best regards from Greece!
Great video. I just hope the Chinese government realise the tourist potential of this magnificent railway.
The can't bacsuse, then people would see porrer side of China (not Shanghai, not Pekin, not Chongquing) and communist propaganda says, that there aren't poor people in communist country and everybody is reach there.
Greetings from Poland
The small wheels give those little locomotives lots of pulling power.
more traction indeed. the way they were running that thing though, it aint gonna last long..
@@KingSlimjeezy I mean the fact that it's lasted this long, a testimony to 19th century engineering.
@@droganwinterfell7545 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII AMMMMMMM IRRRRROON MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN
No. Just less adherence. What is matter is the position of the axle of the coupling rod - the bigger the wheel, the bigger the traction force.
@@stephanesonneville no the smaller wheel gives more torque and larger wheels give more speed.
Rock ballast also protects the wooden ties , and secures the rail / tie assembly to the rail bed...
Great vid, thx for sharing!
Superb Video! I like it!
Thank you, Shibanxi!!
As far as I know there is only one place in China where this kind of narrow track train is still partially working: the railway between Yunnan province and Vietnam which was built by French when Vietnam was their colony. I don't know exactly how well it is running now but I think it's largely as a local cargo transportation.
Usually the proper way would have an ashpan on the bottom of the firebox and after a day of work or so it would be cleaned out at the engine servicing facility (roundhouse, shed, shop etc). Guess it doesn't have an ashpan, or it is too small for the amount of cinders that that lower grade coal makes.
Great show!
Oh man that looks so cool
superb footage.
Great video Thanks
1:13 beautiful shot!
Why I'm imaging a stationmaster announcing that the train will be late because there is a chicken on the rails?
She was better off before she started. They were safely away til they saw her...
Or the station cafeteria now has steamed chicken on the menu.
I was in California one time and we stopped at this restaurant. On the menu they had El Camino Chicken and Santa Fe Chicken. I figured Santa Fe Chicken had been run over by a train whereas El Camino Chicken had been run over by a car...
2:36 Le abre el paso de vapor del inyector de agua para que lo filmen, luego los purgadores de cilindro para completar el efecto . Muy lindo.Soy ex foguista de locomotoras baldwin a vapor. Beautiful!!
An other train, an other world. Thank you,
I found this video to be extremely interesting
Great movie !!! Greetings from Polish.
Brilliant - oh to be on the footplate!!
Very nice location and train
Very interesting video, like !
Might be a rusty train and old but it still works fine :)
I can see it, back up a ways, then come forward slowly while you blow-down the sediment from the boiler in a designated area before stopping for passengers.
Great vid
Sounds and looks like it needs rebuilt
@Andy Wilderness Lol
It looks so goofy I love it 😆😆
excellent et surrealiste!!
This is fantastic
great film with lovely locations..........greetings from india.
fantastic !
01:47 omg!! Train is on fire!!!
Oh wait, it's steam train.
But that one looks dangerous!
Looks like a poorly welded firebox is why its doing that, That's very dangerous in regions with dry grass and forests.
It looks like they're dumping ashes before passing the fields to prevent potential safety hazards.
It’s probably not as dangerous as it looks. You’d figure in a country with a billion people, _some_ of them ought to know what they’re doing.
Looks like it doesn't have that good of maintanience. Then again, maybe it just looks that way cause it looks very dirty.
Thank god ROCK cant set on fjre
Nice video. Nostalgy from 1964.
Очень эпично!!! Моё восхищение!!
it was amazing!
thats really really neat
super video!!!!!
Excellent photography and video. Real show of village life. Beautiful scenery of hills and farms. Nice small smart steam engine. But why they make drive wheels so small?To increase efficiency of engine size of drive wheels shall be suitably large. Anyway thanks.
more torque for pulling. slower speed, but more power
How beautiful ❤.
Aw, what a cute little locomotive! I would let it hit my stalled vehicle on a rail road any day.
Great i love it
4:25 was a HUGE waste of steam and fuel, but it looked cool.
Ё - моё, живой паровоз. Огнедышащий дракон.
китайцы любят драконов, а у этого чувака в подчинении свой собственный=)
It's nice to see steam engines still in use, not just taken out once a year to show tourists. The USA keeps a strategic oil reserve in case of emergencies. I think the USA and other countries should build modern steam powered engines for emergencies. If there is ever a crisis, war, or whatever causing massive oil shortages, having steam engines to ship things around the country would help save the economy and prevent starvation in areas that don't grow their own food. Plus they could ship soldiers and equipment around.
that's a really bad idea. the americans use primarily diesel-electric locomotives, which among other things, are extraordinarily fuel-efficient. fuel is no problem for diesel-electric locomotives. however, it's a huge problem for steam engines. think about it; a diesel-electric can carry a 5-mile-long chain of cargo from one city to another using just a tank of gas, however, steam engines would typically have trouble carrying a 500 metre long chain of cargo on a full tender. also, coal is quite environmentally unfriendly. the gases given off by coal are extremely dirty. you could theoretically develop a supercritical boiler model, but such a project would be expensive and likely extremely dangerous. so, the answer is no. the only reason steam is still in use AT ALL is because it's dirt cheap.
@3.31 it looks like the building was styled after a steam Loco . :-)
The Bluebell railway needs to work on its rolling stock!
the timing of the valve gear is wrong, made so by ages of wear and tear on that poor engine!
@Martyn Watson Unlikely.
@Ancient Link no you wouldn't. I've been to china 8 or 9 times by now and something like pointing out a mistake is shunned upon but not something you would be sent to jail for. they don't like you being in other people's business. I'm sure the engineers would appreciate the information though. china is not as brainwashed as it used to be and minor things like pointing out mistakes only gets you some bad looks.
honestly, how old that looks, im surprised it still has round wheels.
Can someone explain to me how you know the timing is wrong; what to look/listen for; how to fix it?
@@bellowphone I ain't no expert, but I believe that the chuffing should be every quarter of a revolution, with every release of pressure from the pistons.
This is wonderful! I wish I had a lot of money and time (and of course permission) to rebuild all the different little railroads like this all over China! This is a great way to get around! I would sure clean up the coal burners so the towns and areas would be cleaner. These little trains create a home like feel that I think is mostly lost in the US! I hope to get to see one of these before they are lost forever! You folks really do trains very good there! Anyway, thanks for sharing! Very nice!
Very beautiful
4:21 wou!! . Extraccion a fondo de la caldera , abran completado su nibel de agua antes de eso , para dar ese hermoso show!!.
safety? We don't need any stinkin' safety. Btw Gorgeous landscapes!!!
燃えカスまき散らしながら走る蒸気なんて初めて見た。
amazingly interesting
20 stars!!
5:25 chickens are stupid no matter where they live!
Remind me, do cars or trains go on roads?
I think it’s in JiaYang LeShan ,Sichuan province ,China。乐山嘉阳小火车
Charming in that it looks like 1920.
蔬菜花田非常美丽。村里的活动非常混乱。
Spirited Away.
Superb
1:45 Wow is that normal? Sorry but I'm new to this locomotive stuff. I find these machines fascinating for some reason, and someday I'd like to see one in real life.
1:48 WOW! No ash pan, I guess, talk about a fire hazard!
2012:Nah
2013:I Said Nah
2013:No
2014:Nope
2015:NEVER
2016:stfu
2017:Hıhıh?
2018:i said no
2019:YES YES YES!
can't wait till someone invents originality
Is that a JoJo reference?
Well Yes,But Actually No
@@afork2600 well I guess you're incapable, you will have to let someone else think for you lol
@@thestonedraider8684 *making sense has left the chat*
Oh how much I wish there was a working narrow gauge railway in America.
There are. But they're mostly getting money as tourist attractions, rather than freight.
the last narrow guage rail road tourist attaction in Pa shut down not long ago in Orbisona...depressing as hell...its like a long forgotten ghost area now...tracks are over grown and all.
*Orbisonia
Interesting video!
What is wrong with the coal train steam locomotive that its rhythm is so uneven?
Thank you.
Must have been burning slag for the loco to have to drop the ash pan (possibly) mid trip. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Film super !!! SUB !!! Pozdrowienia z Polski ;)
Wow!
KA-BOOOOM!!! - 1:11 I guess rationale behind those little drivers is to deliver *more torque?* - 3:37 Guess that's why they call it *"playing chicken???* LOL - 5:08
The train at 3:37 with the little wheels would actually have lower torque. But with many wheels, there would be more traction. Suspect that they would rather have 4 pairs of large wheels, but due to space limitations, they went for small wheels because they needed the contact patch area for enough traction to handle the design load and grade.
@@johncochran8497 Sounds good to me... I see what you mean about smaller drivers vis-a-vis torque. Still, I've always noticed passenger steam locomotives have bigger drivers, while freight locomotives have smaller drivers - why is that?
@@JungleYT Think about the loads they need to carry and the speeds they need to travel at. Passenger trains are fairly small, but they want to be fast. A larger wheel for a given "strokes per minute" from the pistons will be faster than a smaller wheel. So less wear and tear on the bearings and greater speed. But a freight train handles a large heavy load, requiring a lot of traction. Hence, more wheels to provide the desired contact patch size for the desired traction.
One additional thing about steam locomotive engines. They have "constant torque". What that means is that the available horsepower goes up without limit as long as enough steam is available to maintain pressure. So if a steam locomotive is able to get the load moving, it can in theory get the load moving at any desired upper speed limit. In contrast, an electric motor used in electric, or diesel electric engines have "constant horsepower". Basically, their torque is at it's greatest when just starting out and as they go faster, the available torque decreases. So they can get quite heavy loads moving from a stand still, but they have a limited upper speed due to the decreasing available torque.
Here are the scenery of the remote mountain areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, the original ecological scenery of China.
super!
Do the steam locomotives 🚂 pull freight trains 🚞?
Muito bonito !!!
São Bernardo do Campo - SP - Brasil
guter Film!!!
Molto pittoresco!
Muito interessante esse vídeo,gostei muito!!!
Llove see they train
beautiful video joaquim antunes são paulo brasil
both are correct
1:39 [train whistle] 1:44 Hot cinders fell out
super
I'm wondering how anyone on the train survived that trip though the tunnel? Fireman for ten, assistant engineer for five, engineer for ten, dead at fifty!
What tiny wheels that loco has.
smaller more numerous wheels means more pulling power, means they can haul heavier loads easier, but they're slower overall. Bigger fewer drive wheels are made for going fast but pulling mostly short passenger trains, sort of like the difference between a race horse and a cart mule these little locos are narrow gauge coal and rock haulers, cart mules of the train world.
more traction
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They are doing something very well! Not one car was messed up with that anal minded graffiti! Wish we could do that in the States.