Thank you for the film, loved the opening sequence of the industrial landscape and the spoil heap and people standing on it - in the style of Wim Wenders!
Thank you very much. We don`t travel with a group, because the driver will show every new group the same wellknown picturepoints. So we have enough time to discover the points by ourselfes. You even need more time for getting videos like this. Very helpfull: one of my friends has a chinese wife, so he speaks a little bit chinese.
There is also sheps head with garlic to offer... .For myself I prefair "gum bao zhi ding" (please look at google). Steam action is good, no arranged tours with hundred of fans, you can watch the trains allone.
Thanks again for sharing. A locomotive that small, pulling that many cars, without huge clouds of black smoke and soot- they are definitely "cheating" by using modern steam tech. :-)
Gustave Portelance Yup. Second most popular type after the 2-8-0 Consolidations. I strongly suspect that this one has been highly modified. Story has it that China hired a bunch of the top "modern steam" engineers to help them modify their locomotives, but claimed they couldn't make the technology work. This old girl (actually she may be pretty young, China was still building steam locomotives when Reagan was president) is doing work that would ordinarily take two locomotives that size, not making huge clouds of dark smoke and cinders, and (based on the size of the vapor plume) being thrifty with her water also. I know, shocking that China would blatantly pirate technology. ;-)
@@ostlandr Actually the book "The Red Devil" by Wardale has a chapter on his time at Datong. China steals LOTS of tech, but in this case even when they had it being handed to them they did not use it. Livio Dante Porta was the true hero of modern steam that made his brilliant designs and research available but unfortunately they did not follow up as they could have to create more modern steam. Basically they had competing factions and the national railways wanted to move away from steam. The very last engines were made up until 1999(!) for mining railways and were not really updated at all tech wise from the 1950s.
Thank you for the film, loved the opening sequence of the industrial landscape and the spoil heap and people standing on it - in the style of Wim Wenders!
Thank you very much. We don`t travel with a group, because the driver will show every new group the same wellknown picturepoints. So we have enough time to discover the points by ourselfes. You even need more time for getting videos like this. Very helpfull: one of my friends has a chinese wife, so he speaks a little bit chinese.
Wonder full Video, professional filmed, and with a look to the things next to the tracks. Thank you.
There is also sheps head with garlic to offer... .For myself I prefair "gum bao zhi ding" (please look at google). Steam action is good, no arranged tours with hundred of fans, you can watch the trains allone.
love the menu and the panda (as well as the steam of course!)
Mmmmm - tasty! You can still see some good action back home of course - see my playlist from the recent Plandampf in the Werratal
Moin, moin - Grüße und Dank aus Asbach!
Thanks again for sharing. A locomotive that small, pulling that many cars, without huge clouds of black smoke and soot- they are definitely "cheating" by using modern steam tech. :-)
Mark Stockman she's still a 2-8-2 (Mikado) aint she ?
Gustave Portelance Yup. Second most popular type after the 2-8-0 Consolidations. I strongly suspect that this one has been highly modified. Story has it that China hired a bunch of the top "modern steam" engineers to help them modify their locomotives, but claimed they couldn't make the technology work. This old girl (actually she may be pretty young, China was still building steam locomotives when Reagan was president) is doing work that would ordinarily take two locomotives that size, not making huge clouds of dark smoke and cinders, and (based on the size of the vapor plume) being thrifty with her water also. I know, shocking that China would blatantly pirate technology. ;-)
@@ostlandr Actually the book "The Red Devil" by Wardale has a chapter on his time at Datong. China steals LOTS of tech, but in this case even when they had it being handed to them they did not use it. Livio Dante Porta was the true hero of modern steam that made his brilliant designs and research available but unfortunately they did not follow up as they could have to create more modern steam. Basically they had competing factions and the national railways wanted to move away from steam. The very last engines were made up until 1999(!) for mining railways and were not really updated at all tech wise from the 1950s.
RIP Wolfgang Cloessner.
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