My dad's friend's grandpa used to work here, he still kept one of the carts in his garage, and his reed hat, he told me that one of the carts once fell down when they were dumping rocks, it was crushed into pieces, and the diesel were mostly sold for scraped or destroyed, the lucky ones were saved and taken to the museum or been kept in garages. My dad's friend's grandpa still has a little bit of rail in the front of the garage, and I sometimes go take a look at it.
+Big Allan My respect to all these women doing a man's job. This was really hard physical work and due to the lack of any safety precautions I assume a lot of people were killed or seriously hurt.....
TheAddRevenue Channel Not really, during WW2, the Japanese forced all men and women to work, if they don't, they kill them or torture them until they die. And somewhere in 2000, and since they live high up the mountains, they need work to live and eat. So when their farms were sold due to corruption in family, they were sold back to the land owner or was sold to someone else. And the women, men, and childrens needed work to survive, so thats also why women and men still work together in mines. Not because of equality, its just to survive.
Amazing to see old operations like this. Some reason, this reminds me of Minecraft mine carts. TH-cam is a cool way to preserve the past. So much I would not have been able to see, without the internet.
What a wonderful film. Congratulations to those who made it. It reminded me of the days when I worked underground on the haulage system of a long-closed coal mine.
Full respect for these guys doing an excellent job under difficult circumstances! Watching them we can learn a lot about team work, motivation and the spirit to keep up. No reason to laugh at them and their primitive equipment- one day they will overtake us.
In 1894, my grand father, Evan Lewis, was taken out of 3rd grade and put to work in an anthracite coal mine in Schuylkill County, PA. He worked along side his father, picking slate from the coal as it was being lifted up out of the mine. Watching the men and women work in this video reminded me of my grand father. Roy
Thanks for uploading this, fascinating stuff. Particularly liked the single-bladed points and the very basic method of unloading/re-railing the spoil wagons.
wi11y1960 simple, but a tad dangerous, what would happen if it came loose and slid into a position where the main track is blocked and they didn’t see it? Possible derailment of coal cars.
@@HMSHOOD1920 It looked like a derailment would be no problem judging on how they can push the wagons by hand and also tip them on their sides and back, the locomotive might be heavier though.
Efficiency and ingenuity are incredible, yet coallllll dustttttttt, heavy machinery and fingerrrs. Im curious if working conditions improved? No slight intended, I have great respect for their work.
Too bad this may be the only film of the mining and the railway. Too many of us forget not everything is computers and cellphones & this wasn't all that long ago either. galvie45, thank you for posting this.
Too true. Altho my cellphone is....just a phone. I don't access the Web on it, I don't play World of Warcraft on it, I just use it to make phone calls..... in emergencies.
Fascinating piece of film. I remember seeing a coal barge being loaded on the banks of the Yangtze river by people carrying baskets on their backs. Filthy conditions and the entire village was covered in black dust.
Perhaps a family operation because women were pushing coal cars along with Grandpa. Love the "Briggs and Stratton" lawnmower engine railway! Excellent doc. Looks like it rains over there 365 days per year.
I know what it is like to work in pain and that lady in the second or third to last view was working in pain, I wonder how many times those little engines have been rebuilt or repaired. Its amazing what you can get by with when you have no choice!
the gondolas ( open goods wagons ) look like boxes on wheels . tiny trains .:) interesting to watch the crew shove the cars (wagons ) through the switches. (points ) thanks for sharing this vanished vista.
Instead of being on welfare, they were working hard. If we in the US are not careful, all the coal mines here will be shutdown too. It already is happening in WV, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Virginia.
+gravelydon becuse there are jobs available. you just start go digging up some land i nsearch for coal you will ahve about 50 different people trying to throw you in jail.
This may seem non realistic to some, this hard of work, I assure you it is not. When I was a kid in Houston, Texas I remember unloading lumber from boxcars on a siding. They were unloaded by hand, separated and stacked by hand and had to be covered with tarps at the end of the day. Try to imagine how many pieces of lumber were in a 60' long box car. If there were 6-8 kids we could do it in a day for $4. each and nobody was over 14 y.o./ Or how many shovels of sand does it take to make 15-16 tons of sand? but there were kids lined up on top of a long pile of sand where it was dredged out of The San Jacinto River as long as the dump truck shoveling sand until the truck was full then wait on another truck. $5. a day. Were we crazy? Hell no we could go buy a new pair of shoes for $6.95 at Thom McCanns ( all the same price) We could buy a pair of button fly Levis for $1.99 or even a pair of Tony Llama cowboy boots from $9-$11. We were like the "elite" at school because we had money for a Delaware Punch and a Baby Ruth candy bar. (about .17) We could go to a double or triple treat at the movie theater popcorn soda and milk dubs and still have change left for $2.00. Seems like people were so satisfied, happy and peaceful then.
Don Haas, YOU are so right, not only were you the ELITE, but you had the satisfaction that only working hard for some thing brings an individual.I remember all those things you mention, as far as what you were able to do with that money, times were better back then,
It seems the dump is overburden. To excavate minieral, we have to remove top soil usually known as overburden. Its a waste. in other words its Just Dirt..
Too bad it wasn’t narrated and offered info about the track system? Anyone know what gauge the tracks were? How many people worked there at its peak? I bet everyone gets the day off when there is a sunny day!
Wow...looks closer to 1893 than 1993. How could the extraction cost compare to the great open cut mines of Australia etc.? No wonder they closed. Still, as filthy and dangerous as it looks, still better fro the environment than the vast open cut mines. Wouldn't want to work there though. Great film. Thanks.
The Taiwanese should have Donald Trump as their president. He says he is going to bring it all back! He would fit right in! These people must be polluting that watershed, dumping the spoil of those carts in the stream at 4:44. Their fresh caught fish must taste delicious with all that arsenic & coal tales in them! The Taiwanese are delighted to know this is all gone now!
Safety steel capped boots - check! Safety conical straw hat - check! Hi-viz shawl (colour optional) - check! Signal & points man -check! Length of timber to tip wagons over edge with spoil - check! Loop of steel hawser to make sure wagon doesn't fall down slope - check! The thing is, that there weren't that many workers - even though they all worked at a steady pace, without obvious instruction, just getting on with the job. Collectively they weren't really terribly productive - maybe each wagon held 2 cubic yards of what looked like fairly low grade coal, and there was only one line to the main rail station with its big coal wagon - so I guess that they were filling up 1 large wagon every 4 - 6 hours, maybe? A small coal fired power station needs probably 20 of those wagons each day, enough to heat & light maybe 200,000 homes (I did a bit of Googling for those figures, so if they are wrong, my apologies), so I'm not entirely surprised the mines were considered uneconomic & closed.
Fascinating! Looks like hard work just rounding up the coal cars but I'm quite sure there's plenty more misery deep inside the coal mines themselves. With these little mom & pop coal operations, one can readily see the difficulty the Chinese government faces weening their countrymen off of coal.
The coal mine wasn't that bad for it's time. They did have Diesel Locks, rails and countless machines from the transporter to train and sort Station. Even the deposit area was Close and environmental didn't seemed to be that hard. I just want to add that the most mines in the World are today less developed especially foreign Gold are Charcoal mines. When they are not runed from gvt's or big companys. Another thing to add the mens did work in the mine . The Womens outside both of them did a hard job.
What a terrible waste, what a terrible way of living, what a terrible of scorching this beautiful country!🙏 Blessings to all whom give their heart, health and moreover; their lives!!!
My dad's friend's grandpa used to work here, he still kept one of the carts in his garage, and his reed hat, he told me that one of the carts once fell down when they were dumping rocks, it was crushed into pieces, and the diesel were mostly sold for scraped or destroyed, the lucky ones were saved and taken to the museum or been kept in garages. My dad's friend's grandpa still has a little bit of rail in the front of the garage, and I sometimes go take a look at it.
+Big Allan My respect to all these women doing a man's job. This was really hard physical work and due to the lack of any safety precautions I assume a lot of people were killed or seriously hurt.....
Hannu Bolbach they wanted this equality shit
TheAddRevenue Channel Not really, during WW2, the Japanese forced all men and women to work, if they don't, they kill them or torture them until they die. And somewhere in 2000, and since they live high up the mountains, they need work to live and eat. So when their farms were sold due to corruption in family, they were sold back to the land owner or was sold to someone else. And the women, men, and childrens needed work to survive, so thats also why women and men still work together in mines. Not because of equality, its just to survive.
Would he mind measuring the cart for me? I would love to build some models in tribute.
Amazing to see old operations like this. Some reason, this reminds me of Minecraft mine carts. TH-cam is a cool way to preserve the past. So much I would not have been able to see, without the internet.
What a wonderful film. Congratulations to those who made it. It reminded me of the days when I worked underground on the haulage system of a long-closed coal mine.
Thanks for posting this. This was a most enjoyable vid the likes of which i don't see too often on youTube.
Thanks again.
Full respect for these guys doing an excellent job under difficult circumstances! Watching them we can learn a lot about team work, motivation and the spirit to keep up.
No reason to laugh at them and their primitive equipment- one day they will overtake us.
People working for a living, an honest days work for a sad pittance. This documentary reminds us of our good fortune.
Chet Smith
Less than 100 years ago, we weren't too far away from what they were doing in this documentary. Mine safety wasn't an issue to the mine owners.
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In 1894, my grand father, Evan Lewis, was taken out of 3rd grade and put to work in an anthracite coal mine in Schuylkill County, PA. He worked along side his father, picking slate from the coal as it was being lifted up out of the mine.
Watching the men and women work in this video reminded me of my grand father.
Roy
Thanks for uploading this, fascinating stuff. Particularly liked the single-bladed points and the very basic method of unloading/re-railing the spoil wagons.
I like that single point switch.
Yes, it's elegant. Operated directly by foot, no need for operational mechanisms beyond the rail itself. Nothing beyond what is necessary.
Called a kick point. Used in British lead mines in Northern England in the 1700s.
wi11y1960 simple, but a tad dangerous, what would happen if it came loose and slid into a position where the main track is blocked and they didn’t see it? Possible derailment of coal cars.
@@HMSHOOD1920 It looked like a derailment would be no problem judging on how they can push the wagons by hand and also tip them on their sides and back, the locomotive might be heavier though.
Efficiency and ingenuity are incredible, yet coallllll dustttttttt, heavy machinery and fingerrrs. Im curious if working conditions improved? No slight intended, I have great respect for their work.
Too bad this may be the only film of the mining and the railway. Too many of us forget not everything is computers and cellphones & this wasn't all that long ago either. galvie45, thank you for posting this.
+ShastaPacificRoad if not for computers and cell phones, you wouldn't be watching this right now
Too true. Altho my cellphone is....just a phone. I don't access the Web on it, I don't play World of Warcraft on it, I just use it to make phone calls..... in emergencies.
shut up boomer
Blood, sweat and tears - that is how we feel the years. Mining was never meant to be easy, that is why there is so much pride in it.
These views were differently new information with a different experience to me
So good.
Fascinating piece of film.
I remember seeing a coal barge being loaded on the banks of the Yangtze river by people carrying baskets on their backs. Filthy conditions and the entire village was covered in black dust.
It is just TOO cool to see a mine train in operation!! I hope this one never gets shut down!! : D
Absolutely fascinating!
I rode this at Knott's Berry Farm! ....JKing! I enjoyed watching- thank you!
謝謝您的分享！讓我們追憶失去的景色！
I absolutely find the gold in youtube now.
this is just amazing. its like somthing out of a movie or a theme park ride. im amazed places like this existed.
Perhaps a family operation because women were pushing coal cars
along with Grandpa.
Love the "Briggs and Stratton" lawnmower engine railway!
Excellent doc. Looks like it rains over there 365 days per year.
Interesting seeing the cable haulage. The only place you can see trains like this in the UK is in a museum, and even then none of them are running.
This is astounding. As recent as 20 years ago? How could they have made any money? Thanks for this clip.
Remind us that what we had before.
Thank you very much for your videos
really interesting.
looks like the place is operated by a bunch of hardworking women?
The men would work in the tunnels, I suppose.
My respect for those people, hard work but well done.
I love those hats, they serve equally to the sun and water :)
I know what it is like to work in pain and that lady in the second or third to last view was working in pain, I wonder how many times those little engines have been rebuilt or repaired. Its amazing what you can get by with when you have no choice!
Superb Video! I like it!
A very nice and interesting movie. Thanks for uploading and thumbs up!
i am glad to the old way people are still working not today that every thing is given to them.
Was this filmed in '10 or earlier?Incredible operation; love that neat little engine & how they manually move the railcar:0. Great job all!
I found that really interesting. Thanks for sharing
Very simple. Very effective!
Film absolutnie genialny. Ciekawe, ile razy wykoleiły się te wagoniki ;)
Wow really nice , thanks
This is a great video. I was wondering if the were going to run a train over the suspension bridge shown around the 40 second time stamp.
Looks like maybe 500mm gauge? The 0-5-0 switching looks like hard work!
State of work by human power will be studying.
A treasure trove of wisdom.
the gondolas ( open goods wagons ) look like boxes on wheels . tiny trains .:) interesting to watch the crew shove the cars (wagons ) through the switches. (points ) thanks for sharing this vanished vista.
I dick around with a rail motorcar and trailers every weekend. My methods sort of look like this.
very interesting video
I grew up around coal mining in the mountains of Appslachia,Keokee Virginia,my dad worked for a Dollar a day,,,
ESTE VIDEO ME RECUERDA LOS VIEJOS SISTEMAS EN CANANEA, SONORA MÉXICO.
Instead of being on welfare, they were working hard. If we in the US are not careful, all the coal mines here will be shutdown too. It already is happening in WV, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Virginia.
+gravelydon becuse there are jobs available. you just start go digging up some land i nsearch for coal you will ahve about 50 different people trying to throw you in jail.
And so they should be.
Yeah because everyone on welfare lives down the road from a coal mine
Very nice, like !
9:18 0:01 good song🥺Like Celtic music
Loved the 90s. Why did all the mines close?
Daehawk they were out of coal so they hit bankruptcy
The imported coal is cheaper.
what are they throwing down the mountain at 4:21?
Overburden
Tailings, waste
Hard to imagine that this was the way it was in 1993! Primitive by any standards, and very sad. Hopefully, those workers are doing better today.
This may seem non realistic to some, this hard of work, I assure you it is not. When I was a kid in Houston, Texas I remember unloading lumber from boxcars on a siding. They were unloaded by hand, separated and stacked by hand and had to be covered with tarps at the end of the day. Try to imagine how many pieces of lumber were in a 60' long box car. If there were 6-8 kids we could do it in a day for $4. each and nobody was over 14 y.o./ Or how many shovels of sand does it take to make 15-16 tons of sand? but there were kids lined up on top of a long pile of sand where it was dredged out of The San Jacinto River as long as the dump truck shoveling sand until the truck was full then wait on another truck. $5. a day. Were we crazy? Hell no we could go buy a new pair of shoes for $6.95 at Thom McCanns ( all the same price) We could buy a pair of button fly Levis for $1.99 or even a pair of Tony Llama cowboy boots from $9-$11. We were like the "elite" at school because we had money for a Delaware Punch and a Baby Ruth candy bar. (about .17) We could go to a double or triple treat at the movie theater popcorn soda and milk dubs and still have change left for $2.00. Seems like people were so satisfied, happy and peaceful then.
Don Haas, YOU are so right, not only were you the ELITE, but you had the satisfaction that only working hard for some thing brings an individual.I remember all those things you mention, as far as what you were able to do with that money, times were better back then,
wow...great Doku!
🇧🇷 BRASIL, 07/06/2023. Essas mulheres são fortes executando esse trabalho árduo.
what did they dump in the river? was that coal? or was it just dirt? Thanks, Nice film
It seems the dump is overburden. To excavate minieral, we have to remove top soil usually known as overburden. Its a waste. in other words its Just Dirt..
Too bad it wasn’t narrated and offered info about the track system? Anyone know what gauge the tracks were? How many people worked there at its peak? I bet everyone gets the day off when there is a sunny day!
Interesting video.
look close it are mostly woman who do the hard labour, thanks for upload
Nice hats!
Ahh, '93 on 2nd watch so guessin' they've tapped it out:( So interesting!
Wow, that was a really hard work.
Wow...looks closer to 1893 than 1993. How could the extraction cost compare to the great open cut mines of Australia etc.? No wonder they closed. Still, as filthy and dangerous as it looks, still better fro the environment than the vast open cut mines. Wouldn't want to work there though. Great film. Thanks.
They have diesel engines and electric motor. And I would rather go and make some money than not.
TommyTwobats n
Klasse Doku!
co-ul? Is it a 2 sylablle word now?
Interesting video
Great vid. Many thanks for sharing.
What year was the filming??
Watch the intro
Watch the intro
Just Wow!
The Taiwanese should have Donald Trump as their president. He says he is going to bring it all back! He would fit right in!
These people must be polluting that watershed, dumping the spoil of those carts in the stream at 4:44. Their fresh caught fish must taste delicious with all that arsenic & coal tales in them!
The Taiwanese are delighted to know this is all gone now!
I don't suppose you happened to measure up any of the rolling stock?
I love the low tech ways of life.
First i thought they have helmets on... but it just agains't the rain hahaha
Nice
Safety steel capped boots - check! Safety conical straw hat - check! Hi-viz shawl (colour optional) - check! Signal & points man -check! Length of timber to tip wagons over edge with spoil - check! Loop of steel hawser to make sure wagon doesn't fall down slope - check!
The thing is, that there weren't that many workers - even though they all worked at a steady pace, without obvious instruction, just getting on with the job. Collectively they weren't really terribly productive - maybe each wagon held 2 cubic yards of what looked like fairly low grade coal, and there was only one line to the main rail station with its big coal wagon - so I guess that they were filling up 1 large wagon every 4 - 6 hours, maybe? A small coal fired power station needs probably 20 of those wagons each day, enough to heat & light maybe 200,000 homes (I did a bit of Googling for those figures, so if they are wrong, my apologies), so I'm not entirely surprised the mines were considered uneconomic & closed.
great stuff
...the Bowes Ry. is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, or, in layman's terms, a museum--albeit an operating one.
it does make me curious as to whatever happened to the railway lines cars & locos
哪个年月的片子，工人不戴安全帽作业？而且，穿花衣服的好像是三个女工。
Fascinating! Looks like hard work just rounding up the coal cars but I'm quite sure there's plenty more misery deep inside the coal mines themselves. With these little mom & pop coal operations, one can readily see the difficulty the Chinese government faces weening their countrymen off of coal.
The river into which the tailings were dumped (5:11) looks severely polluted. One hopes nature has managed to clean it up since the mining has ceased.
The title of this video is like a meme title from today but it's a real one from 10 years ago :'}
The coal mine wasn't that bad for it's time. They did have Diesel Locks, rails and countless machines from the transporter to train and sort Station. Even the deposit area was Close and environmental didn't seemed to be that hard. I just want to add that the most mines in the World are today less developed especially foreign Gold are Charcoal mines. When they are not runed from gvt's or big companys. Another thing to add the mens did work in the mine . The Womens outside both of them did a hard job.
Who is narrating
面白い映像ですね🎵(⌒‐⌒)
Awesome
Interesting film. The equipment they're using looks very old and out of date.
It's like going back 100 years in America when only progress mattered.
Fascinating
Western women should be working like this.
Sem dúvidas...são um povo sofrido, mas... perseverantes.
Se para homens é um trabalho forçado,imagine para mulheres.
😊 Top 👍
3:59 y doesn't he have a door?
Physical labour, they are sitting on at kart machines are doing most the work
Very job
哇 快三十年了呀
Ja piernicze to w Tajlandii kobity nawet wagony kolejowe przewracają ! ale zapiernicz konkretny ...
it's so traditional technique
Very eco friendly
Impresionante.¡¡¡
因為周偉航轉了這影片，跑來看看
Norfolk Southern/CSX/BNSF would all have a good laugh at that tiny railroad
What a terrible waste, what a terrible way of living, what a terrible of scorching this beautiful country!🙏 Blessings to all whom give their heart, health and moreover; their lives!!!
this is a vision of hell. I'd last a day or two.
O novo material do futuro metro da Trofa!
Manual Labor at it finest.
本当に、台湾の人は良く働きます。日本にも有ったのですが・・・。
女性も良く働きます。