S1 - Ep 452 - Winelands Light Railway, Stellenbosch!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2024
- Our visit to Winelands Light Railway felt like a delightful return to childhood as we revelled in the joy of riding on scale model steam trains just outside Stellenbosch. Meeting Andries Keyser, the ingenious mind behind this extensive operation and master builder of model trains, was a stroke of luck. His passion for his craft was palpable as he shared insights into the effort invested by him, his mentors and friends. Witnessing the culmination of their dedication, seeing the smiles on the faces of both children and parents, filled us with immense happiness. We left with warm wishes for their continued success and a profound sense of gratitude for such a wonderful experience. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #winelandslightrailway #stellenbosch
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I'm speechless! The beauty of the surroundings and the magnificent engines takes ones breath away. What an incredible gift to the nation. Thank you Andries and thank you Curtis and Sonja for sharing your day with us. Fantastic!
Incredible work Andries. Thanks for sharing your passion. Thanks to you Dust bugs for this video.
Absolutely wonderful, incredible and beautiful! We appreciate men like this who dedicate themselves to preserving and building steam engines! So grateful!👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏
Hi DustBugs Travel this was a awesome trip and a amazing video. Thanks Curtis we saw Andries passion for model steam engine's.
Thank you Curtis and Sonya this was a very interesting episode.
Thank you Curtis for taking us into the workshop with Andries. Seeing all the lathes and turning tools etc to manufacture all parts needed to build these locomotives is unbelievable. Thank you.❤
We used to ride on one of these small trains when we were young kids. So enjoyable!!!!
Wow guys ive watched all your adventures so far ..but wow... this epic model train one has blown me away ... my father in law is turning 92 next month ..worked for SATS all his life and is a train nut.... this will be a crowning epic adventure for him to go to ... thank you so so much ...really ..you guys are amazing
Brilliant episode as usual, this was so informative, darn I will look at locomotives in a different light. Thank you.
Dit is een echte trein liefhebber episode, leuk dat Dutch Niels zoveel tijd uittrok voor zijn uitgebreide verhaal over alle soorten van technische informatie. Gelukkig dat hij nog opgeleid is door meerdere ‘oudgedienden’ met kostbare kennis over dit ambacht van treintjes bouwen. Je gezicht zag er in de werkplaats tijdens de uitleg vast uit als van een kind in een snoepwinkel 😄🚂. Vanaf de 24e ga ik de Zwitserse treinen weer eens ervaren, alles altijd in uitstekende staat en punktlich op tijd.
Fascinating interview with a chap with such enthusiasm for his locomotive art, most enjoyable.
Hi Curtis Sonia and Dusty, this was such fun to watch, definitely a family adventure in the future and the passion with which he talks, wow wow, love it ❤❤
Hi you two! What a fantastic surprise! I enjoyed every moment. The park view from the railway is just as fascinating as the little loco's themselves. Your time with Andries teaches one a lot about how you can be rewarded by doing what you enjoy. The custom made tunnel was one of the highlights of this tour.
I'm by now quite sure your next surprise will blow me off my feet again. Can't wait!
Keep safe!
Well this is impressive! Fascinating stuff that Andries told us...mindblowing stuff..wow. A man who just loves what he is doing. I just love the sound of the wheels on the railway line...that is a wondeful sound when you take a "slaaptrein"...thanx for this guys.
Respect!
Curtis and Sonia this was absolutely fantastic. I love steam trains and a visit to this place is a must not only for children but for adults as well. I am a pensioner and i am definitely going to treat myself to a ride on one of these steam trains. Andries gave you a brilliant explanation of the machine shop
Hi guys brilliant video what a lovely place to go for a day with the kids and the grown up kids. Could have listened to Andreas all day so sad the skills are dieing out but at least Andreas is keeping some going. I never knew that the railway tracks were smaller in SA it gives you an idea why they started to decline. Loved all the old tractors thoroughly enjoyed this video thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one
What a fascinating experience. Andries really loves what he is doing, and he is helping to keep the craft alive.
Hello you 2. I have not been around for at least 3 months, time to check you out again. long story cut short I had to have a knee replacement again, had two major operations, in 2 months of each other, but I am back now and enjoying your program again.
Hullo everyone! Sorry I havent been around for a while. I have been down with COVID and very sick. but I am now in recovery and what a lovely lovely treat!!! We would so have loved to visit this place. My dad in particular, and he would also have gone first class. But also he would have loved seeing the shed and all the finer details. Its a very pleasant place with all the trees, and the animals and a wonderful picnic area. So nice to just walk around and enjoy. Thank you, I so enjoyed this one.
Ha Anna, ja ik werd al een beetje bezorgd over je afwezigheid hier 😊. Vervelend dat je door COVID geveld werd, hopelijk voel je je nu weer een stuk beter. Hier in Nederland is de griep all over the place, veel van mijn collega’s zijn ziek. Je valt meteen weer met je neus in de boter met the Dutchman Niels en zijn deskundige verhaal over treintjes 🚂🇳🇱🇿🇦. Goed om de Dutch Afrikaanse Nieuw Zeelandse weer in ons midden te hebben ❤
@@ingeborgvanderveer789 ja, ik ben wat herstelde van COVID maar noch niet 100% Het is een kwaai virus. Hope you stay well and virus free. Hugzzzzz♥️
Nice farm and setup. The mini trains are really stunning. All the effort to create them. Wow. I enjoyed it so much. Till the next one where i will be on board. Thanks....
A very interesting episode….. I thought I knew people with a passion for steam but I was proven wrong today.
Thank you C&S
I am in absolute awe of the entire set-up at WLR! The accumulated wealth of knowledge Andries has on steam trains would put Google to shame 😂. A true "train head" . As a fellow admirer of steam locomotives I am so chuffed to learn about the existence of WLR through your wonderful video. Definitely on the cards for a visitation when I'm next in Stellenbosch. Thank you.
What another stunning video from you two. I totally love locomotives. Growing up it was one of our means of transport. We loved the train rides.❤❤
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Fantastic, great place, great coverage you guys. Fellow steam locomorive enthusiast here, but my collection is at a much smaller scale. I must be one of the highest altitude model railway enthusiasts - ex-Cape Town, now living in Cusco, Peru around 3300m. Will definitely visit this place next time in CT, hopefully later this year 😊
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. I’ve wanted to do this train trip, but unable to physically. I also really love the setting. There’s something very special about our Winelands.
Love that you're in our area!!!!
I hope it was my suggestion for you to visit the WLR, it sounds like you enjoyed it.
My late dad would've loved this episode/ visiting that place. He left behind a huge pile of old Model Railway magazines he bought every month when he was young, imagining he'd find time to make things when he got older. He didn't. I do remember some time in his 40's he nearly bought a farm that would've stretched his resources, largely because he could imagine having a little railway line carrying feed in a few km from the gate to where he would've put his feedlot. In the end he chose something he could manage, instead.
How many people have dreams/ partly executed plans like that? I think most people overestimate the time they have left over for themselves, and maybe most such dreams just have to be given up, so when someone manages to persist and make such a thing reality, that's a pretty exceptional person. Thank goodness we still have a few of them left in the country.
It's very unfortunate that most folks move on from this life without having had the opportunity to chase their dreams. It's quite sad actually. 😢
Whau, dit was nou interesant, baie dankie. Die plek is onder ons neus en ek weet nie eers van dit nie. Die gesprek met Andries was baie interessant. Baie dankie.
This was my all-time favourite episode. I appreciate the explanation as to why the rail transport system is in decline in South Africa. I wish to dispute Andries's statement that the engineering skills arent't taught in schools. I taught in an exclusive school in Zimbabwe. Our senior pupils made a model steam engine which we used to demonstrate in junior science classes. I remember it setting alight some passions for engineering in those pupils. They went on to join the engineering club and some went on to make engineering a career choice.
So much fun. I rode on the one in Centurion. That Engineer has so much passion for what he does. Great to see.
when i lived in krugersdorp we had train by florida lake and a track few km from lake with model trains.one by lake not working the other think still running
Wonderful !!!! love it !!! xoxoxox
What a lovely vlog indeed. I love steam locomotives as well. As a mechanic I look at these pieces of art and am always in absolute wonder and admiration for the engineers and men and women that made these marvels of engineering. Sonya I was pleased to hear your boet was born in Umtali. So to was my Dad back in 1928 and my Sister as well. Do I take it you are also Rhodesian. There was a beautiful miniature railway in Bulawayo as well at the Bulawayo Park. As a child growing up up in the 60’s it was a fantastic place to visit. At Christmas there were lights and Exhibits all over the park and of course the trains just fantastic. My Dad worked in the Umtali Railway workshops snd most of my uncles and cousins were in Bulawayo Railway work shops. They literally worked all over Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia when the railways were the mainstay of freight. This episode is one of my favourites. Baai Dankie mense.
Ken Australia 🇦🇺
Sonia was born in Tzaneen in the good old Transvaal. 😁 Her parents had returned from Rhodesia soon after their first child was born. Neither of us has ever been to Zim.
@@DustBugsTravel howzit Curtis thanks for the reply much appreciated indeed. Tzaneen is also a wonderful place indeed. Went through there several times on the way to Phalaborwa where my uncle lived and worked on the mine there. Explored a bit with my folks. Through the Strydom tunnel, Olifants river, Blyde river canyon etc. an exceptional part of the world indeed. I really am enjoying your escapades and adventures. It’s remarkable the places you have been. So many people stick to their familiar surroundings and never appreciate the places that are literally on their doorstep. I worked in Zambia and Eritrea and I promise you I would not swap my experiences for anything. From the stifling heat in the desert dunes in the Eritrean lowlands to swimming in the Red Sea at Masawa. I have been lucky to see things very few westerners have seen. I count myself as being one of the lucky ones.
Thanks to you both for this brilliant channel which I find absolutely fascinating. You are both great presenters and what I like the most us that you are passionate about what you do and have only positive things to say. Thank you again and as always, safe travels.
Cheers Ken Australia 🇦🇺
Briljant regtig iets besonders.
if u sak his cv he said look at my hands and ask them
Are there other places like Animal Farm in SA? Do you made a video in Franshoek?
We visited several places in and around Franschhoek in Episodes 106, 107 and 108. Enjoy! 😁 There are many places with animals all over the country. 😍🐐
@@DustBugsTravel I loved your visit to Volkswagen's factory in Uitenhage, I wanted to watch more details like within assembly line and models made for SA market, but I don't know if they will allow this.
So Andries only learned English from the age of 13? What school did he go to?
If you were in an Afrikaans school those days you only started to learn English from about Standard 3 (grade 5, 11 years old) if I remember correctly.
@@nic0072 And only speak it when forced to🤣🤣
There's a big difference between learning a language at school and speaking it fluently.
Unfortunately very few artisans nowdays have the skill of Andries and the old artisans. There is just no pride in workmanship now it is so sad that the new generation don't have the pride and skill anymore.