Fairy tale stuff, remarkable coverage, and the brave heart, cute little locomotive, still going great guns. Old George Stephenson would sure be proud. :)
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
@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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.)
For an steam engine to work you only need something to burn and water. Thats it. On places like these an steam engine is the best thing for the job. Altrough im wonderring how the boiler doesent explode when i look at this thing
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.
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.
Lou Lecaudey yeah pretty sure. Maybe he held the whistle for that long to help with excessive pressure. Not sure if the engine has a pop-off valve though. It should because that’s a pretty big safety hazard imo
+Brett Cheeseman Valve timing is way off on one side - it should have four evenly spaced "beats" for each revolution of the driving wheels, but with the timing off it sounds syncopated. It could be a worn slide valve on one side of one of the cylinders.
+I post Random stuff Yes, that's right. Smaller is like gearing down. Your engine produces the same power, but will go faster with large drivers, pull more with small drivers - just not as fast.
Prince Rahul To help reduce excessive pressure in the boiler. Most steam locomotives have a pop-off valve at the top of the boiler near the middle that automatically releases steam when the pressure becomes too high. This engine looks like it doesn’t have one, which in my opinion is quite concerning.....🧐
Most of China has been modernized to Diesel and Electric. However in some areas coal is massively abundant, so why change over to something new and have to lay out all that info-structure for it when you can just stick with what works.
@@joeman1437 Exactly, not only that but steam is more efficient than diesel, we're talking between 40% and 60% efficient compared to Diesel which is around 30% to 40%.
Of the most beautiful train scenes I've ever seen from China!!! Thanks for sharing it :-) Best regards from Greece!
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.
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…
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
3:25 even the station house looks like a locomotive, neat.
Very nice collection, I remembered my old days
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.
Shooing chickens off of the tracks! Hilarious! This reminds me of seeing steam operating in India back in '80. That was a privilege.
That steam locomotive is definitely worth restoring.
it looks completely shot. Would be like building a new locomotive at this point
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
I love the scenes in this film - so alive !
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 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.
That engine never gives up she keeps going day in day out what a workhorse it is super video
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.
Superb Video! I like it!
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.
4:25 was a HUGE waste of steam and fuel, but it looked cool.
The fuel is low grade coal......cheap and plentiful in China
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...
Sounds and looks like it needs rebuilt
@Andy Wilderness Lol
Excellent shot. Like .
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!!
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
5:25 chickens are stupid no matter where they live!
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.
1:13 beautiful shot!
Great vid, thx for sharing!
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.
Might be a rusty train and old but it still works fine :)
Rock ballast also protects the wooden ties , and secures the rail / tie assembly to the rail bed...
An other train, an other world. Thank you,
I found this video to be extremely interesting
superb footage.
Nice video. Nostalgy from 1964.
4:21 wou!! . Extraccion a fondo de la caldera , abran completado su nibel de agua antes de eso , para dar ese hermoso show!!.
Very interesting video, like !
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
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*
Nice coverage of steam locomotives!
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!
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
great film with lovely locations..........greetings from india.
Aw, what a cute little locomotive! I would let it hit my stalled vehicle on a rail road any day.
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.)
newby here...
Do these trains normally dump live coal onto the track?
What is the point in dumping the steam at 4:40?
AffordBindEquipment
Boiler blow down to get rid of sediment
How beautiful ❤.
Very nice location and train
that whistle lets off too much steam and is too weak to make any loud noise
Legend has it, every time they blow the whistle, boiler pressure drops by 25%.
@@trainzguy2472 hahaha
Oh man that looks so cool
Thank you, Shibanxi!!
Очень эпично!!! Моё восхищение!!
The Bluebell railway needs to work on its rolling stock!
safety? We don't need any stinkin' safety. Btw Gorgeous landscapes!!!
For an steam engine to work you only need something to burn and water. Thats it. On places like these an steam engine is the best thing for the job. Altrough im wonderring how the boiler doesent explode when i look at this thing
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.
Remind me, do cars or trains go on roads?
This is fantastic
I think it’s in JiaYang LeShan ,Sichuan province ,China。乐山嘉阳小火车
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.
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
4:35 I don’t think they have a safety valve. Good problem solving skills though.
Great vid
Great movie !!! Greetings from Polish.
4.10 - what happens ? Blow-down ?
Lou Lecaudey yeah pretty sure. Maybe he held the whistle for that long to help with excessive pressure. Not sure if the engine has a pop-off valve though. It should because that’s a pretty big safety hazard imo
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.
@3.31 it looks like the building was styled after a steam Loco . :-)
Brilliant - oh to be on the footplate!!
2:09 I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can
2:42 I thought I could I thought I could I thought I could
It looks so goofy I love it 😆😆
燃えカスまき散らしながら走る蒸気なんて初めて見た。
excellent et surrealiste!!
at the beginning, the steamer sounds like its mostly running on one cylinder.
+Brett Cheeseman
Valve timing is way off on one side - it should have four evenly spaced "beats" for each revolution of the driving wheels, but with the timing off it sounds syncopated. It could be a worn slide valve on one side of one of the cylinders.
What's happening here @1:40 ? Is he dumping excess coals because hes reached the top & no longer needs them?
They probably had the fire too well lit, and had to dump coal, before the safety valve went off due to excess steam
Sounds like the timing is off
At around one minute: pf - pff - PAFF - pf - pf - pff - PAFF - pf - pf - pff - PAFF - pf
Way off.
Here are the scenery of the remote mountain areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, the original ecological scenery of China.
Shibanxi the Chinese Narrow Gauge Engine
5:51 [train whistle]
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why are the drivers so small on the locomotive?
larger drivers give you speed, smaller give you more pulling power for steep grades
Randall Martineau Cool thanks for the info!
+I post Random stuff Yes, that's right. Smaller is like gearing down. Your engine produces the same power, but will go faster with large drivers, pull more with small drivers - just not as fast.
1:50 good way to burn all your ties away.
MagnetOnlyMotors Yeah I’ve never seen a steamer dump ash like that before. Maybe they don’t wait to do that at the ash pit. Still looks unsafe tho
beautiful video joaquim antunes são paulo brasil
thats really really neat
Where would china be without Richard Trevithick?
What happened to it?
4:22 Small train, big smoke
steam
3.18 evn the buildings look like trains lol..
3:18
2:07 train chugging
1:48 WOW! No ash pan, I guess, talk about a fire hazard!
what is the specific gauge?
30 inches.
Zephyr4501 OK so 2ft 6in
Yes.
1:39 [train whistle] 1:44 Hot cinders fell out
Film super !!! SUB !!! Pozdrowienia z Polski ;)
Do the steam locomotives 🚂 pull freight trains 🚞?
Why he is releasing steam
Prince Rahul To help reduce excessive pressure in the boiler. Most steam locomotives have a pop-off valve at the top of the boiler near the middle that automatically releases steam when the pressure becomes too high. This engine looks like it doesn’t have one, which in my opinion is quite concerning.....🧐
A beautiful vídeo, where is that?
china
Great video Thanks
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4:19 - What is the engineer doing there? This looks like a massive waste of steam.
I believe he is “blowing down” at least that would explain the steam coming from the side. It helps to prevent boiler scale.
Yup, blowing down. And for the purposes stated by mrnintendo
They still run steam wow
Most of China has been modernized to Diesel and Electric. However in some areas coal is massively abundant, so why change over to something new and have to lay out all that info-structure for it when you can just stick with what works.
@@joeman1437 Exactly, not only that but steam is more efficient than diesel, we're talking between 40% and 60% efficient compared to Diesel which is around 30% to 40%.
Very effective coal burner, excellent maintsend engine as udual in China. Wildfires not rare in rhis region. P.P. THAT WAS SARCASM.
Very beautiful