1970s NG steam 3 - the Avontuur line

[@BennettBrookRailway]

Great video. Really nice to see 118 at work in her 'natural habitat'!

[@crewkerne40]

Fascinating video,thanks for posting it.I was in PE in Nov.76,only for one weekend so missed this trip,typical!.Alan.

[@one1ballreilly]

Great work Ted - one of the advantages of being a merchant mariner - who also speaks Dutch!!

[@blairgowrieforestrailwayan2786]

Dear Ted I would like to use one or two stills from your video 1970s NG steam - the Avontuur line in an article for the Hornby Railway Collectors of south Africa News letter, May I have your blessing? Regards Andrew Johnson

[@struck2soon]

Went to PE in 1988 on the "Savona Star" to load citrus. Steam was just about hanging on doing shunt and local trip workings, and also managed a trip on the "Apple Express". Hard to believe it has all gone now.

[@carmennykamp6416]

Het dit so geniet om te sien ! Is dit die lokomotief wat nou in Avontuur staan ?

[@DragonsAndDragons777]

Very nice!

[@tedpolet5431]

Thanks, Paul - glad you like it.

[@4501trainman]

Thanks for sharing this great sound video on the South-African 2-foot gauge NG-15 2-8-2 steam locomotive. I hear this railway also operated 2-foot gauge 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt steam locomotives. Here in Hempstead,Texas there are both a 2-foot gauge NG-15 2-8-2,and a NGG-13 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt that are supposed to run on an estate.

[@tedpolet5431]

The NGG16s and NGG13s were very much at home on this railway, but I never saw them run until I went to North Wales in 2015! I only saw an NGG13 in the shed at Port Elizabeth, with a run down boiler certificate, in 1976. There is a web page on my visit to the Avontuur railway here: www.narrowgauge.nl/site/english/avo1.htm I never knew there were South African 2ft gauge locomotives preserved in Texas, thanks for mentioning.

[@4501trainman]

Ted Polet- Go to----No. NG 50 in steam in Hempstead Texas,15 November 2015,and click on the picture down to the right to enlarge. Information can also be found at-----Re: Two foot gauge private railroad in Hempstead,Tx. I hope this helps.

[@tedpolet5431]

Thanks, I had a look, great photo.

[@patelbharatbabulal2983]

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[@Tom-Lahaye]

Superb footage for the time! Must have been a top notch super 8 film camera, that recorded sound synchronously?,because sound matches film perfectly. (for those younger people, moving pictures were filmed on light sensitive film, and this film had to be processed like analogue photographs, sound had to be recorded seperately on tape, and when making the montage you had to physicaly cut the film and the sound tape, in such a way that sound was matching with the film, a very laborious process. That's the reasson back then that most people shooting 8mm film left sound away and not much people did film trains anyway. When home video camera's came in the early '80's things went that much simpler to do, and computer based edditing in the late '90's did the rest)

[@tedpolet5431]

+dieselmupke Actually I edited the sound into the digital footage which I recorded from the film. I used sound from a video tape which a friend made 25 years ago, and tailored it to the video. The software I used was Virtualdub (for the video editing) and Audacity (to tailor the sound). Audacity has a function that enables you to 'stretch' or compress the sound so it matches the images.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Works well, the result is very professional. It's like dragging sound from one scene into another in your editting software.

[@tedpolet5431]

Well, actually it is more involved. You slowly assemble the sound track in Audacity, scene by scene, then play it in Virtualdub together with the video image to see what you have done, and correct it. I sometimes have 10 sound sources open at the same time, all timed within a fraction of a second. It takes about one hour for each minute of sound.

[@Wildstar40]

1:11 Go dog go !