Shibanxi

Steam and electric powered passenger and freight trains on this Chinese narrow gauge railway.

[@tobiramasenju7669]

That steam locomotive is leaking fire holy shit

[@BlackoutFury]

nah it probably just dropped ashes that it doesn't need lol

[@heatedchocolate2]

Looks like some lit coal made it into the ashpan.

[@jacquesblaque7728]

@@heatedchocolate2 You do have a mix down there on the grates. Not neatly segregated. Check inside ash-tray of running woodstove sometime- same thing.

[@MagnetOnlyMotors]

3:25 even the station house looks like a locomotive, neat.

[@jsangeetsagar4971]

Fairy tale stuff, remarkable coverage, and the brave heart, cute little locomotive, still going great guns. Old George Stephenson would sure be proud. :)

[@MrKotBonifacy]

Steam loco Kp4, as Sonia Suczka noticed 4 yrs ago - Wiki has an article on it (in German, Polish and Russian)

[@stephensmith799]

And Richard Trevithick…

[@lynktalz]

I love the scenes in this film - so alive !

[@Kyntteri]

1:45 88 miles per hour!

[@OfficialUSKRprogram]

Judging by the way it's wobbling, it would probably derail if it went half that speed.

[@warrior3456_]

@@OfficialUSKRprogram it looks like it tries to lmao

[@garryferrington811]

Shooing chickens off of the tracks! Hilarious! This reminds me of seeing steam operating in India back in '80. That was a privilege.

[@euclideszoto997]

That steam locomotive is definitely worth restoring.

[@mrbowlingcrazy]

it looks completely shot. Would be like building a new locomotive at this point

[@zao7035]

I like how the train driver back away the train just to show off the steam to the tourists.

[@indridcold8433]

The driver loves job. It is really obvious.

[@konstantin88181]

He's imagining his loco is a dragon

[@mikewinkelman7015]

That engine never gives up she keeps going day in day out what a workhorse it is super video

[@kishorpanchal382]

Very nice collection, I remembered my old days

[@wallymartin3961]

Thank you, Shibanxi!!

[@rajatshubhramukherjee1507]

Nice coverage of steam locomotives!

[@sidirodromeas]

Of the most beautiful train scenes I've ever seen from China!!! Thanks for sharing it :-) Best regards from Greece!

[@cesarbravo822]

1:13 beautiful shot!

[@WooWooMad]

Great video. I just hope the Chinese government realise the tourist potential of this magnificent railway.

[@janlichota4179]

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

[@Thomas1980]

Superb Video! I like it!

[@williambryant5946]

The small wheels give those little locomotives lots of pulling power.

[@KingSlimjeezy]

more traction indeed. the way they were running that thing though, it aint gonna last long..

[@droganwinterfell7545]

​@@KingSlimjeezy I mean the fact that it's lasted this long, a testimony to 19th century engineering.

[@KingSlimjeezy]

@@droganwinterfell7545 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII AMMMMMMM IRRRRROON MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN

[@stephanesonneville]

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.

[@williambryant5946]

@@stephanesonneville no the smaller wheel gives more torque and larger wheels give more speed.

[@keyclone888]

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.

[@wheely04]

An other train, an other world. Thank you,

[@Zoydian]

Great vid, thx for sharing!

[@faainspector6353]

Rock ballast also protects the wooden ties , and secures the rail / tie assembly to the rail bed...

[@nkproad777]

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.

[@4123jstein]

Great show!

[@FerroCarrilNEA]

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!!

[@jimclarke1108]

I found this video to be extremely interesting

[@stephensmith799]

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.)

[@johnbrown9092]

Brilliant - oh to be on the footplate!!

[@indiantrains4156]

great film with lovely locations..........greetings from india.

[@user-ih6bg7yf2u]

Ё - моё, живой паровоз. Огнедышащий дракон.

[@konstantin88181]

китайцы любят драконов, а у этого чувака в подчинении свой собственный=)

[@kayzeaza]

Oh man that looks so cool

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

superb footage.

[@quintoflyer]

Great video Thanks

[@RomekSolnicki]

Great movie !!! Greetings from Polish.

[@ravindrapagare4770]

Very nice location and train

[@BrettonFerguson]

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.

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

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.

[@southernwulf3335]

Sounds and looks like it needs rebuilt

[@montalynsmith805]

@Andy Wilderness Lol

[@ameno02]

excellent et surrealiste!!

[@nicopavvi8494]

Why I'm imaging a stationmaster announcing that the train will be late because there is a chicken on the rails?

[@natehill8069]

She was better off before she started. They were safely away til they saw her...

[@svennoren9047]

Or the station cafeteria now has steamed chicken on the menu.

[@natehill8069]

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...

[@indridcold8433]

Aw, what a cute little locomotive! I would let it hit my stalled vehicle on a rail road any day.

[@CRazyAsLaino-2001]

It looks so goofy I love it 😆😆

[@johncrawford4754]

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!

[@MagnetOnlyMotors]

5:25 chickens are stupid no matter where they live!

[@jugalkishoregodne1314]

How beautiful ❤.

[@princerahul6565]

Great i love it

[@WhyAyeMann]

the timing of the valve gear is wrong, made so by ages of wear and tear on that poor engine!

[@LutzDerLurch]

@Martyn Watson Unlikely.

[@dollin9515]

@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.

[@AKATenn]

honestly, how old that looks, im surprised it still has round wheels.

[@bellowphone]

Can someone explain to me how you know the timing is wrong; what to look/listen for; how to fix it?

[@weylinwest9505]

@@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.

[@jeanpierreragequit1726]

fantastic !

[@ivortomana]

Very interesting video, like !

[@user-xl3eu7bl6h]

Очень эпично!!! Моё восхищение!!

[@jamesapowell3506]

thats really really neat

it was amazing!

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

4:25 was a HUGE waste of steam and fuel, but it looked cool.

[@alcopower5710]

This is fantastic

[@ttss2209]

燃えカスまき散らしながら走る蒸気なんて初めて見た。

[@bennytheadventurekidbtak2346]

Might be a rusty train and old but it still works fine :)

[@vishwajitpawar4076]

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.

[@klebdapleb3928]

more torque for pulling. slower speed, but more power

[@silvermaschinereiner]

super video!!!!!

[@AsifAzadpurluv100]

Very beautiful

[@paris081159]

Nice video. Nostalgy from 1964.

[@FerroCarrilNEA]

4:21 wou!! . Extraccion a fondo de la caldera , abran completado su nibel de agua antes de eso , para dar ese hermoso show!!.

[@bitsnpieces11]

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.

[@robertgift]

Interesting video! What is wrong with the coal train steam locomotive that its rhythm is so uneven? Thank you.

[@Secondude]

01:47 omg!! Train is on fire!!! Oh wait, it's steam train. But that one looks dangerous!

[@braysfinds7479]

Looks like a poorly welded firebox is why its doing that, That's very dangerous in regions with dry grass and forests.

[@Cnw8701]

It looks like they're dumping ashes before passing the fields to prevent potential safety hazards.

[@TotoDG]

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.

[@bluefoxy6478]

Looks like it doesn't have that good of maintanience. Then again, maybe it just looks that way cause it looks very dirty.

[@WH_10]

Thank god ROCK cant set on fjre

[@smilevideobritain499]

amazingly interesting

[@buntik1687]

20 stars!!

[@raisagorbachov]

The Bluebell railway needs to work on its rolling stock!

[@ado75]

Great vid

[@alfred024]

Ach Du liebe Güte. Welches Baujahr ist denn diese Lok???Schickt ihr mal ne BR 44 oder ne BR 52 hin

[@Mercmad]

@3.31 it looks like the building was styled after a steam Loco . :-)

[@peterh9427]

Remind me, do cars or trains go on roads?

[@shaalis]

safety? We don't need any stinkin' safety. Btw Gorgeous landscapes!!!

[@ravindrapagare4770]

Superb

[@AndreasBurcev]

Spirited Away.

[@UnknownIdaho]

1:48 WOW! No ash pan, I guess, talk about a fire hazard!

[@cameronknapp7315]

Do the steam locomotives 🚂 pull freight trains 🚞?

[@marblesjn]

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.

[@josuemiron4742]

Muito bonito !!! São Bernardo do Campo - SP - Brasil

[@chtimewarp]

Oh how much I wish there was a working narrow gauge railway in America.

[@paullangford8179]

There are. But they're mostly getting money as tourist attractions, rather than freight.

[@ValterDiordiu]

Muito interessante esse vídeo,gostei muito!!!

[@nguyenxuan9531]

蔬菜花田非常美丽。村里的活动非常混乱。

[@notharry9328]

2012:Nah 2013:I Said Nah 2013:No 2014:Nope 2015:NEVER 2016:stfu 2017:Hıhıh? 2018:i said no 2019:YES YES YES!

[@afork2600]

can't wait till someone invents originality

[@oneconarguy5019]

Is that a JoJo reference?

[@notharry9328]

Well Yes,But Actually No

[@thestonedraider8684]

@@afork2600 well I guess you're incapable, you will have to let someone else think for you lol

[@afork2600]

@@thestonedraider8684 *making sense has left the chat*

[@Thomas1980]

guter Film!!!

[@theophilhist6455]

Charming in that it looks like 1920.

[@3DstevenlodzHD]

super!

[@BananaABC100]

IS THAT in China ? I have never seen that type of passenger cargo before.

[@AffordBindEquipment]

newby here... Do these trains normally dump live coal onto the track? What is the point in dumping the steam at 4:40?

[@tomedgar4375]

AffordBindEquipment Boiler blow down to get rid of sediment

[@johnroberts7924]

Wow!

[@JungleYT]

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

[@johncochran8497]

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.

[@JungleYT]

@@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?

[@johncochran8497]

@@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.

[@chinahamyku6583]

Here are the scenery of the remote mountain areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, the original ecological scenery of China.

[@albertoarcudi8431]

Molto pittoresco!

[@johnwong1018]

I think it’s in JiaYang LeShan ,Sichuan province ,China。乐山嘉阳小火车

[@Krzysiek5050]

super

[@pedro20329]

A beautiful vídeo, where is that?

[@gerrard1144]

china

[@yz4me60]

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.

[@yz4me60]

*Orbisonia

[@huge_balls]

1:45 Wow is that normal? Sorry but I'm new to this locomotive stuff. I find these machines fascinating for some reason, and someday I'd like to see one in real life.

[@jbear4910]

both are correct

[@marichuybau5158]

Llove see they train

[@budgiedeluxe8652]

What happened to it?

[@Catalina._]

4:22 Small train, big smoke

[@Kaleb06421]

steam

[@user-yr9xq4dc2o]

beautiful video joaquim antunes são paulo brasil

[@szlakowiec]

Film super !!! SUB !!! Pozdrowienia z Polski ;)