Steam tramway of Belgium , ASVI Lobbes -Thuin

[@rayisland23]

Beautiful well maintained older equipment, Love it

[@danielcoetzee5793]

00:28 You just got to love that whistle......! I thought I would never hear it again...! I grew up near a railway shunting yard back in the day when steam locomotives were in their hay day still!

[@williamgrice2867]

Great video, i have to go there, it looks really good. Never seen some of the trams they have here. 👏👏👏

[@Matias-jg1eh]

I love steam trains and trams! GREATINGS FROM ARGENTINA!!!

[@TotoDG]

You and me both, brother!

[@michaelXXLF]

Now if only Belgium had kept all those tram lines that once criss-crossed the country. Such a shame! Great video, now I'll have to find out where exactly this is and go there.

[@michaelXXLF]

ominous The Belgians weren't the only ones to abandon trams, for sure, but I once read that the Belgian network was the largest in the world. The motor car played a major role in the abandoning as well.

[@jg-7780]

At least most of your major cities still have trams, most cities in America barely have passenger rail at all.

[@michaelXXLF]

@@jg-7780 Most American cities barely have public transport. Good thing Liège/Luik gets underway and rebuilds its tram!

[@danielcoetzee5793]

Are these still operated on a daily basis or only on special occasions....? So good that they are preserved and kept so well. Would love to pay them a visit and take a ride somewhere. Beautiful old Citroen parked next to the rail near the end....! Would love one for my collection...!

[@edisone1]

Quite a fine variety of euipment ! The ART 300 sounds so much like my old Dodge truck that it made me laugh

[@victorpaul904]

🇮🇳🍁💐 i love 💕 you steam tramways service 🍁💐🥰🥰🙏💕🍁🇮🇳

[@rwdonker2244]

Mooie video. Prachtige Belgische Stoomtramlocomotief.

[@Martindyna]

Very interesting video, thanks for sharing.

[@ian_b]

What a little beauty!

[@jorgesabater8640]

Delightful. Quite new to me.

[@luisantoniomarrega1120]

Interessantes essa locomotivas e os bondes também. Abraço e parabéns a esse país que da valor ao transporte ferroviário! Rio RJ Brazil

[@topearner2007]

Great Belgian train story!

[@neilforbes416]

Considering the carriages she's pulling, she's behaving more like a small train than a tram. The lines distinguishing between tram and train are somewhat blurred here.

[@andredescheemaecker5865]

Long time ago trams in Antwerp used to pull these carriages, mostly at night, trough the city and the port on the same rails used by the normal trams. No one would have called them trains.

[@weeardguy]

Most tramlines, especially the rural ones, played a very important role in all kinds of transport, not just passengers. My city as well (Purmerend, The Netherlands) had a tramsystem up to the north of Amsterdam, and a fork (the busstop there now is still called 'Fork') at about 2/3 up the line, to also get to Monnickendam and Edam. At some point, the system was extended from Purmerend to Alkmaar. Especially the tram towards Purmerend was a vital connection for farmers along the route who would transport their cattle and live-stock to our cattle-market on tuesdays. Other farmers would use special cars to get their milk transported to distributors in the region. Besides farmers, there have probably been all kinds of goods and produce that have been transported by tram. The Netherlands, just like Belgium, was covered in rural tramlines, and none of them have survived and few only exist as museumlines by now.

[@neilforbes416]

@@weeardguy To learn that none of your tramlines continue to exist as commuter/cargo lines and only a few as museum lines, is quite sad really. That can only be put down to a myopic view of transport needs by relevant authorities. By the way, a visit to Edam, that would be a "cheesy" sort of place! LOL

[@weeardguy]

@@neilforbes416 It was just short-term thinking, not helped by the fact that many tramnetworks were heavily damaged in WW2. The autobus started to play an increasing role in public transport around the 40's and 50's. Many munincipalities (hope I got that word right) saw the bus as the ultimate new form of transport, which isn't totally stupid as it doesn't need rails to run on. Only the systems in the Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam survived: Groningen and other places usually had tramservices as well, but they disappeared as well. Especially the last decade, tramsystems are showing a sign of clear revival, as many busroutes have become so popular, buses can hardly handle th flow of passengers anymore (the best example I can think of are the buses that connect (or connected, don't know if the extension has finally been put into service) the Uithof in Utrecht with the city center. Was there in 2011 and it was just mind-blowing: double-articulated buses every minute or so, and every single one was packed. It was a very clear sign that even more buses would not provide a solution. The SUNIJ-tram there (SUNIJ = Sneltram Utrecht-Nieuwegein-IJsselstein (sneltram = fast-tram/suburban tram), built in the 80's, is now extended (or still being extended) towards that Uithof place, the University of Utrecht area. But also other places are now trying to get the tram back: Leiden is trying, but I think it will never succeed, Groningen tries and so are other cities. Even my city has had some talks about bringing the tram back.

[@neilforbes416]

@@weeardguy In our state capital, Sydney(New South Wales), a tramway system was successfully reintroduced in the late 1980s after the original system was closed in 1961. This was, in part due to the availability of former goods lines that had fallen out of use for their original purpose but given new life as part of a tramway. In Newcastle, the tramway was already ill-fitting even when it was first installed in the 1870s or 1880s, particularly within the recognised boundaries of Newcastle itself before going out to the suburbs. As ill-fitting as it was, if it had been retained, the city could've coped and grown around it, but the tramway was abolished in 1950 after being electrified in 1923. At the beginning of this year, a new and utterly pathetic system started operating between two wrongly-named termini. A mere 2.7Km run from the eastern terminus called Newcastle Beach(the beach being a further 500-600 metres east of the terminus) that should've been named "Pacific Park" as it was right next to that park and just east of the Pacific and Scott Street intersection. The western terminus is beside an atrocious-looking newly-built railway station wrongly named Newcastle Interchange when it SHOULD'VE been called WICKHAM INTERCHANGE as it was located in the suburb of Wickham. Newcastle did have trains running all the way into a terminus on the corner of Scott and Watt Streets, with the old Wickham and Civic stations on the way through, but the NSW State Government(Liberal Party) closed the Newcastle, Civic and original Wickham stations on Xmas night, 2014 and ribbed out the tracks and overhead wires in a BLATANT ACT OF TREASON against Newcastle's near UNANIMOUS OPPOSITION to the closure!

[@herbertbasta3578]

Viele interessante Fahrzeug! Teilweise habe ich schon einige davon gesehen!!! Mit den besten Grüssen

[@JuanManuelGrijalvo]

Qué monada de cacharritos. Y qué bien funcionan todos.

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

Outstanding. Thank you for posting this.

[@keiths7494]

Fomnd memories of the cream coloured outer-suburban tram from Antwerp to Schoten in the 1960s;

[@paraghule9096]

O my god😲😲😲😲 Small baby is alive 😲😲😲 Even today's generation is of bullet and hyperloop , 😲😲😲

[@AbhinavLHB]

Fantastic coverage

[@WJack97224]

@Abhinav, Yes! I assume these are oil burner engines and the water tank is below the engine. Yes? I am so impressed with how Europeans keep thing clean; the train engine and cars are immaculate.

[@WJack97224]

@Abhinav, it is amazing that so much of the ancient trains have survived WW II.

[@christianmeynard4952]

Je ne savaient pas que les belges avaient encore ces jolis trams-trains !

[@memikell]

How I remember the tram lines in Chicago IL, USA. could get everywhere in the city on the car lines. Now< we have stinking buses nobody likes.

[@qzg7857]

Americans killed public transportation

[@Isochest]

@@qzg7857 Monopolists mainly from the Skull and Bones had a big part to play in forcing dependency on oil bribing and buying governments on the way to legislate in their favour

[@andredescheemaecker5865]

Leuk om naar te kijken, maar nu weten we nog niet wat er onder het zeildoek ligt😄

[@darkfoxxbunyip]

Ik heb het vermoeden dat het een kraan is, of tenminste het drijfwerk zonder mast.

[@edisoneladiosanchezluarte633]

ASÍ COMO ESTAS MARAVILLAS DEBERÍAN SER RESTAURADA Y VENDER EN EL MERCADO EN CASO DE LAS TRANVÍA. SON VERDADERAS RELIQUIAS QUE MUCHAS DE ELLAS ESTÁN AVANDONADAS PREFIEREN QUE OXIDEN

[@Thomas1980]

nice video👍👍👍

[@michaeldelisieux5252]

Fascinating!

[@justgetthere3595]

Love PCC cars.

[@robertodona27]

molto bello. complimenti

[@ramganapathy3298]

Are they operated using natural gas? I don't see a fireman!

[@bjrnpost4633]

The Citröen at 7:30 was quite fitting, but way newer. 😉

[@bandvitromaniaios1307]

Bjørn Post nah that DS is newer than the tram.

[@planegaper]

look at the shed in by the station, that's an old toronto street car, they must have bought it from the city lol.. remember riding on those things.. 50's maybe ? watch the black stallion and you can see one in action lol..

[@Нежелательныйочевидец]

красотища!.. в удмуртии должно было быть так же... а есть?! похерили и развалили все узкоколейки...грусть-тоска!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ZombiDidgeridoo]

Ale tabor :o

[@xyz_abc752]

世界の車窓からの紹介する鉄道が少ない。

[@leontserov6578]

Это хобби, а не работа

[@SuperThewatch]

what gauge is that?

[@ericdricot4423]

SuperThewatch Hi , one meter gauge

[@SuperThewatch]

@@ericdricot4423 I see. From far away, it looks like standard gauge. I've never seen a tram pulling freight cars before

[@eggballo4490]

Are they doing real work?🙂

[@ericdricot4423]

EGG BALLO hello no only touristic

[@eggballo4490]

@@ericdricot4423 damn.

[@johnsergei]

ART 300 sounds like a Detroit Diesel 9:06

[@ericdricot4423]

John Sergei it’s a Sherman motor

[@m4sherman834]

​@@ericdricot4423 M4 Sherman engine?

[@jebise1126]

does this still use coal or maybe oil?

[@gregoryvanderdonckt6028]

still coal fired!

[@catsbyondrepair]

Holy fuck

[@linadepasquale5595]

Nella GALLIA BELGICA piero roma