A Watson 16E 4-6-2 locomotive built in Germany in 1935 to the tune of R16000.00 for each of the 6 locomotives.(2024.09.28-NgoMgqibelo-19:13-socalled South Africa)
A tribute to SA engineers to do this on Cape Gauge. I think the only parallel is in Queensland Australia. The Japanese and Taiwanese are using Standard Gauge track instead for HSR.
South Africa can lead the world but only if the criminals step back from Government. Club Narcissist needs to end by ordinary people turning their back on central government
Uitstekend gedoen Les Pivnic.!! Geniet dit ekstra baie, want Firma se eers weermag. Kelner op Trans Karoo vir 3 maande,en n maand op DF Malan lughawe. Lekker tye gewees.!!
I do despair for humanity. The Judaeo Christian Culture I was brought up in does value science technology and being responsible and a good citizen. Globalists are destroying this through Islam and other Cults like BLM. Stay true to your culture and don't let the Globalists win.
Les, thanks for fantastic videos. Coming from the old steam environment I tried to share these videos with the younger generation in my family who were deprived of the steam experience. Do you have copyright on your videos or is permissible to use a portion of a video and to add for instance a specific song or music just to add to a specific atmosphere. Regards. Chris.
If African people, the buying force of SA, were included...the train would have been viable. It's true, (white) people in South Africa are not public transport orientated, except those of them who are the poor and sensible to share public transport, and obviously Africans who have since and always been accommodative....
When I was a kid, we were friends with the Station Master of Sarnia station near Pinetown, KZN. I often saw him do double arm token exchanges on Express electric units. Occasionally a steam unit came through. I remember on a few occasions travelling from Dbn to Park Rynie pulled by a steam loco. My dad always told us never to look out of the windows facing the unit because you get soot and coal dust in your eyes, we always did and we always got soot and dust in our eyes. LOLS Good memories.
Al die Wes-Rand treinstasies is verwoes en geplunder…geen treine loop meer hier nie.Luipaardsvlei,Witpoortjie,Princess.Roodepoort,Horison,Hamberg,Florida.Alles verwoes.😡
This just popped up in my recommendation feed and brought back some great memories. I was on this tour, my second trip to SA, which was not that easy in those days with the sanctions still in place (I ended having to fly from Oz to Jo'burg via Singapore and London Must have been mad 😂. It's all gone now, the marvellous collection of locomotives, the historic rolling stock and the entire opportunity of being able to do it again. Thanks for the memories...
@@lespivnic Sorry. I didn't mean it as a joke. South Africa seems to be being destroyed from within by criminals at all levels. We have heard here (UK) about André de Ruyter former Eskom CEO who criminals tried to murder. It sounds like a total disaster in every way!
@@lespivnic Sorry. I don't want to ridicule anything about South Africa it's people or railways. I visited in 1994 and admired South Africa as a country that had an excellent railway system. It reflected the values of the European settlers building the country up. I have every respect for the Indigenous Black and Mixed Race people too whom I met and hoped their country would become a High Income country for all. They all valued education. South Africa has this potential. As usual Politicians let us down.
Rare klas 16E. Daar het in middel 1970's een op Paardeneiland gestaan terwyl ek daar prakties gedoen het. Ek het dit egter nooit sien loop nie. Pragtige video!
Hi Les, awesome video, I'm so glad you were able to capture it! I wanted to ask, would it be possible for me to use snippets of your video for a RU-vid video that I'm making? I would obviously credit you. :) The video is about the MetroBlitz.
@@lespivnic Here's a link to the video, I credited you for the footage, and linked your channel in the description. Many thanks! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sZSWHAw1kOM.html
DAMN that old lady is sure lifting her skirts as she jogs along in front of that passenger train What a sight So beautiful My driver was Oom Andries Linnow I fired to him regular Wish those days were still here
