Quite fascinating !! Wonder if anyone has modeled this in HO or other. I'm sure those Taiwanese Shays are American made...American Shays are almost twice their size, though...
I think you'll find that American Shays were built to suit the gauge they were meant or built to be run upon, There are the remains of an American built Shay at the Illawarra Light Railway Society that was designed for forestry work on 30 inch gauge which is about half the size of the 3 foot and 3'6" gauge locomotives commonly seen in Colorado and other states of the USA in the past.
Японци такие любили, машина как правило трехцилиндровая видимо судовая угловые передачи конические прямозубые открытого типа, видел даже вариант что кардан приводил в движение и оси тендера паровоза
This is my type of video, trains in the Far East, Steam and the local women are nice!! Ok English man with Chinese wife of course. Thank you for sharing with us. David.
Andy and Dandan Fisher Too bad,the coal mine train abandoned around 1996 and the sugarcane train(railway lines of Ciao-Tou Sugar Refinery) abandoned at February 1999.
@@the_retag Not IME. Target of Shays was lightly laid track with tight-radius turns and steep grades, besides seeding clouds with lots of soot. j/k, seems the designers were not aware of importance of secondary air to combustion efficiency.
@@the_retag Combustion efficiency pretty obviously held no attraction, so they ignored it. Basic physics: gradients require tractive effort for zero speed, where, on the level, low tractive effort can move/accelerate train. A good reason why Shays have all wheels driven, which few rod-drive engines do. Articulation of Shays was a big help for tractive effort on hilly, twisty, light rails. Speed- no.
Taiwan HSR and High tech ca 2000-2005.=) Filmed w DV format introduced for massproduction at start of 2000-s. Model autos same time. Alishan province TW. It's NOT coal mine railway. Its so called Forest railway notable used for pax and sugar factory ops. See at this in 2008 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C9500mQlnv4.html