Videos like this can never be long enough ! Thank you for keeping it perfect by not featuring yourself. Or talking endlessly or adding music. less is more ! Perfect as it is !
The subject is terrific of course, but the photography/cinematography....... composition of shots, use of angles, colours, background are all exquisite.
True, channel name and video watermark looking like a cheap low grade channel that poorly edits together clips of everyone else’s videos, but ended up proving otherwise. Pleasant surprise.
Fascinating to watch und hear the sounds of old style raw power straining to haul product from source to end user can only imagine the workshops keeping them working the silluettes r amazing thanku Jimmy Dean
Awesome spark show to bad they didn’t have some pieces of copper and aluminum wire to put in the firebox when working that engine to give it some more colors
11:54 What is coming out of the smokestack? All of those flammable particles in a coal mine. Before you know it, it becomes a new Centralia - Pennsylvania, USA.
May I use some Parts of this in a Video about the Function of Steam Locomotives? I want to point out the Importance of a Spark Arrestor. Of course I will place a Link to your Video here and also recomend watching it.
always fabulous to see these clips at night. Can anyone tell me though exactly why these engines s[ew out so many sparks? I ve only ever seen a few sparks at night in Australia in the old days. Is it just because they are being thrashed uphill? I'd really love to know.
The following is my hypothesis, and I would like to point out that it may differ from established facts. In fact, the image sensor of cameras are different from the human eye. Digital cameras are capable of capturing a wider range of light wavelengths than the human eye can. In other words, humans cannot see UV or IR light, but especially the image sensor of a digital camera react strongly to IR light, just as photographic film reacts to X-rays. These sparks are generated when a lot of particle is mixed with the coal fed into the boiler and the hot particle (contains after burning) ignite and blow up all at once. This means that you may not be able to see such spectacular sparks if you are observing near this Chinese line. In addition, I used newer, more sensitive camera possible to shoot these scene. However, the my naked eye could see the strong light clearly , as if the entire smoke is emitting light. When my editing the timelines, the brightness of the whole image was slightly enhanced, but it should be noted that no correction was made to intentionally emphasize only the smoke, as I tried to make the image look natural and I felt as a whole. In addition , because there are few houses and forests along this railroad, there is no problem of fire spreading, so it seems that coal powder without commercial value, is used to locomotives. Typically , the locomotives are equipped with filters to prevent fire spreading, but there is still a possibility that the filters are not working properly for some reason, such as , to prevent power restlict.
what is the cause of this huge cloud of sparks sure the locos drove uphill but what me intressts is is it a technical thing on the locos what in cobination with uphill driving produce this sparkly show ?
This Spark Show is something that the engineer does on purpose....it isn't always shooting sparks ! When the sparks fly...it's called "A Spark-Out" and it cleans the exhaust of ash ! Some call it "An ASH-OUT" ! Done every few hours of running.
>Fahren die mit Kohlenstaub? Ja, Eine Menge Pulver, das nicht zu einem Produkt wird, wird gemischt. >warum glüht das Abgas der Lok im Dunkel so sehr? Das ist meine Hypothese. Im Allgemeinen reagiert der Bildsensor der Kamera empfindlich auf Infrarotstrahlen. Sie können dies überprüfen, indem Sie das LED-Licht der Infrarot-Fernbedienung überprüfen, mit der die Lichtemission nicht mit bloßem Auge erfasst werden kann. Pulverisierte Kohle, die bei hoher Temperatur verbrannt wird, ist wahrscheinlich eine starke Lichtquelle für die Kamera. Es besteht jedoch kein Zweifel, dass es auch mit bloßem Auge recht hell ist.
Wait in china they still use steam trains to pull the coal , I guess it makes scene no shortage of fuel , but seams kind of strange of a country that likes to reverse engineer tech and make there own. dose that mean they produce new steam engines ? Watching this i can almost smell the burning coal .
@@treyjordan3168 Thanks for the information as I am not conversant with trains here in Malta we do not have trains only buses:-) Malta is only 20 miles by 8 miles.during British colonial times the British installed a small train in 1883 which stopped working in 1931 as it was loosing money all the time!!!!
I've heard that there was originally a part works like a filter to prevent those sparks spread out, but the train is really too old. the original factory has already stop made those parts decades ago. there is no forest around the rail so they don't have to worry about those sparks may cause a forest fire. so after last filter get out of service. they just removed it.
The sparks appear when the engine is run at its limit: The steam exhaust is acting as a induced draught pump, sucking air through the grate and boiler tubes. Thus, the more steam the engine uses, the more air is drawn through the fire. In normal mode, steam is let into the cylinder only at the beginning of each piston stroke. Then it is cut off and the steam is expanding while the piston is moving through the cylinder, which means steam pressure on the piston decreases along the way. If the load is heavy, the pistons have to be fed with fresh boiler pressure steam most of their way through the cylinder. In this case, at the end of the stroke steam is released into the exhaust with close to full boiler pressure. Apart from poor exploiting the energy contained in the steam ,this causes too much air draught through the fire, blowing particles out the chimney before they are fully burned. Running a steam engine at its limit is a waste of energy, but what a great sound and light show!
From 8:00 on, I have the Reaver's theme playing in my head as background. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PcUFemEg5pw.html "Running without core containment... that's suicide!"
I enjoy watching steam locomotives but I've never seen one shower sparks like this. Really poor maintenance and/or firing technique or fuel. It's spectacular but all that heat is wasted. Poor engine!
Id say they turn the blower on full blast to clean out the fire box, and the temp there is cold enough they probably have problems with everything freezing up. coal isn't like wood its a bit hard to get burning
Could purely for show. They know tourists/ photographers are around. I've heard crews burn saw dust to create this kind of effect. I've even seen them open drain cock or blow down valve for similar visual drama. Look much nicer on photographs that way.
Much as I love steam trains, and heritage railways pollute very minimally, I have to add that China produces almost a third of the world's CO2, twice as much as the USA, in absolute terms - not per capita. China has increased her coal production 4x since the 80s, and doubled since 2004! to 4,000m tons, way above the static 1,000m tons of Oz, USA, Indonesia and India.
Their motto is development at any cost. Even if it means burning their house along with ours. They care less or don’t care at all. If you visit China or interact with a fresh off the boat Chinese in your neighborhood, you’d realize that. I feel sorry for that Magnificat piece of engine which could have been managed better and all that lost heat / energy which could have been optimized
However, God is fair to every individual because humans are equal I believe (-if there's a God. ) Co2 emission is a crime, Each American/Canadian/Australian---almost 3 times higher than that of Chinese would face death penalty while Chinese 20yrs in prison,
