China's Last Little Train | Free Documentary 

A small gem in the land of megaprojects, megastructures, mega trains and mega cities still exists: the narrow gauge train of Jiayang valley. Little Train tells the story of the last working narrow gauge steam railway in China. Enjoy everyone watching!

Gem of a documentary. Glad the steam train will continue its journeys with the support from tourism. Thanks to all who make this documentary.

Director, researcher & camera crew deserve an Oscar for such an amazing, thoughtful and historic documentary. The colours, the location, the stories within this story, the shear beauty of sequence is just a masterpiece ❣️ Thank you for making this 🎉

Also as a retired machinist-mechanic-welder, I love the idea of the locomotives being slowly made over with spare parts... but somehow being the same train... that's how it is with animals, too! Hey, not everything has to be shiny and full of software!

This is the perfect travel documentary. It takes an in depth look at every aspect of one unique site; an old steam locomotive going up into the mountains. By following the footsteps of a seller of vegetables into the market, anyone who has grown a garden can relate. This documentary captures the young (a school girl walking on the tracks from school) to the old (an old man who helped build the train through the Chinese cultural revolution. Great realistic scenes of everyday life mix with beautiful settings and great photography to capture every aspect of the culture and the people. This captures food (in a bird hanging over a fire), unique medicine (cupping), religion (burning money), holidays, markets and even the story of animals (this little piggy went to market). Small details like the price of a ticket, or the cost of vegetables, allows one to fill in the economic landscape, while well captured simple economic activity (making a bolt), or entering the room of a engineer washing up in his room show how things are done differently.This video was obviously shot by someone with local connections into the community and edited by someone with a unique understanding of what would fascinate outsiders. Great job!

This is such a beautiful documentary. Not only it introduces the little train, but it weaves lives of the ordinary little people into the story. Great! Love it.

Traveling in this train and crisscrossing beautiful sceneries along its route is something straight from a fairy tale story. I wish someday I can make a trip along that route with this small train...

I appreciate the hard work you put in all of yours videos. Thank you for making such knowledgeable,informative and beautiful documentaries.

what a lovely documentary, as an overseas Chinese who grew up in Europe I always particularly enjoy watching such documentaries about China's rural areas and their lives. Thank you for this @Free Documentary. This somehow also reminded me of all the Chinese ''coolies'' who were an essential but perhaps far to less acknowledged labourforce for the US transcontinental railroad. Something you may not know is that the term ''coolie'' sounds like the Chinese term 苦力 (ku-li). (Ku) - meaning; bitter or painful. And (Li) - meaning strength. Although maybe a stereotype, I do believe the Chinese are extremely diligent workers.

“Go to work with joy and return in good health” Perfect 👍

A superb glimpse into rural Sichuan Province. I was there once, long ago, visiting the small village of a student to whom I had taught English. This looks about the same as I viewed then, but I am sure the urban areas have changed a lot. We traveled not by train, but rather by a huge truck. If only China existed now as was back then... If only America existed as it was back then!

Love to see Narrow Gauge trains in Asia. Old gal still going on strong even after all these years. It really shows how we Asians can live with little and be content with life. Be happy as long as we know the future generations can live a better life with hardwork.

It was shot in 2000 and became a tourist attraction after 2010. Villagers have buses

Absolutely loved this, many thanks for posting.

Very informative! Thank you for sharing here so that many can watch! Great travel documentary!

What a fantastic documentary about a small part of our planet that hasn't changed. Lovely people, lovely trains. Amazing video.

Beautiful. We too have toy train here in Darjeeling 🌼🤘

Beautiful. I would love to visit some day. I'm so happy it's not just us brits that Cherish Steam railways. I wish the little train a long and happy future.👍🚂🚂🚂

You deserve a Oscar for documentaries

Nice one! Thanks :)

When was this recorded ? Edit:Found out this railway was preserved and I’m so glad it’s still running and serving the community!

Any steam engineer or fireman that ever stood on a footplate has cooked a fine dinner on their engine. I'm told my grandfather could make a killer pot roast.

Wow! What a gem of a doc!! If this is free on YT, then it is very effective. Will like and subscribe and look at your offerings. Thank you for quality. Thank you for sensitive insight.

I'm a village r myself..I love to see village life wherever it appears...Thanks for the vedio...You narrate nice

Wow this is Amazing! thank you for sharing china with me. I’m from Southern California USA, and the documentary’s have allowed me to see the world. Thank you.

Thank you very much!

Great documentary! Love it.

Having worked and traveled 12 years in China, this is a GREAT video!

The colour, the location is amazing. Thanks for making this video🎉🎉

What a lovely little documentary!

Amazing documentary! Thanks

Exceptional video!

Quality of these videos are really something else.

documentário lindo, amei ... meu sonho é ir para a china... obrigada por compartilhar coisas tão lindas

wow !! Very interesting 👍🏻👍🏻

Beautiful little railroad. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks!

Great, Thanks

What a wonderful little railway! It's nice to see that even in China railways are preserved by its community!

A piece of history. Amazing landscapes.

Romantikus, hangulatos videó! :)

Wonderful video. We have some narrow gauge trains still left in India. Some runs on steam, but many are converter to diesel.

Great documentary. Thanks for bringing us this part of China.

Thanks for sharing!

I love ❤ this sharing with my social media platforms.

Really beautifully made documentary. What a magical and fascinating place.

Really enjoyed this, Reminds me of stories my Great Grandmother use to tell

Wow A beautifully done documentary! I spent two months traveling in China, and yet this documentary highlighted lots of unique things that even I had not seen. Sorta wish I made a side trip to go see it.

picturesque view, gentle and soft voice, nicely writen scripts with touch of humor make it a successful document video

What a fantastic film and story. This is the China I so much wish to visit and explore.

Beautiful!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Thanks a lot!,

Great doco ,thank you.

Thanks for the Informative Video on the little train a great insight to different parts of life in China.

Really excellent photography. 'Disappointing' is as polite as I can be about the commentary.

In his book 'transcontinental Train Odyssey' (2004), former Deputy PM Tim Fischer wrote in the China travel section that he asked the assigned guide about the China steam train on the side rail-line. This 'yes-man' guide informed "There are no steam trains in China", as recalled in his excellent book. This jolly train -lifeline reminds me of Kuranda Scenic Railway in Cairns, Australia. Thank you for enlightening me.

I love this RU-vid channel

The train passes that beautiful scenery yellow flowers greenery

Didn't think I'd watch a whole doco on a lil steam train but here we are.

😍❤️love this episode

Amazing video, Thank You

very nice and informative documentary

A really beautiful documentary.

Very beautiful and nostalgic.

This is one of the best documentaries that I've ever seen. I so much enjoyed every bit of it.

What a beautiful and powerful film!

There is one of these in Romania as well! You can find it in the Maramureș region.

Imagine seeing your mother died in front of you because of hunger. Thats so heartbreaking.

beautiful

Are there other documentaries with the same narrator? I struggle with insomnia this video puts me to sleep every time I play it.

wholesome doc !!

This is so amazing! I hope they get more carriages less space and a cage carriages for the pigs and many more.. God Bless The Small Trains Of China...

I didn’t want it to end…

fantastic and beautiful documentary! Just feel sorry for the pigs...

This is beautiful😍

Fascinating insight into rural China. I think the video is more than 1O years old so I doubt it is the same today.

Nice to see mega projects didn`t take over this 'small gem' in China. This wonderful documentary -- 'Last Little Train' -- tells the stories of the hardworking, humble people who live in the Chinese countryside. Yea, 'Last Little Train' built to last!!

I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Thrilling documentary, good insight into Chinese culture and how China has evolved in comparison to today china. Chinese are a lovely people full of life in whatever form.

What an amazing documentary

an amazing little train...reminds me of Lal Ratty we have in the Lake District....

Beautiful place, I would love to live there ...

4.9.2022.Very good and best.

We went on this Railway 4 times in 2017 as My Chinese wife has her home town 50 miles away. On our second visit and journey a round trip. We got invited to have lunch with the crew... Who then charged us money for the pleasure. 15 Yuan just under a pound. I would have given 4 times that for the invite. We spent a whole day up at the end station and the Museum Town. Did the journey 14 years ago with my Father in law with us. Back then the museum town still produced coal and trains of the trucks would rattle down the valleys'. Wonderful memories. David and Lily England.

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This is so cool

Very nice documentary. People in this area love this train . I hope don’t lose it but in the temple of profit unfortunately it will replace by buses …

Good

This is AMAZING, that this beautiful Steam Train line still exists! Thank God it has been saved. We humans so easily discard the past history all over the world. We did it in the USA in the 50's. Steam died. This is like a dream.

a very simple living and peaceful community

WOW. this looks like a paradise. no thrash no litter

we in the west have no idea how some people survive in places like this...

Beautiful place 😊

Love you China's From beijing city china!!🌋🌋🌋

OMG the mahjong table!! 💯💯💯

We have a few narrow gauge trains and tracks still used in România. They are now used exclusively for touristic purposes and most of them replaced the steam locomotives to more efficient diesel ones. Although there are still some steam ones used.

I have been fortunate tospend decades traveling in China on vacations of 6 weeks or more and have been to many ancient villages in many places, drank water from a well dig before Christ was born, seen trees still living thousand years old, traveled purposely on the old slow trains because I love them. The 4 person a/c cars are great everywhere and I have acquired some incredible pictures as well and made dozens of friends that are like family. The last 4 years have been hurtful because of company, and business, Covid and ill workers so I am still waiting to go again to see all my great friends. Wechat is always a good link to see children grow and videos and pictures by the hundreds as well but it is not like being there with the great people that noone in government knows of or deals with. This train & life video has been one of the most rewarding documentary I have seen in all my travels. Everything about it was magical almost a dream to see. I was in Nanchang, Jiangxi when I felt a tremor that far away from Wenchuan when it harmed so many of these villagers and immediately went to the Bank of China there to put cash into the big jar by the hundreds of Yuan I had available. People thought it was a scene from a movie being made as I knew what that money would mean to the hopeless people that had their lives changed forever. This video helped some hunger I has not had being in China for so long and I am extremely thankful to the people who made this possible. They fed my soul and made me happy in all the trouble here in America right now with a bum president. When one of mr dear friends I mt years ago in Shanghai invited me to Yunyang and accepted me as her brother amongst her family I had a family again now on that day and still calls me brother Ray. She has a lovely daughter now that is a twin of her and I look forward to handing her the heaviest red envelope she will ever see after 4 1/2 years not seeing her. Again I thank the people who created this wonderful experience and I sent a link to 2 of my friends who live in that same province as well of the little train. I will love to pet one of those pigs before its demise as well. I will enjoy that train for sure one day. Ray C. Florida

Great content, any videos of the mosuo tribe? 👍👍

it is not new for me but i saw and travel when i was of child hood i mean stem engine train

Such a cute smoll train boi, I love it! XD I would love to ride this train, it might not be comfortable, but it's so adorable and fairy-taily! Also... the landscapes are so pretty and rustic ISTG it looks like some described in my MXTX danmei novels 😭😭😭

21:40 this is pure countryside feeling

There is a DVD of this little engine when the pits it served where still working it's available from rob Dickinson hope that this helps some of you