Narrow gauge railways in Central China (Chongqing and Sichuan provinces. To the best of my knowledge the Jianghe line is now closed. Part 2 is here: • China Steam 2012 - Par...
This is a superb video, very well filmed and edited. I love those Bulgarian lorry locos, and the electric loco sparking through the tunnel! Thanks for uploading.
Nice video. I went to Chongqing in summer 2012 to see these truck based narrow gauge trains, however, the operation was shut down and never resumed, now the railway is gone for good.
Very nice job of little truck video shooting. My friend and I went to see that little train in summer 2012 and it turned out that the railway had been closed permanently, we felt so sad on that.
Love the passenger train. I once rode in an old cattle car with lengthwise wooden benches, and enough boards removed from the sides for a clear view. It was like being in an Indiana Jones movie.
As far as I know, those were originally built as battery locomotives. When the batteries died, they were replaced by an overhead; Someone wrote me that they look like "soviet" narrow gauge locomotives, but I am not in a position to check on that.
Believe me they are not "Homemade": saw a video of Albanian minetrains yesterday, exactly the same model. I think it's a very old Soviet designed machine that stuck around for so long because it will still run without all the bells and whistles because it's so damn simple and tough. That's why it probably pops up everywhere as well: It's so simple almost every factory behind the Iron Curtain could produce/maintain it, hence the "crude" looks. It's like the Kalashnikov of Soviet Narrowgauge Trains i supose...
Is it just me or are some of these trains sporting some kind of camouflage? And if that's the case, why? Not all of them ofcourse, but especially the one at 07:05 looks like it is donned in camouflage.
Wouldn't want to drive/work on that loco, the short wheel base gives a hell or a rough snapping ride going around the curves, good money for a chiropractitioner.
@@KochersbergTV Thank you for an answer. Because I was seen to around 3 meters, as for the smallest radius of the curve of the Japanese railroad, 30 meters, the radius of the 1:01 curve of this animation were interesting at all.
They certainly do not realise. The area where this video was recorded is quite typical of China: the contrast between archaic agriculture and "modern" industry some of which you can see on my video. Significantly, the (illegal) colliery was closed 6 months after I was there. Too dangerous ! No wonder when you look at the overheads of the upper part of the mine. I was not wearing any helmet and the proximity of the overhead frightened me throughout. A good remembrance though.
Voltage is not very high, but still sufficient to make an "impression". Now the railway was closed (the mine as well) six months after I made this video. Not an incentive for improvements.
In the case of this particular colliery, it was deemed unsafe, even to Chinse standards. So it was closed a few months after I was there, even though I had no influence on this decision.
