Fairy tale stuff, remarkable coverage, and the brave heart, cute little locomotive, still going great guns. Old George Stephenson would sure be proud. :)
The can't bacsuse, then people would see porrer side of China (not Shanghai, not Pekin, not Chongquing) and communist propaganda says, that there aren't poor people in communist country and everybody is reach there. Greetings from Poland
@Ancient Link no you wouldn't. I've been to china 8 or 9 times by now and something like pointing out a mistake is shunned upon but not something you would be sent to jail for. they don't like you being in other people's business. I'm sure the engineers would appreciate the information though. china is not as brainwashed as it used to be and minor things like pointing out mistakes only gets you some bad looks.
@@bellowphone I ain't no expert, but I believe that the chuffing should be every quarter of a revolution, with every release of pressure from the pistons.
I was in California one time and we stopped at this restaurant. On the menu they had El Camino Chicken and Santa Fe Chicken. I figured Santa Fe Chicken had been run over by a train whereas El Camino Chicken had been run over by a car...
As far as I know there is only one place in China where this kind of narrow track train is still partially working: the railway between Yunnan province and Vietnam which was built by French when Vietnam was their colony. I don't know exactly how well it is running now but I think it's largely as a local cargo transportation.
Usually the proper way would have an ashpan on the bottom of the firebox and after a day of work or so it would be cleaned out at the engine servicing facility (roundhouse, shed, shop etc). Guess it doesn't have an ashpan, or it is too small for the amount of cinders that that lower grade coal makes.
It's nice to see steam engines still in use, not just taken out once a year to show tourists. The USA keeps a strategic oil reserve in case of emergencies. I think the USA and other countries should build modern steam powered engines for emergencies. If there is ever a crisis, war, or whatever causing massive oil shortages, having steam engines to ship things around the country would help save the economy and prevent starvation in areas that don't grow their own food. Plus they could ship soldiers and equipment around.
that's a really bad idea. the americans use primarily diesel-electric locomotives, which among other things, are extraordinarily fuel-efficient. fuel is no problem for diesel-electric locomotives. however, it's a huge problem for steam engines. think about it; a diesel-electric can carry a 5-mile-long chain of cargo from one city to another using just a tank of gas, however, steam engines would typically have trouble carrying a 500 metre long chain of cargo on a full tender. also, coal is quite environmentally unfriendly. the gases given off by coal are extremely dirty. you could theoretically develop a supercritical boiler model, but such a project would be expensive and likely extremely dangerous. so, the answer is no. the only reason steam is still in use AT ALL is because it's dirt cheap.
2:36 Le abre el paso de vapor del inyector de agua para que lo filmen, luego los purgadores de cilindro para completar el efecto . Muy lindo.Soy ex foguista de locomotoras baldwin a vapor. Beautiful!!
I can see it, back up a ways, then come forward slowly while you blow-down the sediment from the boiler in a designated area before stopping for passengers.
Excellent photography and video. Real show of village life. Beautiful scenery of hills and farms. Nice small smart steam engine. But why they make drive wheels so small?To increase efficiency of engine size of drive wheels shall be suitably large. Anyway thanks.
I'm looking forward to seeing one of these on the Rheilfordd Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales. (They are re-gauging one to run on two-foot gauge.)
This is wonderful! I wish I had a lot of money and time (and of course permission) to rebuild all the different little railroads like this all over China! This is a great way to get around! I would sure clean up the coal burners so the towns and areas would be cleaner. These little trains create a home like feel that I think is mostly lost in the US! I hope to get to see one of these before they are lost forever! You folks really do trains very good there! Anyway, thanks for sharing! Very nice!
KA-BOOOOM!!! - 1:11 I guess rationale behind those little drivers is to deliver *more torque?* - 3:37 Guess that's why they call it *"playing chicken???* LOL - 5:08
The train at 3:37 with the little wheels would actually have lower torque. But with many wheels, there would be more traction. Suspect that they would rather have 4 pairs of large wheels, but due to space limitations, they went for small wheels because they needed the contact patch area for enough traction to handle the design load and grade.
@@johncochran8497 Sounds good to me... I see what you mean about smaller drivers vis-a-vis torque. Still, I've always noticed passenger steam locomotives have bigger drivers, while freight locomotives have smaller drivers - why is that?
@@JungleYT Think about the loads they need to carry and the speeds they need to travel at. Passenger trains are fairly small, but they want to be fast. A larger wheel for a given "strokes per minute" from the pistons will be faster than a smaller wheel. So less wear and tear on the bearings and greater speed. But a freight train handles a large heavy load, requiring a lot of traction. Hence, more wheels to provide the desired contact patch size for the desired traction. One additional thing about steam locomotive engines. They have "constant torque". What that means is that the available horsepower goes up without limit as long as enough steam is available to maintain pressure. So if a steam locomotive is able to get the load moving, it can in theory get the load moving at any desired upper speed limit. In contrast, an electric motor used in electric, or diesel electric engines have "constant horsepower". Basically, their torque is at it's greatest when just starting out and as they go faster, the available torque decreases. So they can get quite heavy loads moving from a stand still, but they have a limited upper speed due to the decreasing available torque.
the last narrow guage rail road tourist attaction in Pa shut down not long ago in Orbisona...depressing as hell...its like a long forgotten ghost area now...tracks are over grown and all.
For an steam engine to work you only need something to burn and water. Thats it. On places like these an steam engine is the best thing for the job. Altrough im wonderring how the boiler doesent explode when i look at this thing
smaller more numerous wheels means more pulling power, means they can haul heavier loads easier, but they're slower overall. Bigger fewer drive wheels are made for going fast but pulling mostly short passenger trains, sort of like the difference between a race horse and a cart mule these little locos are narrow gauge coal and rock haulers, cart mules of the train world.
+Brett Cheeseman Valve timing is way off on one side - it should have four evenly spaced "beats" for each revolution of the driving wheels, but with the timing off it sounds syncopated. It could be a worn slide valve on one side of one of the cylinders.
I'm wondering how anyone on the train survived that trip though the tunnel? Fireman for ten, assistant engineer for five, engineer for ten, dead at fifty!
That’s true, but how is that relevant to this video? Neither Ringo nor Thomas were even in this video. It would be really interesting if they were though.
1:45 Wow is that normal? Sorry but I'm new to this locomotive stuff. I find these machines fascinating for some reason, and someday I'd like to see one in real life.
