Vanishing Coal Mines of Pingxi Valley youtube render.avi 

My dad's friend's grandpa used to work here, he still kept one of the carts in his garage, and his reed hat, he told me that one of the carts once fell down when they were dumping rocks, it was crushed into pieces, and the diesel were mostly sold for scraped or destroyed, the lucky ones were saved and taken to the museum or been kept in garages. My dad's friend's grandpa still has a little bit of rail in the front of the garage, and I sometimes go take a look at it.

Thanks for posting this. This was a most enjoyable vid the likes of which i don't see too often on youTube. Thanks again.

What a wonderful film. Congratulations to those who made it. It reminded me of the days when I worked underground on the haulage system of a long-closed coal mine.

Amazing to see old operations like this. Some reason, this reminds me of Minecraft mine carts. RU-vid is a cool way to preserve the past. So much I would not have been able to see, without the internet.

謝謝您的分享！讓我們追憶失去的景色！

Thanks for uploading this, fascinating stuff. Particularly liked the single-bladed points and the very basic method of unloading/re-railing the spoil wagons.

I rode this at Knott's Berry Farm! ....JKing! I enjoyed watching- thank you!

Fascinating piece of film. I remember seeing a coal barge being loaded on the banks of the Yangtze river by people carrying baskets on their backs. Filthy conditions and the entire village was covered in black dust.

People working for a living, an honest days work for a sad pittance. This documentary reminds us of our good fortune.

I like that single point switch.

Blood, sweat and tears - that is how we feel the years. Mining was never meant to be easy, that is why there is so much pride in it.

Too bad this may be the only film of the mining and the railway. Too many of us forget not everything is computers and cellphones & this wasn't all that long ago either. galvie45, thank you for posting this.

this is just amazing. its like somthing out of a movie or a theme park ride. im amazed places like this existed.

Full respect for these guys doing an excellent job under difficult circumstances! Watching them we can learn a lot about team work, motivation and the spirit to keep up. No reason to laugh at them and their primitive equipment- one day they will overtake us.

I absolutely find the gold in youtube now.

Absolutely fascinating!

Remind us that what we had before. Thank you very much for your videos

I found that really interesting. Thanks for sharing

It is just TOO cool to see a mine train in operation!! I hope this one never gets shut down!! : D

Wow really nice , thanks

These views were differently new information with a different experience to me So good.

This is astounding. As recent as 20 years ago? How could they have made any money? Thanks for this clip.

Very simple. Very effective!

A very nice and interesting movie. Thanks for uploading and thumbs up!

Great vid. Many thanks for sharing.

Klasse Doku!

Superb Video! I like it!

Very nice, like !

wow...great Doku!

Film absolutnie genialny. Ciekawe, ile razy wykoleiły się te wagoniki ;)

Just Wow!

Interesting video.

I know what it is like to work in pain and that lady in the second or third to last view was working in pain, I wonder how many times those little engines have been rebuilt or repaired. Its amazing what you can get by with when you have no choice!

Interesting video

really interesting. looks like the place is operated by a bunch of hardworking women?

very interesting video

My respect for those people, hard work but well done. I love those hats, they serve equally to the sun and water :)

Nice hats!

Interesting seeing the cable haulage. The only place you can see trains like this in the UK is in a museum, and even then none of them are running.

great stuff

Was this filmed in '10 or earlier?Incredible operation; love that neat little engine & how they manually move the railcar:0. Great job all!

State of work by human power will be studying. A treasure trove of wisdom.

This is a great video. I was wondering if the were going to run a train over the suspension bridge shown around the 40 second time stamp.

Perhaps a family operation because women were pushing coal cars along with Grandpa. Love the "Briggs and Stratton" lawnmower engine railway! Excellent doc. Looks like it rains over there 365 days per year.

look close it are mostly woman who do the hard labour, thanks for upload

Wow, that was a really hard work.

Awesome

Instead of being on welfare, they were working hard. If we in the US are not careful, all the coal mines here will be shutdown too. It already is happening in WV, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Virginia.

Looks like maybe 500mm gauge? The 0-5-0 switching looks like hard work!

Fascinating

Hard to imagine that this was the way it was in 1993! Primitive by any standards, and very sad. Hopefully, those workers are doing better today.

Nice

ESTE VIDEO ME RECUERDA LOS VIEJOS SISTEMAS EN CANANEA, SONORA MÉXICO.

Sem dúvidas...são um povo sofrido, mas... perseverantes.

Impresionante.¡¡¡

the gondolas ( open goods wagons ) look like boxes on wheels . tiny trains .:) interesting to watch the crew shove the cars (wagons ) through the switches. (points ) thanks for sharing this vanished vista.

First i thought they have helmets on... but it just agains't the rain hahaha

I grew up around coal mining in the mountains of Appslachia,Keokee Virginia,my dad worked for a Dollar a day,,,

🇧🇷 BRASIL, 07/06/2023. Essas mulheres são fortes executando esse trabalho árduo.

Ahh, '93 on 2nd watch so guessin' they've tapped it out:( So interesting!

I love the low tech ways of life.

This may seem non realistic to some, this hard of work, I assure you it is not. When I was a kid in Houston, Texas I remember unloading lumber from boxcars on a siding. They were unloaded by hand, separated and stacked by hand and had to be covered with tarps at the end of the day. Try to imagine how many pieces of lumber were in a 60' long box car. If there were 6-8 kids we could do it in a day for $4. each and nobody was over 14 y.o./ Or how many shovels of sand does it take to make 15-16 tons of sand? but there were kids lined up on top of a long pile of sand where it was dredged out of The San Jacinto River as long as the dump truck shoveling sand until the truck was full then wait on another truck. $5. a day. Were we crazy? Hell no we could go buy a new pair of shoes for $6.95 at Thom McCanns ( all the same price) We could buy a pair of button fly Levis for $1.99 or even a pair of Tony Llama cowboy boots from $9-$11. We were like the "elite" at school because we had money for a Delaware Punch and a Baby Ruth candy bar. (about .17) We could go to a double or triple treat at the movie theater popcorn soda and milk dubs and still have change left for $2.00. Seems like people were so satisfied, happy and peaceful then.

it's so traditional technique

it does make me curious as to whatever happened to the railway lines cars & locos

...the Bowes Ry. is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, or, in layman's terms, a museum--albeit an operating one.

what did they dump in the river? was that coal? or was it just dirt? Thanks, Nice film

Very eco friendly

😊 Top 👍

Very job

I don't suppose you happened to measure up any of the rolling stock?

O novo material do futuro metro da Trofa!

面白い映像ですね🎵(⌒‐⌒)

Ok this is so cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolol

Safety steel capped boots - check! Safety conical straw hat - check! Hi-viz shawl (colour optional) - check! Signal & points man -check! Length of timber to tip wagons over edge with spoil - check! Loop of steel hawser to make sure wagon doesn't fall down slope - check! The thing is, that there weren't that many workers - even though they all worked at a steady pace, without obvious instruction, just getting on with the job. Collectively they weren't really terribly productive - maybe each wagon held 2 cubic yards of what looked like fairly low grade coal, and there was only one line to the main rail station with its big coal wagon - so I guess that they were filling up 1 large wagon every 4 - 6 hours, maybe? A small coal fired power station needs probably 20 of those wagons each day, enough to heat & light maybe 200,000 homes (I did a bit of Googling for those figures, so if they are wrong, my apologies), so I'm not entirely surprised the mines were considered uneconomic & closed.

Wow...looks closer to 1893 than 1993. How could the extraction cost compare to the great open cut mines of Australia etc.? No wonder they closed. Still, as filthy and dangerous as it looks, still better fro the environment than the vast open cut mines. Wouldn't want to work there though. Great film. Thanks.

It's like going back 100 years in America when only progress mattered.

哇 快三十年了呀

9:18 0:01 good song🥺Like Celtic music

Physical labour, they are sitting on at kart machines are doing most the work

The title of this video is like a meme title from today but it's a real one from 10 years ago :'}

Fascinating! Looks like hard work just rounding up the coal cars but I'm quite sure there's plenty more misery deep inside the coal mines themselves. With these little mom & pop coal operations, one can readily see the difficulty the Chinese government faces weening their countrymen off of coal.

因為周偉航轉了這影片，跑來看看

Ja piernicze to w Tajlandii kobity nawet wagony kolejowe przewracają ! ale zapiernicz konkretny ...

Manual Labor at it finest.

co-ul? Is it a 2 sylablle word now?

The coal mine wasn't that bad for it's time. They did have Diesel Locks, rails and countless machines from the transporter to train and sort Station. Even the deposit area was Close and environmental didn't seemed to be that hard. I just want to add that the most mines in the World are today less developed especially foreign Gold are Charcoal mines. When they are not runed from gvt's or big companys. Another thing to add the mens did work in the mine . The Womens outside both of them did a hard job.

Interesting film. The equipment they're using looks very old and out of date.

this is a vision of hell. I'd last a day or two.

What year was the filming??

Hard work but a life.

what are they throwing down the mountain at 4:21?

まさに簡便を絵に描いた様な世界ですね

Loved the 90s. Why did all the mines close?

The river into which the tailings were dumped (5:11) looks severely polluted. One hopes nature has managed to clean it up since the mining has ceased.

can you see any uk females doing that sort of work DONT THINK SO !

I wanna ride one..

Norfolk Southern/CSX/BNSF would all have a good laugh at that tiny railroad

Too bad it wasn’t narrated and offered info about the track system? Anyone know what gauge the tracks were? How many people worked there at its peak? I bet everyone gets the day off when there is a sunny day!

I`m lucky to be a Swede.

meio sofrido o negocio ai!