Guest Steam Video Clip

We need more clips and more contributors, the stock is VERY low and much of it is ours!

Every week or so (when I am based in Beijing) I will load up a 320 x 240 video clip (normally 'wmv' format, 1 to 3Mb file size; sorry if your browser won't play it, but it's the quickest and easiest thing for me and most others to do). Click the image to play the video. If your browser refuses to play it then you my have to "enable active content" for this page. But perhaps you would be better to right click and choose to save the file which will help us on bandwidth costs so you don't have to revisit to see it again and is more or less essential if you have a dial up connection. If you have a suitable clip of your own of 'real steam', (steam locomotive or stationary steam engine) then please email me as below (it's not a link, you have to type it), similarly if you have any comments:

I get very little feedback but this section has registered over 23000 'hits' in the year since inception in mid-March 2007 (64 a day on average). More contributors would be very welcome, if not you may get tired of a diet of my and one or two other people's favourites.

It doesn't take long browsing to discover that most of the steam clips (other than those which are part of a commercial site) available on the web constitute an abuse of technology. But if you know any exceptions, I will be happy to link to them. But these are likely to be of interest to readers of this page.

Our own clips on this page are normally taken from present and future ISV DVDs. These are properly researched quality documentary films with a story to tell.
'National Geographic Stuff' said one purchaser.

We also offer industrial archaeology compilation DVDs from our travels to steam powered mills in Asia.

This is the third and last of unsung steam heroes from our visit to Jalainur in November 2007 (RD 9th May 2008):

This is the Dampschiff Schönbrunn (built by DDSG, Budapest in 1912) meeting ÖBB 4-6-2T 77.28 (Built by Krauss, Linz in 1920) with a branch line train, on the Danube near Persenbeug in 2007. Both of these steam assets are operated by ÖGEG.(Christopher Cairns, 24th April 2008)

Serbia, top and tailed UNRRA type Davenport 0-8-0s at Kostolac during an Enthusiast Holidays (http://www.enthusiasthols.com/) tour, thanks to organiser Vic Allen for this one (16th April 2008).

Coal loading and setting out from the coal seam at the bottom of the big pit at Jalainur in November 2007 (RD, 9th April 2008):

25NC #3503 passes Modderriver with a De Aar- Kimberley goods in July 1983 (RM, 30th March 2008).

This is the fifth of 6 clips from my 1992 Pakistan visit. Jumping on my bike from one of my previous shots, there was just enough time to make it to the south end of the station area for the departure as there was always a long stop here for a loco change (RD 21st March 2008).

For a change this clip is as hot-from-press as it can get, Shibanxi Gold recorded in mid-March 2008 during a flying visit to our favourite narrow gauge line (RD 15th March 2008):

To complete the Indian trilogy, it's not steam I know but the trams of Calcutta are priceless and they are running out of time. This sequence was shot between Tollygunge and Ballygunge in the south of the city (February 2008 RD, 10th March 2008):

A fabulous discovery in January 2008 in Calcutta was a set of steam hammers working in small steel foundries. This brief clip does not do total justice to the scene and the atmosphere (2nd March 2008, RD):

Click below for the archived clips, the latest addition is noted after each entry, if a page gets too big, I will subdivide again: