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Steam videos on the world wide web? Quite a few these days, you can readily
check out a
small sample on this site. Like it or loathe it, YouTube (and its imitators)
is here to stay and
like all those internet 'Free lunches' it is not always very digestible. Anarchic would be my best description of
YouTube, most fans of it would
probably not want it otherwise, but it makes it very difficult and frustrating to find gems
among the dross. Please submit suitable items (not China, please!) for inclusion
here. My initial intention is that this
page should highlight unusual items rather than seek out top quality video
action, since many 'overseas steam' videos are posted by non-enthusiasts with
toy camcorders. Latterly, quite a lot of vintage cine has begun to appear, this
is excellent news. To be honest because
my access to YouTube depended on my being in Beijing and the vagaries of the
Great Chinese Firewall (as of July 2009 the Chinese had been sulking after they took offence at one particular video out of what
must be millions posted), I haven't had time to watch every one here, if you
spot some real crap, tell me and I'll delete it. But please add a few good links
of your own to replace them. Thanks.
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Click here for some sample clips
on YouTube from
our own DVDs
on narrow gauge steam
and
stationary steam engines.
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Essential Viewing:
Udaipur, India (added 6th June 2011) -
Veiled in Vapour, YP 2662's Last Run on 86 Down to Udaipur in 1996, on no
account miss this one, it is a tear jerker...
General
This account does what it says on the box (added 10th July 2012), I have
added specific links elsewhere:
This account has thousands of fascinating
international new items - look up "train" and then browse the general
interest stuff (very interesting stories about the real China for a start):
This user has a quite a few converted historic
cine including Germany, Austria, Turkey (added 9th January 2009):
Ing. L.D. Porta discussing High Adhesion Wheel
Profiles - technical but fascinating to see the master at work (see also www.martynbane.co.uk/modernsteam/ldp/adhesion/adhesion.htm)
(all added 4th July 2009)
Paddle steamer Waverley (added 11th July 2008)
Wartime Rails 1918 & 1943-1950 (added 3rd
January 2009)
Trains in the Cinema (added 20th June 2012). An eclectic mixture of short
clips, necessarily this doesn't include any of the classics where the train
takes centre stage:
Africa
Angola
Stored steam at Huambo -
A series of films on the Benguela Railway, then
and now (in Portuguese, naturally) added 24th December 2008.
Botswana
Steam in action at the Selebi-Phikwe mine in 1998 (added 19th
July 2012).
Eritrea
Rebuilding the Eritrean Railway (15 minute 1996
news film) - fascinating (7th January 2009)
Preserved Mallets in action -
Many more with these users:
Kenya
2409 on a revenue earning freight in 2006 (10th
January 2009)
Nairobi to Kampala by train 1995 (7th January
2009)
5918 leaves the museum for restoration in 2001
TV report on the Nairobi Railway Museum (11th February 2010)
South
Africa
A day out on the Alfred County Railway in 1986, real trains! (10th July 2012)
Double headed Garratts.....spectacular (6th March 2010)
Sandstone in 2001 (6th March 2010)
The Red Devil in action (9th March 2009)
Many more South African clips from the Red
Devil Man above (9th March 2009)
Rustenburg Platinum Mines (9th March 2009)
15F repatriated to Glasgow on a revenue earning freight in 2006 (10th
January 2009)
Zimbabwe
Real steam (mainly) in 1998 (23rd July 2012) :
20th class Garratts in 2001 (6th March 2010)
Garratts in 1989 (13th February 2010):
Steam in 1991(9th January 2009):
Footplate ride on a 15th:
Footplate ride on a 20th:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5-tHTqUtA
Volunteer cleaning the fire on a 25NC:
Americas
Argentina
The Salta - Socompa line high in the Andes, a documentary made by Argentine Railways in 1970.
"Tren a Las Nubes (Vapor - Ferrocarriles Argentinos)": Thanks to Steve
Mourtion for this recommendation (17th July 2012).
The train at the end of the world (7th January
2009):
Bariloche preserved operation -
Esquel (La Trochita) -
Ferroclub Argentino, Buenos Aires -
Porta's famous 'Argentina' locomotive as vandalised -
RFIRT -
Brazil
Condemned by Progress, a short 1962 film shows the hopeless case of the Virajabara branch in RJ state,
there is a priceless clip of the rack railway to Petropolis (http://www.revistaferroviaria.com.br/memoriaferroviaria/preser_09_ing.htm)
towards the end... (17th October 2012):
Leopoldina 4-6-0 on passenger through the street at Nova Friburgo c1950
(recommended
by Steve Mourton, 10th
July 2012)
This is a film about Imbituba, produced in the 1940s (recommended
by Steve Mourton, 10th
July 2012)
The Sentinel at Cruzeiro in action in August 2009 (9th September 2009)
Estrada de Ferro Perus Pirapora - 600mm cement line - this is brilliant (recommended
by Steve Mourton, added 3rd March 2008)
ABPF Campinas -
Steam on the mountains of Minas Gerais -
São João del Rei -
Theresa Christina
Restored Theresa Christina 2-10-2 201 (8th
April 2009)
Chile
Antofagasta FCAB steam loco -
Cuba
Zafra stuff -
Ecuador
A visit to the G&Q steam works at Guayaquil - a look at the past,
fascinating (25th August 2012)
The steam train from Duran to Alausi -
Trains on the Devil's Nose -
Bringing the G&Q back to life (16th February 2010)
Mexico
Steam in Mexico 1964, be patient, it's well worth
it once the steam starts, part 2 especially (23rd December 2008):
Paraguay
Extended extract from a documentary -
USA
'Real' historic steam powered sawmill (15th May 2013)
Historic films (added 10th July 2012)
- Philadelphia Express Jersey Central, 1897 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VjgFy6cGgI
- Southern Pacific Overland Mail 1897 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgMgfWNAIYE
- Northern Pacific Fast Mail 1897 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mCxbvzGrDY
- Santa Fe California Limited 1898 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ug8NEzLOOs
- Southern Pacific Sunset Limited 1898 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQIBTC8mkE
- Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania, 1900 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4VD1rykK5o
- Northern Pacific Overland Express 1900 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyJgXzvewqA
- Union Pacific Overland Limited 1902 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Y_QF4q38U
- Empire State Express, 1902 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LuWP5oq3IQ
- Working Rotary Snow Plows, 1902 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9O6eJEKPU
- Black Diamond Express, 1902 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_oZT7qJqtI
- Union Pacific Sherman Hill Tunnel 1903 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOedTV5RDE
- Black Diamond Express, 1903 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmq3Ju9s-g0
- The Hold-Up Of The Rocky Mountain Express, 1906 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_3yIi--cA
- West Shore Local, 1906 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk07VbUya-g
- The Development of Transportation 1931 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1CMyX8Ln8
- Let's Ride The Zephyr, 1934 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WKkM0iXN44
- Thundering Rails, 1948 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_znc4SEO08
- Steam Locomotives In Action on the Baltimore & Ohio, 1954 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV0-2xvmguY
- Steam Locomotives In Action on the Pennsylvania, 1954 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5tHB_aw4g
Revenue steam hauled freight on the Strasbourg Railroad in July 2011 (31st
July 2011)
NYC Hudson video 1938 (6th March 2010)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_ywPGzD5E
Awesome big steam on heavy freight, in the
preservation era but quite special - look for 'more like this' (9th March 2009):
Something else a bit special - the imported
QJs at work on the IAIS (3rd May 2009):
and many, many more at:
Asia
Bangladesh
Clearing a traffic jam (added 10th September 2009):
Burma
Our own rice mill steam engines:
Cambodia
The 'Bamboo Railway', definitely no steam! (4th January 2009)
China
Not surprisingly, there are very many, too many, clips, just search
"steam loco China" or similar! And probably the best quality too.
Hours of free entertainment if a little repetitive on the standard gauge at
least. Non-stop 'steam porn'! But I do have the excuse to plug our own (steam
narrow gauge) clips:
See especially from an angle similar to ours, Wolfgang
Clössner's Shibanxi clips (9th November
2010):
India
Udaipur (added 6th June 2011) -
Veiled in Vapour, YP 2662's Last Run on 86 Down to Udaipur in 1996, on no
account miss this one, it is a tear jerker...
Darjeeling -
Nilgiri (Ooty) Rack Line -
Delhi Museum Monorail -
Bollywood at its best -
Steam in action at Tipong Colliery (added 26th February 2008)
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Indonesia
C33s in West Sumatra and C30 in South Sumatra, 1974 (4th January 2013)
Steam Trams in Old Batavia, wonderful stuff, be patient not surprisingly the
trams come and go! (all these 10th July 2011):
Ambarawa Rack Railway (added 10th May 2008))
Steam in action at Tersana Baru sugar mill -
Steam in action at Jatibarang sugar mill -
Steam in action at Olean sugar mill -
Many clips of Java sugar mill steam locos -
Jordan
Restoring and promoting the Hedjaz Railway (2006)
Malaysia
North Borneo Railway
(11th July 2008)
North Korea
From a 1992 visit -
Mainly from a tour in 2004 (15th May 2013)
Pakistan
Pakistan steam in 2004 (9th January 2009)
Khyber Pass Steam Safari 2000 (7th January 2009)
Preserved steam in action in Islamabad
Philippines
Stuffed and mounted and other stills (3rd January 2009):
Sri Lanka
Syria
Restoring and promoting the Hedjaz Railway 2006
(7th January 2009)
Taiwan
Historic 1970s action (you'll need to delve but
it's worth it! http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kuroganerail&view=videos
but particularly: (3rd January 2009)
Thailand
The good old days... All too short clip of steam in the Bangkok area,
probably at Bangsue (26th May 2012)
The end of the Bangkok trams in 1968, absolutely no doubt it's pirated but priceless!
(26th May 2012)
Archive Bangkok tram cine, absolutely no doubt it's pirated but priceless! (26th May 2012)
Steam on the Kwai Bridge -
(11th July 2008)
Turkey
Steam 1984-8 (9th January 2008)
Europe
Albania
Not steam but a fascinating lignite mine with
Chinese style electric narrow gauge (25th July 2009)
Austria
Austrian narrow gauge steam when it was real (3rd
January 2008):
Cyprus
Documentary on the Cyprus Government Railway (6th July 2012)
Finland
Jussi Viitanen suggests this clip of Tubize power at Jokionen (22nd November 2008)
France
Classic French Narrow Gauge - search here for the
"chemins de fer disparus" - silent Cine conversion (10th January 2009)
The Glory of French Railways: (3rd January 2009)
Germany
Oschatz and Radebeul in 1979 (4th January 2013)
Trevor Heath recommends this one on the Harz system:
Greece
For a November 2008 charter train on the narrow
gauge Pelion Mountain Railway:
Diakopto Kalavrita Rack Railway (19th December 2010)
Greek preserved steam (4th January 2009)
Holland
Keith Chambers recommends a 1954 amateur cine clip (keep the unreal sound
OFF):
Poland
Quite a few Polish clips from this user (9th
January 2009)
Classic steam on the 600mm gauge from long ago
(3rd January 2008 - trailer for a commercial DVD)
This gives the background to the 'Wolsztyn
Experience' (7th January 2009)
Like China there plenty on the Wolsztyn operation, more non-stop 'steam porn'!
Keith Chambers recommends this one, search the 'Related Videos' for more of the
same.
Portugal
Douro Valley Special with 186: (9th January 2009)
Portugal in August 1972: (9th January 2009)
Romania
Romania in August 1969: (3rd January 2009)
Slovenia
Specials - this user has general coverage
(diesel) of the country too http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=andersley
Spain
Catalonian Steam (amateur video!) -
(9th January 2009)
Spanish Garratt being transferred (6th
March 2009)
Spanish Garratt at work on a special (6th
March 2009)
Heavy Metal (3rd May 2009)
The old teaching the younger
(3rd May 2009)
Sweden
Keith Chambers recommends this fascinating item, filmed by
Swedish State Railways in 1930 (added 9th December 2012):
Australasia
Australia
A Steam Train Passes (1974), a film about 3801 (Thanks to Trevor Heath
for these two, 22nd October 2012)
Sugar and Steam 1980, ABC film about the end of working steam in the
Queensland sugar industry
(thanks to John Browning for this
one, 1st August 2012)
Garratts - Double Headed AD 60 Class with Coal Trains near Newcastle (17th July 2012).
60 class Garratts double-head up Fassifern Bank - Winter, 1968 (17th July 2012).
A New South Wales 38 class steam locomotive is prepared for the running of the midday Newcastle Express to
Sydney. Thanks to Steve Mourtion for this recommendation (17th July 2012).
Beyer Peacock promotional film for Queensland
Beyer Garrats in the 1950s (6th March 2009)
New Zealand
Coal From The New Zealand Alps, 1950's (10th July 2012)
Steam Lives On - Kb Country (14th August 2011)
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