India: Running out of Steam (part 5 - Final) - Death of the main line steam & the lone survivor
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- These are excerpts from National Geographic's "The Great Indian Railway"(1995), probably the best documentary ever on the Indian Railways. As a young boy, I used to travel to Grandma's place by the Howrah Mail from Madras. In 1989, on one such trip, My dad pointed out to a gigantic engine puffing smoke in the shed at Madras central as our train was leaving and said: "Manu, look, that's a steam engine". I forgot about steam engines later. In 1999(10 years later), I watched the National Geographic's special screening of this documentary on TV. I remembered my encounter with the puffing beasts in 1989. I couldn't stop crying by the end of this documentary. Starting in the early 80's the Steam engines of the Indian Railways have been slowly phased out of all the main lines in favor of Electric and Diesel locomotives due to economic pressures. By the turn of the 90's, it had become a rare sight to see a Steam-driven train. You can buy the DVD or VHS of this 115 minute documentary on nationalgeographic.com. It costs $15 including US local postage.
Watching this makes me so glad that I am volunteering for a non-profit organization in California that is restoring old trains which are steam, diesel, and old train cars. It makes me even more happy that I am helping the crew restore an old 1924 2-6-6-2 Mallet steam locomotive and bringing her back to life as well as perserving and maintaining two operating 2 little 2-6-2 Prairie steam tank engines. There is nothing more beautiful than the sight and sound of an old steam engine.
Hey how many steam locos did u restore?
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Did you succeed?
@@TheRaviguptha
Yep. The 2-6-6-2 Mallet has since been restored to operating condition and runs on weekends. However I moved to a different area to work at Disneyland with the goal of working with their steam trains :)
@@Chris9017 how are you thinking about that after 12 year like technology made train to run 600km/h
Since my child hood I am too much attached to the railways. My uncle worked as a station master and it provided me an opportunity to travel in the steam locomotives as a child. As in the case of others I was emotionally attached to the steam locomotives
I have watched this video both in national geography and in you tube countless times never can i stop tears rushing. Though I am a railwayman working in modern technology,trends and demands still i cant prevent myself from crying.Dismantling those steam beauties it feels like your loved one is teared apart in front your eyes.Plus that national geographic music is a soul stirring and heart kindling one.Sad to see, it is inevitable in these changing times of technology and economy.
it was said that a steam engine is a happening by walt disney, and that among machines the steam engine is the most alive due to its temperment on differant days, it needs feed, it grones and creaks, and breaths as it works, in a word its alive, and they are not called live fired steam for nothing, and they work better the harder you work them it makes the fire burn better and make steam as well as dry the steam out in the super heater better as well, and less steam is needed so it can fully expand as limited cutoff valves are applied, and even in the states we lost far too many experamental and distinct locomotives that were steamers, the steam turbines were interesting machines used in steam and the old watertube boiler engines were experamented with but not one was saved, only 2 gas turbines of the several dozen build for the union pacific were saved and I dont even think they are able to run again even if the up wanted to put them in the heritage fleet. it makes me sad too, all the steamers and heavy metal history that was built by hand, and not computer lost to history, and often not even turned into good metal products, but rebar, razorblades, or sewerlids, not even parts for cars or dignified sheetmetal to make up a new industrial building. not to mention they had way more metal then a diesle which has more plastics in it and less weight. progress for the sake of progress is not always good when you loose your ancestry and memories as well as local identity with it.
Don't Worry In There Still Steam In Heritage Railways
@@manga12 thx
Personally to me, Steam Locomotive is the greatest invention by mankind. James Watt deserves all the reverence from all of us. This man made marvel that moved men & materials for so many decades finally had to take a dignified bow to usher in the technological advance. But the spirit of these engines that have fascinated me right from my childhood days will live with me till my last breath. I really can't bear to see this majestic engines being broken down. Though my ambition was to become a steam locomotive driver, it remained only as a dream till today. With tears of blood and a very heavy heart.....vaidyanathan
Yes really so fact fully views in those days great memorable Driving of steam train
I literally cried couldn't control my tears and emotions. I don't have have any connections with Indian railways from my family side. But my aim in my childhood was always to become a loco pilot.. watching this steam queen what's beauty she was....
My grandfather, and my dad both worked on the IC --- Illinois Central USA Railroad. It was Steam Loco. Dad used to say as a boy he loved hanging out the window and letting the smoke a cinder blow at him. At 12 yrs of age he started to work at 25¢ a day. Alot of money back then. I can understand the attachment to the earlier years. I could see it in my Dads face. Isaiah 11:9
Perfect in to connectivity with railway yet no anybody can forgot steam locomotives at working footplate
These locomotives are powered by coal. Coal is pretty local and common. Unlike diesel or electricity which needs additional infrastructure.
Nothing is permanent in this life but some of these beauties can be restored and kept alive to show our children the glorious steam engines Indian railways had
exactly Mr. Dinesh Mohan, Indian Railways should have kept atleast 2 or 3 locos in each shed atleast for internal shunting duties, so that the future generation could see them and could get a closer insight of the past of Indian Railways, Scraping all of them in large scale was really sadening.
Space problem especially in india we can't preserve them anymore as we have too many rail services for 1.4 billion people. Imagine
My grandfather used to say kari vandi (coal engine) to address these engines. He worked in railways (service man) for 40 years and retired by 1994. All through the time I was with him I gained maximum knowledge about what makes India the largest rail network in the world. He died in 2012 untill then he was paid pension by the railways. Now though am not working for railways really happy and have unstatable bond with trains. Simply I love that feeling of travelling in a train, comparatively our trains are slow, dumb and old but they strongly translate a emotion into me.
It made me very emotional, as a railway fan I must say Thanks to NG team for making such a great documentary and special thanks to the uploader 👏
for indians railway is a emotional attachment which is hard to describe.
Feeling emotional 😭 “A day one has to die similarly, steam locomotives vanishes”
God you might send me to earth during these steam times I am so unlucky!
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Look at that giant engine!!! Those two ladies were shorter than the wheels itself 2:46 !!! Hail the King.
Maaan, I never saw something like before. Never ever. Sad to say that we killed ourselves....
@@reviewer8671 Black Beauties - the old ones from the 50s and 60s were made under contract by General Electric in Pennsylvania USA. They later started making them in Chittaranjan (Calcutta) in the late 60s and 70s.
It was time for Thomas to depart. He had served with distinction.
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The railway officer conducting the auction was not pounding the hammer on the table but on my heart :-(
OUR hearts
Wow so God will
I cannot agree more fully. As a retired railway man I know the pain and nostalgia. Steam locomotion was a challenge; an adventure. I salute the Great, noble, tough guy, steam engine.
Truly emotional, the steam engines have a very special bonding with real train lovers
My grandfather used to be a station master in the 50s . I have heard many locomotive stories from my mom from her childhood. Now I feel like I am experiencing them.
My finest happiest moments of was with the meter gauge stations from Solapur to Hubli my joy was that Golgumbaz express it used to start from Solapur at 8.30 pm & reach Hubli at 6.00 am where my grand ma lives...those narrow locomotives running on majestic steam engines run by humble drivers I have ever seen in my life. That ripest age of 8 I remember those drives smiling at me when I used to ask to take me near the engine & they told with pride that it runs on steam, we could had saved them
This makes me want to cry I love the steam locomotive the king of the Rails
steam locomotive the grand paa of bullet train 😎
So really heart touching video clip about indian railway according to British🇬🇧 era
Such a great memorable moments in the engine shed what's a dream full day with steam locomotives more than thousands workers never loss there's eye view something immortal heart beat ✍️
WHEN I SERVED MY TIME AS A RAILROAD MACHINIST APPRENTICESHIP I WAS PRIVELIGED TO WORK WITH MACHINISTS THAT WORKED IN THE STEAM ERA!
THEY ALSO TAUGHT ME WHAT WAS DONE ON THE STEAM POWER AS WELL AS DIESELS!!
BROTHER RAILROADERS IN INDIA,
TAKE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF STEAM AND PASS ALONG TO THE YOUNGER INTERESTED MECHANICS AND DRIVERS!
YOU WILL BY DOING SO, BE DOING AN HONORABLE DUTY!!
KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!
👍👍
Yes sir it's a fact fully point to rail workers who's real members of RAIL FAMILY
i truly did cry my friend...
I was in tears to see the melancholy on the faces of the steam loco drivers and firemen when they realised that the mighty iron-horses will be replaced by Diesel/Electric locos and they will be sold as scrap.
The erstwhile steam loco drivers must have suffered a lot due to the smoke and oppressive heat of the firebox.
Today’s diesel &electric loco pilots appear neat in their uniform and the better conditions in the locomotives.My salutations to all the loco running-staff for their valuable service to Indian Rlys.
Kharagpur was my hometown it had a loco shed of more than a hundred steam engines of all categories with the WP locomotive as its pride, Kharagpur also had the the longest railway platform in the world and was a junction servicing the Madras, Bombay and Delhi lines. my father was steam driver and I followed his progress from a fireman to a mail driver (express trains) I spent a lot of time during school holidays with him on his many trips I knew nearly every part of the loco. I wanted to join up when I left school but changed my mind due to the introduction of desiel loco's. Those steam railway men were a tough breedand weather beaten, .may god bless their souls. I felt a loss since I left India.
I wonder why none of Indian film makers could make such touching story..script, story telling, auditions...perfect to tear Ur heart apart😪😪
I am sorry i cant see the whole video. My tears are not stopping
Is it wrong for me to have shed a tear as watched this!
Thanks for uploading this video 😊😊😊😊
Wonderful video we cannot forget the service renderedbysteam engine tears are coming from my eyes Sundararajan Tnagar
I Love steam engine.. my grandpa work in SR.. am also travel in steam engine 2 times.. it's a beautiful journey no words of happy momeries.... Such a beautiful thing
I am Italian and I am much older than you.
I remember when with my grandfather I went to the station and saw the last locomotives in use pass, still today I have my collection of steam models in my room and that I look at right now, certain that that mechanical system has stolen my heart. In Italy locomotives have in fact disappeared around the mid-70s, replaced by electric locomotives today exist only for tourist events.
I understand that this is also the case in India.
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We lost the basic important Discovery steam era victory over the world by a man not an steam engine
Auction is not the right way to close down steam locomotives, the video of the engine cutting and breaking broke my heart 💔💔💔😭😭😭
Outstanding cinematography
Beautiful moments of our childhood days when we travelled.
I love my railway. But old engine energy always remain in my heart .as my father four generation served. My children do not understand my father memory they are computer age people
Every person who has seen this golden nostalgia can't hold back his or her tears iam Damn sure about it.
We will soon be talking of the last days of our Alco 251B based diesel locomotives as nostalgically as this video described the demise of mainline steam. How time flies indeed!
Truly emotional.
I still love these Black Beauties
@steamboy51 True, but there's no reason to despair. Steam preservation is replete with many success stories, and more and more trusty veterans are being brought back to life around the world every year. And for those of us who don't have really deep pockets, there is always the prospect of owning a live steamer, which is practically the same experience in miniature (I own a G-Scale 0-4-0T, which I love with a passion).
As I like to say, diesils come and go, but the steamers go on forever!
This never cease to make me feel emotional… :,)
sad.. whats happening to Indian rlwy workers happened to british British rlwy workers in the 60s. brought up as skilled grafters, let go by the politicians & industrialists of their day.
How much of this world is lost thru modernisation, what a waste, apprentiships included.
Steamers were dismantled in 70s in India 10 yrs after british
Just because something is old, doesn't mean that you just throw it away. There are steamers that are over 100 years old that still run just fine.
Although I've never been to India, I have heard of its railways, and I feel so sorry for these men. I'm from a railroading family myself, and I can't imagine what it feels like to lose these engines to the vultures that are the scrap-men....
I belong to a Indian Railway family and to become a engine driver was my childhood passion.Even the famous writer RK Narayanan engraved in his entrance house door " Narayan B.A.,B.L Engine driver" during boyhood.
I could not finish watching this.....too sad.
Literally I cried a lot...no words to say on comment. Time is nothing..time is time .
Happy to state that, those same steams are still running in the Darjeeling trains. They are over 100 years old!
so nice Documentry
I had the opportunity to travel by steam loco run train between guntur to nandyal section number of times s
During my childhood
Tears coming from eyes.
A slice of past time, really nice .
thanks a lot MR BINOY
Very Sad,These Steam Engine reminds me of my childhood days. They could have retained it at Museums. Its heartbreaking
Great video..........it was an emotional experience
Same shed was in Moradabad UP Northern Railways as well. It has converted into Container Depot now.
Aah, those days will never come again. Please charge us but bring back my childhood again . Plz
भारतीय रेलवे को इन सभी भाप के इंजनों को तोड़ने की बजाये संभालकर रखना चाहिए था और आने वाले समय में इन्हें फिर से पटरियों पर चलाकर आज के समय के बच्चों व बड़ों को भारतीय रेल के इतिहास के बारे में बताना चाहिए था की भारतीय रेल के इतिहास में सबसे पहले भाप के इंजन ही चलते थे
I felt same about the old alco and GM and British Electric locomotives which we bough in the 1950s, and a few days ago they were being taken for scraping and sold out to the bidders. They worked for 60 years and scraped a few days ago
Missing my childhood days 😥😥😥
it truly brings sheds of tears of mixed emotions. The glory of past era of Indian Railway, build from colonial times. These are moments of joy, hope and despair in the country of India with several colors. Steam Engine was the true hero, of the centuries, carried mass people from time to time, carried history after history, independence, the scent of all great patriotic people of India.. , who fought for our country.. the nobleman for which we feel proud of our history. Thats what was carried by steam engine from time.
The new era of iphone etc.. are nothing it just made us smaller in mind and spirit. The spirit of those real patriotic days are gone, and steam engine carried that memory
Psyche1954 I get your point. Even I also hope for change, and changing to newer and better technology. It is good that we have faster trains now all over the world, which doesn't ejaculates harmful gases, and moves faster. But again there is something called the quality of joy, and a symbol of the past. I am not telling to bring back steam trains, but we can still keep atleast one train in major train routes, as a symbol of the past. I would not have said so much, if there were some existent of it. We only say such, if something is completely wiped out with the passage of time. Definitely if electric trains in our country gets replaced with maglev train, I wouldn't really feel that much to bring it back, anyways electric train is not the origin of train. If we look how George Stephenson invented trains, it is steam as well, so that carries the symbol, not trains of now, not any trains in future as well. Technology will come and go, and a newer technology will make the new technology older next day, but symbol of origin never fades away. There are lot of train lovers, who will actually enjoy the ride in their leisure time, as a walk down the memory lane. If we really about ejaculation harmful gases, then we need to say that, so many cars we are buying every day, vehicles, ejaculations from industries are causing harm to the atmosphere, a lot more than steam engines itself. In any ways nothing we can stop completely all we could do is minimize. In other words, if we think in that angle Industrialization caused those problems, however there came more pros than cons.
It made me cry.. Can't control
Very True whatever is being said by this Gentleman who seems to be very sad and disappointed about the Steam Locomotives that were a Great Pride of the Indian Railways. Surely one can understand the feelings expressed by this man who has taken these Steam Engines to be a part and parcel of his own family members. Sad all these Locomotives have been done away as Scrap.The best part is that duing my younger days I used to travel frequently between Londa to Belgaum on the Hubli Miraj division and the Steam Engines were the YC model type styarting from YC 550 to YC 564. And Most of these Mail and Expess trains used to be Anglo-Indian Drivers based at Hubli who were, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Bentley, Mr, Chateliar, Mr. Wrenzle, Mr. Woods and above all one well known and most famous and fastest train driver a Parsi by name Mr. Surthi. He used to play havoc with these Engines and would take the trains at great speed at times very scary.
Very painful. It was / is nostsljic.
We too had our iron beasts that brave engineers and firemen worked for generations.
I love railways
Depicted emotions of people who worked alongside of steam locomotives...
Nothing soothing as a steam railgadi
I love steam engine era of railways.
What happened to the scores of people employed by steam loco sheds across India? I have vivid memories of men who used to ride their bicycles past our railway house daily. They were all employed at the loco shed or railway workshops that were geared for steam. A huge number were employed for cleaning and others supplemented their incomes by collecting coal!
Soon, decades later, the diesel and electrics that directly replaced steam would suffer a similar fate, I’m just glad some old diesels and electrics are preserved and cared for!
After working for so many years this kind of end should not come to steam engines there is a lot of place to keep them as monument s and so that younger generation may know about steam engines also once is month they can run trains hauled by steam engines to preserve the heritage. Actually tears coming out of my eyes what apity in the name of de velopment the steam engines are destroyed what apity to those engines o god sundararajan chennai
I miss my childhood
Yeh vakai adbhut hai. Desh ke shaan.
Now even Diesel engine is gone.
bryuh
Wish it was there
This made to cry
That was very sad indeed. Its heartbreaking to watch something, that was someone to a person just being disposed of like that. Steam engines are just like people.
On another note I am VERY happy to hear that the Darjeeling engine will stay by government rule.
I love steam locomotives
Sir place these things in museums
I honestly don’t mind the scrapping of old locomotives but it can sometimes sad if it leads to an extinction of a whole class or something.
Missing that good olden days
It is sad that the trains are sold for scrap metal. I wish they could be kept and turned into museum pieces. I see there is a train museum in Delhi, so I wish some of these beasts of trains are there. In the USA, we only see stream-driven trains in Western (cowboy) movies that are old.
The National Rail Museum in Delhi has some small ones. I don't recall seeing any giant steam locomotive there.
6:28 new dawn, new era
Old is gold
The Great Indian Railways...
😢😢😢😢😢how sad good old times
Darjeeling steam loco still here today 😁
crying
Gone with the wind
An otherwise bullshit video is made immortal by the BGM and the lady narrator.
Awesome.
Now Itz Time For Diesel Alco Locomotives ..😪
O M G
It hurts more than 2020
heart touching
My grandfather came to America and worked his entire life welding tubes in the hot bellies of the steam engines. Progress, Growth, and Development for what? 100 years from now we will ride horses and steam again or perish as we will be out of liquid fuel. Why did we have to be born in this generation of greed?
Sir can start steam loco in India future
tears
and they say titanic was dramatic.
Apart from comments actual indians using railways occasionally or for daily commute doesn't give a fuck , they cuss railways for being late , an electric engine , imagine if it is a steam engine.
I saw this toy train in Himachal
Steam locomotives 🚂 were ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️⚡️💯
Those days.. there was a close attachment between a human and a machine also.. that is ancient India. But now.. humans are turned like machines, commercialised, materialised..with no emotions..
Intead, machines are turning like humans (machine learning +Artificial intelligence)