Steam in the mountains: Eritrea
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2019
- The line from Massawa to Asmara in Eritrea is certainly one of the nicest mountain railway in the world. Climbing from sea level to an altitude of 2349 meters (7706 feet) in only 120 km (75 miles), the line was built by the Italians from 1887 to 1911. It was later extended to Cheren (1922) and finally reached Bischia in 1932. It is built to the Italian "meter" gauge, i.e. 950 mm. The rolling stock currently includes 0-4-0 tank engines, one "light" Mallet of class 440 and several "heavy" Mallet of class 442, Italian railcars known as "littorina" as well as a number of diesel engines, some relatively recent. Also visible on this video, two old Russian truck (Orion) converted for use on the railway.
What a beutifull country. Some of the clips are straight works of art. The best railway video I have ever seen to date.
My beautiful country Eritrea 🇪🇷 thank you 🙏 for Sharing
The scene as the train passes over the viaduct (2.32 onwards) is absolutely stunning. Love the Sun as it shines onto the trees and mountain range .
Great video . Thank you Sir . Admire and Respect for your Amazing video work from my home Country Eritrea 🇪🇷.
God Bless you.
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Wow! Great video and beautiful country. Visited Eritrea last summer and I had the best time of my life
Eritrea; the most beautiful country that I have ever been to. From the desert shores of the Red Sea to the alpine climate of the Central Highlands it's beauty and totally unspoiled originality is unmatched. And the honesty, kindness and decency of its people still humbles me even after having living amongst them for seven wonderful months. I will always fondly remember their utter honour and almost naive decency.
They've been through a lot though and they know how quickly things can change from stable to warlike. I think the mannerisms are more a function of culture than actual naivete, at least I hope so.
''Eritrea; the most beautiful country that I have ever been to''...then you clearly haven't traveled to that many countries.
@@chilleverest and why is that Eritrea is very beautiful especially if they started renewing some of the old Turkish Egyptian and Italian style buildings and that train as well it would totally be one of the best country’s to visit
@@chilleverest no I've visited many countries and eritrea has the most potential it's beautiful the government needs to get working though I think they have started but many buildings still need to be renewed also with the peace with Ethiopia I hope the economy starts to come back
I'm literally from Italy, and still Italy is 2nd to me after Eritrea. Without even being barely related to Africa. Yet, Eritrea is truly a life changing experience.
Eritreia is beautiful. Congratulations.Brazil
That railroad is a work of art
Top notch camera work - Excellent shot locations - this was one of the best train videos I have seen in years.
I agree , a really lovely video, thank you so much for all the work on this.
I haven’t seen trains like this since I was young. Wow. Cool. Awesome countryside too.
Wow. This video is amazing after some time I viewed a really nice video in u tube. Thanks for the producers. Amazing Eritrea love from Srilanka you are beautiful.
Seeing these Trains, gives me a nostalgic tone and I miss them a lot when I was a child and was waiting for them to pass !! Trains and airplanes are two passions that I will carry with me all the time. What beautiful images !! Loved it
That has to be one of the best potential tourist lines anywhere. The scenery is amazing. While the rolling stock clearly looks very tired, the main infrastructure looks in very good shape. The railway was definitely not built on the cheap with all those tunnels and viaducts.
This railway take more than 30 years I come From there
@@makhulu2013 Very beautiful area. What are the goods you produce? I am a retired engineer and rail yard manager. Thank you, Regards, Dave
@@davevonmuenster6649
Hi Dave,
In the English of most other countries, except US and Canada, their word for "engineer" is driver. They have engineers, but not what we think of, for driving a train.
Just a bit of assist here.
Tourism ruins the land though. It's such a draw on scarce resources, like water. Gov't then prioritize tourism, rather than protecting land resources. Parts of Indonesia now sit ruined due to tourism and the tourists no longer vacation in those spots. It's good, but it needs to respect the limits of the land.
14:39 beautifully atmospheric
What a wonderful video.Well done the Italians for creating this piece of railway magic.The complete foil to the antiseptic modern HST !
Thank you for putting together this great video. I knew Eritrea was hilly.
It is hilly in spades. The Italians did a beautiful job of putting a railway through there.
A work of art...
Amazing photography, stunning scenery. Just added Eritrea to my bucket list.
Hats off to the camera man..captured some beautiful scenes. Watched the whole video without skipping. The train moves so effortlessly and the engine sound is so mesmerizing..wow 👍👍👍
The best cameraman, thank you for the quality work. You brought back an old memory from chilhood. My gradfather use to work in trainstation Demsebay Eritrea(Anseba rigion). I injoid seen Eri-mountains and the railway in a 4K.
Beautiful landscape there too
Very interesting that these places still use 1800 technology and keep it all going. I bet it is a really great experience to ride those rails. what a beautiful country to see too. thanks for sharing this..
Many old railways from 1800 work today… in Italy, for example, we have Genova Torino, from 1854...from Genova to Busalla, "Linea dei Giovi", have 35 x 1000....a nightmare
What a fantastic combination of rugged railroads and great photography! Makes me want to get back to modeling!
That’s a fantastic film you’ve made of an amazing Railway.
It’s so atmospheric! Well done to the filmmaker. 😊
What was most amazing to me, was to see these ancient steam engines still running. Thanks for an enchanting video. Fine job. Loved it.
CONGRATULATIONS on one of the most professional railway location video's I have seen for ages. Beautiful scenery and photography in an amazing Country. Thank you so very much for sharing this with the RUclips community. The line reminds me so much of the Hejaz and DHP railways in Syria, which I travelled and filmed back in 2008. Now I need and want to visit Eritrea.
Stunning footage. Sometimes I felt like I was watching a model train on a layout. The engine steam mixing with the clouds at 17:08 is pure art. The running man escaping the train on the viaduct is also a nice touch :)
Different...very different, The little engine that could....Thank You Kochersberg TV
Wow~ I rode time-machine back to 19C for 30min. very impressive footage. Thankyou.
An excellent production, thank you.
Thank you for making a brilliant video without any background music.
Great experience to watch this video. Beautifully captured. Love from India.
Absolutely superb footage, beautifully captured and edited.
amazing!! Really one of the best videos about steam trains! compliments!! greetings from Italy
While watching the video I lose myself to boyhood days ,such a superb picture and photographic knowledge ! Thanks
Your talent and patience show through with this work.
I can't begin to imagine the logistics for getting all of these stunning views. Well Done!
Sure seems like a nicely built road. Good stuff. I love those Mallets
Amazing footage! What is most amazing to me is that the line has changed so little, in the almost 60 years since I first rode on it. In those days (1962) they had the "Littorina", a gasoline-powered rail car (or perhaps it was diesel). The Littorina was first-class, but there was also third-class service in a passenger car. (Which was always part of a goods train, at least that's how I remember it.) Unfortunately, my photos from the day have been lost.
It is interesting to see how little Asmara has changed. The commentator who wrote about the loveliness of the Eritrean scenery and people was absolutely spot-on.
A pity you lost you pictures. I would have been very interested in looking at them. The littorinas are still there and one of them ran last year. From reports of people who rode it, it is however in a very sorry state. As a compensation for the lost pictures, you can look at mine here if you so wish: www.ona.vu/Eritrea/index.html
I spent 16 months there back some 47 years ago with the US Military Police. What brought you there
What a wonderful video. Thank you, a real gift.
First Class Quality. What a stunning Country. Thank You for Posting.
It's impossible to describe the beauty of the country in words. The video is outstanding and I agree with the other comments which say this is a magnificent video of a truly fantastic railway. I travelled on the line from Massawa on the coast up tp Asmara in 2010. I was also able to travel in the Littorina railcar down to Nefesit. The choice of videoing locations is excellent, especially the long-distance and high point locations. Makes me want to go back!
Thank you, I spent delightful time watching this video. Utterly inspiring.
What a wonderful way to see the country. Fabulous video. Thankyou.
Very nice video, especially the shunting scene at the end, the little loco breaking by reverse gear...
Inhale at 20:42 , you can smell it can't you. Brilliant photography and production.
Thank you for this amazing video.
Train Lord says it all. Phenomenal. I wish there could have been some footage of this breathtaking journey from the driver's cabin and some details of these well maintained locos and the workshops. Maybe another documentary! God keep these wonderful and contented people.
Great! Thanks for all the effort, the images were well worthwile!
Beautifully shot and edited video. Could easily be an Eritrean tourism promotional video. Certainly I could see foreign tourists on this quaint little train taking in the wonderful scenery. Please do more !!
Thank you! Time well spent.
Great, great pictures! Not only for steam enthusiasts but people who want to discover nice unknown landscapes! And excellent quality too.
Very enjoyable rail trip.
Thank you
Wow ! What a video ! Thank you so much for this wonderful stuff !
The footage and editing was simply fantastic. Not high tech equipment, but it seems to work. Thanks for the ride.
beautiful video can watch it over and over again....
this is the most beautiful train video I ever see!
spectacular! especially enjoyed the shops with the turntable.
Waww this my country 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
Absolutely fantastic - thank you
tak starych i sprawnych lokomotyw jeszcze nie widziałem. Afryka górą, brawo !
Best video of a steam railway in operation. Huge tourist attraction, and beautiful scenery.
A spectacular video documenting the railroad.
This is one of the best train videos I've ever seen!
Very outstanding video....The best....Thanks from...Kentucky USA...!
Amazing landscape and model building there! :-)
Thanks for sharing! Awesome and impressive
video!
Awesome, it give's me a nother site of what i reed in the newspapers.
Thanks for this awesome video
Now that was a real treat! Thank you.
Amazing raíl journey and a supreme Mountain scenes
So beautiful rail road
Absolutely fantastic. A joy to watch. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you! This was a great video!
beautiful.iam feeling as if travelling in eritrian mountain region
Brilliant!
With the exception of the final little 0-4-0 all the locos, track and 2 (?) passenger coaches appeared to be well maintained. 4 of those wagons appeared to be well travelled!
Unbelieveable great Pictures!
Fantastic work!
Congratulation!
As Frank Feely already said: awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Great. Thanks for sharing!
Great video, and magnificent footage.
This video on RUclips is the kind of thing that reminds me the C21st was worth sticking around for. In spite of all the ugly trends elsewhere here; a veritable toybox of wonders, gifted at a button-click, from far away. World-class cinematography; so much more powerful for its freedom from narratives or agenda; curiously more essentially human for having a machine and scenery as a focus. And - crucially - the soundtrack, too, is superlative; I love the richly-captured sounds! Thank you for your efforts into making this and for making this so well.
yes the no music or talking and good capture of the sounds on location makes you feel you are there.
Of course a Steam engine makes a wonderful noise just by itself too :).
Wonderful video with nice coverage of greenery and lovely landscapes. True hardwork. I have one person running on the arch bridge when steam engine approaches. Sometimes steam engine train was running with one _two or without passengers boggies. Thanks.
British Army family, we rode the Litorina from Asmara part way to Port Sudan in 1950. Along those tiny one-meter gauge tracks with a small battle-tank wagon being pushed ahead as our main defence against Shifta (rebel) attack. Painted black with a wicked gun barrel, it looked like a miniature front water-tank of a Garratt loco (Dad eventually worked Rhodesia Railways). Armed soldiers, one of them manned a Bren-gun spread-eagled on a raised platform close to us. Somewhere in the eventual desert we transferred for the rest of the way by a more regular looking steam train. Big and blue it was. Massive, to this boy of 7. Clickerty clack, that lightweight blue/cream Litorina was like riding a toy train compared with the UK green monsters we were accustomed to. Asmara station with no platform was a small shock.The indignity of us having to alight this toy from sand level. Thanks for the pleasure you bring, indelible memories.
Thank you for this interesting testimony. The "litorinas" are still there, but they are definitely (definitively?) out of order. In case you have memories of Rhodesia as well, I also published a video on the subject.
Mrbobinge
Thank u for bring back ur 70+ years memory. Ur dad I believe as one of those soldiers whom defeated the Italians and got it out of Eritrea .. right ?! How long did u and ur family stayed in Eritrea and where were living ?! Do u have any diaries of that time ?
Wow ... Stunning.. Thank you.
Yes stunning, especially if you consider that the last 26 km were built in one year (Arbaroba to Asmara). You can call it an achievement. Thank you for your kind comment.
Very nice video. It's remind me of my childhood days where i used to travel in train with steam locomotive. Very beautiful shooting is performed. Great work...
It's like gone back in the time. Wonderful...
I am sure it was not an easy thing to record & edit this video. Thanks for this amazing work, I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the fantastic job and next to the port city of massawa would even make it better. Amazing scenery job well done.
I would be delighted to see a train down to Massawa, but in the moment the track is blocked by a heavy landslide The railway does not appear to have the means to fix the problem, even though reaching Massawa remains an official goal.
Absolutely wonderful - so glad that I took the time to watch this. Many thanks!
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Kochersberg Tv Thank you for your sharing this amazing video of my home country I come From Nefasit who you mentioned in this video sadly I am not living there about ten years because of dictatorship
But I want to say to tourists who want visit Eritrea, Eritrea is safe country you are welcome
Amazing video, superb shooting. Thanks for sharing here
Like for your hard work and dedication towards steam engine. I am missing my childhood.
It creeks a bit but it gets the job done......Many thanks for a great video.....
Outstanding work! Congratulations.
Excellent vdo. I watched completely. It is mesmerizing one.
that's a special place..choo choo! those deep sounds..awesome!
Great video! Thanks a lot!
Excellent footage! With my compliments!
Beautiful camera work! This took a lot of effort and it is well worth it! Thank You!
Amazing Landscape
Magnificent video. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant footage! Really enjoyed watching that!