Would you ride this YUGOSLAV train!? 🇲🇰
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Join me for a ride on the Yugoslav Railway! For my latest Balkan adventures, I set out to see my last 2 former Yugoslav republics: North Macedonia (formerly the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and Serbia. In this video we begin in Pristina, Kosovo and we take a bus to Skopje, North Macedonia. Finally, we hop on a train from Skopje to Prilep, a city in the south of North Macedonia. I could not have asked for a better train to take us there: a Yugoslavian train! This is the first of 5 videos from this trip. I hope you enjoy!
0:00 Kosovo's Bus Station
5:40 Skopje's (gross) Train Station
9:05 YUGOSLAV TRAIN RIDE
17:43 Prilep, North Macedonia
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Fun fact, that locomotive is American made and is usually called "Kenedijevka", built by General Motors.
we had a few of them still in Osijek, Croatia until a few years ago. The mechanics would make spare parts themselves since you can't order any. They were so loud those locos.
Nowadays we have austrian and hungarian companies driving on our rails.
Wow ... that train station has not changed since 1984 in the old yugolsavia.....
Spent a night on that station with a German and a Canadian Backpacker drinking plum brandy before a very eventful journey to Salonika..
Happy days
I have to recommend, since you're in Prilep, there is a monastery called Zrze Monastery. I urge you to go and visit it, you'll probably have to rent a car to get there, but trust me it's all going to be worth it. You might cry when you see the view, a heads-up. And the monks are so well-educated, speak English and are extremely friendly. We have been going there every year for the past 5 years, a wonderful tradition.
Very good to know. Unfortunately I’m not in Macedonia anymore :/ but I’ll keep this in mind for next time. I did make one more video in a village near prilep though (Desovo) that I’ll have finished soon. Thanks for watching :)
How can you only have 4000 subscribers.. Great videos.
my friend you are very lucky for traveling with yugoslavian old train. Those trains are used very rarely only when these new modern trains are regularly maintained due to a lot of electronics and chips that is maybe two or three times a year
Hey boss man.. keep up the good work with these videos.
there are plenty more to come, thanks for watching as always!
Np…
Amazingly beautiful scenery passing rivers and through mountainous valleys from Skopje to the Greek border....
In 1963 Skopje was destroyed by earthquake
Wow, I had no idea. 200,000 people lost their homes, that's crazy
You're always up to the coolest stuff Ben, thanks for the great video!!!
thanks for being a dedicated viewer since day 1 :)
I went with my friend on a bikepacking tour around ex-Yu + Albania previous year
Now I get memories back when I watch your videos, really enjoying it!
I love your videos in Macedonia. Enjoy your trip!
thanks for sharing
Algorithmic punch!
I enjoy your delivery.
Thank you! :)
Very gud.thank you boy for this amazing viedo.love Balkan from Pakistan
Nice vlog!
Thank you!!
Okay, Ben is American, but he is definitely not an American train spotter. Otherwise he would have known without even looking, just by listening to that engine: it is an EMD! I love that sound.
Fair enough :) I love me a good train ride, but I know next to nothing about them
Shoot, dope video. Next time you're in Skopje, let me know! I've taken the train many times, as I live there.
7:28 -I bursted into laughter when he said "Kaži momče" (Кажи момче) lol. 🤣👍😂
❤Yugoslavia ❤
As a Macedonian I can tell you that Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian are South Slavic languages and are above 90% mutually intelligible. The difference is that in Croats use the Latin script, Macedonians use the Cyrillic script, Montenegrins, Serbians and Bosnians use both (but not equally, one is usually more used than the other).
Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrian are the same, Macedonian is mix between them and Bulgarian
There is an interesting Yugoslav era monument (spomenik) in Prilep. Burial mounds of undefeated. Споменик Могила на непобедените.
I love American ethusiasm. Even if the conditions are bad. By the way during Yugoslav times Montenegro was also part of Yugoslavia and just simply Macedonia. Now officially is North Macedonia according to agreement with Greece. Best to you...
Bro if you can speak Serbian they will mostly understand you especially the older people who lived in Yugoslavia.
at the station, you can shoot a film about the 1980s in the ussr ready-made scenery😄
cant wait for the sandzak videos.
I am fromer hockey player and now a hockey coach.i want in belkan countries to start field hockey I think they are playing only football
You can ride the train from Prishtina to Skopje ( Shkupi) with a changeover at the border
Not anymore :(
I remember those train bathrooms, it was forbidden to use them while the train was in the station.
Lol makes sense, that’s so funny
@@BenTheRules Yes it makes sense, but you did not want to use it when the train was at full speed either, because the draft would throw it back on you , especially if you had diarrhea after eating some bad burek you bought before your trip.
@@alexander821LOL😂😅 hahaha ha crkoh
Those that say during jugoslavia the economy was good but thats because the 2 economic strong countries of Croatia and Slovenia were financially supporting all the others
Just like with Germany’s west and Italy’s north been the economical powerhouse sections in those countries and providing support for Germany’s poorer east and Italy’s poorer south.
That's true, rest of the country milked Slovenia and Croatia.
Lemme ride dat train
Where is jugoslavia? Cant find it on the map
it's just to the south of Sjeverslavia
Look the maps before 1991
pourlectr
je comprends pas
Ben je Srpski Spijun ...
never north
Amerikanac koji zna jako dobro pricati bosanski jako sumnjivo zar ne ?
Impossible
@@BenTheRules Sure ?
Actually, he speaks more proper Croatian even with some accent. Like the word "vlak" for train, no one southeast of Croatia uses that, it is typically "voz". @BenTheRules, Great videos, I really enjoy your content. 🤗
@@MarL1pactually in Bulgarian it is also "vlak" (влак)
A bit unusual that Serbs were the most numerous ethnic group in ex Yugoslavia and yet only in Serbia were there ‘autonomous provinces’ created, not only 1 but 2. Meanwhile no Serbian majority regions in other republics were classified as anything. Isn’t it also true that the Serbs sacrificed the most of all the ethnic groups in both world wars and for what???
If I had to guess I'd say because in Kosovo and Vojvodina the biggest ethnic minorities were Albanians and Hungarians, neither of which are Slavs. Whereas in Bosnia and Croatia the Serbs were minorities amongst other south slavs. that's the only difference I can think of. I'm not an expert on Yugoslavia at all so maybe someone who knows more can add to my response, but that's the first thing that came to mind
@@BenTheRules you are right, but 30% of the North Macedonians population is Albanian, the whole northwestern portion is majority Albanian, likewise with the very south of Montenegro (Ulcinj). Istria was formerly majority Italian. No other republic was carved up like Serbia and it really came back to bite us in the ass when it became time for Yugoslavia to fall to pieces.
Still smells on Tito.
Good job (but F... Jugoslavia)
you must be young with comment like this......
Why? Jugoslavia is dead and buried and was a dirty corrupted communist regime, so he is 100% right @@aussie1546
@@aussie1546Or he just might be Bulgarian to say that? 🤨
LOL!!!@@jovan-noble-guy749
Who did tito smell? Did you sleep with him or something?