Vanishing Coal Mines of Pingxi Valley youtube render.avi
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- čas přidán 21. 03. 2010
- Documents coal mining operations in the Pingxi Valley of Northern Taiwan in 1993 and tells the story of the hard physical work required of the men and women who worked in the industry. It also focuses on the railroad system that was essential for moving the product from mountain to market. The last of these mines closed in 1997 after nearly 90 years of operation.
My dad's friend's grandpa used to work here, he still kept one of the carts in his garage, and his reed hat, he told me that one of the carts once fell down when they were dumping rocks, it was crushed into pieces, and the diesel were mostly sold for scraped or destroyed, the lucky ones were saved and taken to the museum or been kept in garages. My dad's friend's grandpa still has a little bit of rail in the front of the garage, and I sometimes go take a look at it.
+Big Allan My respect to all these women doing a man's job. This was really hard physical work and due to the lack of any safety precautions I assume a lot of people were killed or seriously hurt.....
Hannu Bolbach they wanted this equality shit
TheAddRevenue Channel Not really, during WW2, the Japanese forced all men and women to work, if they don't, they kill them or torture them until they die. And somewhere in 2000, and since they live high up the mountains, they need work to live and eat. So when their farms were sold due to corruption in family, they were sold back to the land owner or was sold to someone else. And the women, men, and childrens needed work to survive, so thats also why women and men still work together in mines. Not because of equality, its just to survive.
Would he mind measuring the cart for me? I would love to build some models in tribute.
Thanks for posting this. This was a most enjoyable vid the likes of which i don't see too often on youTube.
Thanks again.
What a wonderful film. Congratulations to those who made it. It reminded me of the days when I worked underground on the haulage system of a long-closed coal mine.
Amazing to see old operations like this. Some reason, this reminds me of Minecraft mine carts. CZcams is a cool way to preserve the past. So much I would not have been able to see, without the internet.
Thanks for uploading this, fascinating stuff. Particularly liked the single-bladed points and the very basic method of unloading/re-railing the spoil wagons.
I rode this at Knott's Berry Farm! ....JKing! I enjoyed watching- thank you!
謝謝您的分享！讓我們追憶失去的景色！
People working for a living, an honest days work for a sad pittance. This documentary reminds us of our good fortune.
Chet Smith
Less than 100 years ago, we weren't too far away from what they were doing in this documentary. Mine safety wasn't an issue to the mine owners.
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In 1894, my grand father, Evan Lewis, was taken out of 3rd grade and put to work in an anthracite coal mine in Schuylkill County, PA. He worked along side his father, picking slate from the coal as it was being lifted up out of the mine.
Watching the men and women work in this video reminded me of my grand father.
Roy
I like that single point switch.
Yes, it's elegant. Operated directly by foot, no need for operational mechanisms beyond the rail itself. Nothing beyond what is necessary.
Called a kick point. Used in British lead mines in Northern England in the 1700s.
wi11y1960 simple, but a tad dangerous, what would happen if it came loose and slid into a position where the main track is blocked and they didn’t see it? Possible derailment of coal cars.
@@HMSHOOD1920 It looked like a derailment would be no problem judging on how they can push the wagons by hand and also tip them on their sides and back, the locomotive might be heavier though.
Efficiency and ingenuity are incredible, yet coallllll dustttttttt, heavy machinery and fingerrrs. Im curious if working conditions improved? No slight intended, I have great respect for their work.
this is just amazing. its like somthing out of a movie or a theme park ride. im amazed places like this existed.
Fascinating piece of film.
I remember seeing a coal barge being loaded on the banks of the Yangtze river by people carrying baskets on their backs. Filthy conditions and the entire village was covered in black dust.
Full respect for these guys doing an excellent job under difficult circumstances! Watching them we can learn a lot about team work, motivation and the spirit to keep up.
No reason to laugh at them and their primitive equipment- one day they will overtake us.
Blood, sweat and tears - that is how we feel the years. Mining was never meant to be easy, that is why there is so much pride in it.
Too bad this may be the only film of the mining and the railway. Too many of us forget not everything is computers and cellphones & this wasn't all that long ago either. galvie45, thank you for posting this.
+ShastaPacificRoad if not for computers and cell phones, you wouldn't be watching this right now
Too true. Altho my cellphone is....just a phone. I don't access the Web on it, I don't play World of Warcraft on it, I just use it to make phone calls..... in emergencies.
shut up boomer
It is just TOO cool to see a mine train in operation!! I hope this one never gets shut down!! : D
Absolutely fascinating!
I absolutely find the gold in youtube now.
These views were differently new information with a different experience to me
So good.
Remind us that what we had before.
Thank you very much for your videos
I found that really interesting. Thanks for sharing
Wow really nice , thanks
A very nice and interesting movie. Thanks for uploading and thumbs up!
i am glad to the old way people are still working not today that every thing is given to them.
Very simple. Very effective!
This is astounding. As recent as 20 years ago? How could they have made any money? Thanks for this clip.
wow...great Doku!
Klasse Doku!
Superb Video! I like it!
Great vid. Many thanks for sharing.
Just Wow!
Film absolutnie genialny. Ciekawe, ile razy wykoleiły się te wagoniki ;)
Very nice, like !
Interesting video.
I know what it is like to work in pain and that lady in the second or third to last view was working in pain, I wonder how many times those little engines have been rebuilt or repaired. Its amazing what you can get by with when you have no choice!
great stuff
State of work by human power will be studying.
A treasure trove of wisdom.
My respect for those people, hard work but well done.
I love those hats, they serve equally to the sun and water :)
Perhaps a family operation because women were pushing coal cars
along with Grandpa.
Love the "Briggs and Stratton" lawnmower engine railway!
Excellent doc. Looks like it rains over there 365 days per year.
Interesting video
Interesting seeing the cable haulage. The only place you can see trains like this in the UK is in a museum, and even then none of them are running.
really interesting.
looks like the place is operated by a bunch of hardworking women?
The men would work in the tunnels, I suppose.
Nice hats!
very interesting video
Awesome
look close it are mostly woman who do the hard labour, thanks for upload
Instead of being on welfare, they were working hard. If we in the US are not careful, all the coal mines here will be shutdown too. It already is happening in WV, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Virginia.
+gravelydon becuse there are jobs available. you just start go digging up some land i nsearch for coal you will ahve about 50 different people trying to throw you in jail.
And so they should be.
Yeah because everyone on welfare lives down the road from a coal mine
This is a great video. I was wondering if the were going to run a train over the suspension bridge shown around the 40 second time stamp.
Wow, that was a really hard work.
Hard to imagine that this was the way it was in 1993! Primitive by any standards, and very sad. Hopefully, those workers are doing better today.
Was this filmed in '10 or earlier?Incredible operation; love that neat little engine & how they manually move the railcar:0. Great job all!
First i thought they have helmets on... but it just agains't the rain hahaha
Fascinating
🇧🇷 BRASIL, 07/06/2023. Essas mulheres são fortes executando esse trabalho árduo.
Sem dúvidas...são um povo sofrido, mas... perseverantes.
Se para homens é um trabalho forçado,imagine para mulheres.
ESTE VIDEO ME RECUERDA LOS VIEJOS SISTEMAS EN CANANEA, SONORA MÉXICO.
Ahh, '93 on 2nd watch so guessin' they've tapped it out:( So interesting!
Nice
Looks like maybe 500mm gauge? The 0-5-0 switching looks like hard work!
I love the low tech ways of life.
I grew up around coal mining in the mountains of Appslachia,Keokee Virginia,my dad worked for a Dollar a day,,,
This may seem non realistic to some, this hard of work, I assure you it is not. When I was a kid in Houston, Texas I remember unloading lumber from boxcars on a siding. They were unloaded by hand, separated and stacked by hand and had to be covered with tarps at the end of the day. Try to imagine how many pieces of lumber were in a 60' long box car. If there were 6-8 kids we could do it in a day for $4. each and nobody was over 14 y.o./ Or how many shovels of sand does it take to make 15-16 tons of sand? but there were kids lined up on top of a long pile of sand where it was dredged out of The San Jacinto River as long as the dump truck shoveling sand until the truck was full then wait on another truck. $5. a day. Were we crazy? Hell no we could go buy a new pair of shoes for $6.95 at Thom McCanns ( all the same price) We could buy a pair of button fly Levis for $1.99 or even a pair of Tony Llama cowboy boots from $9-$11. We were like the "elite" at school because we had money for a Delaware Punch and a Baby Ruth candy bar. (about .17) We could go to a double or triple treat at the movie theater popcorn soda and milk dubs and still have change left for $2.00. Seems like people were so satisfied, happy and peaceful then.
Don Haas, YOU are so right, not only were you the ELITE, but you had the satisfaction that only working hard for some thing brings an individual.I remember all those things you mention, as far as what you were able to do with that money, times were better back then,
the gondolas ( open goods wagons ) look like boxes on wheels . tiny trains .:) interesting to watch the crew shove the cars (wagons ) through the switches. (points ) thanks for sharing this vanished vista.
I dick around with a rail motorcar and trailers every weekend. My methods sort of look like this.
Impresionante.¡¡¡
...the Bowes Ry. is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, or, in layman's terms, a museum--albeit an operating one.
it's so traditional technique
Safety steel capped boots - check! Safety conical straw hat - check! Hi-viz shawl (colour optional) - check! Signal & points man -check! Length of timber to tip wagons over edge with spoil - check! Loop of steel hawser to make sure wagon doesn't fall down slope - check!
The thing is, that there weren't that many workers - even though they all worked at a steady pace, without obvious instruction, just getting on with the job. Collectively they weren't really terribly productive - maybe each wagon held 2 cubic yards of what looked like fairly low grade coal, and there was only one line to the main rail station with its big coal wagon - so I guess that they were filling up 1 large wagon every 4 - 6 hours, maybe? A small coal fired power station needs probably 20 of those wagons each day, enough to heat & light maybe 200,000 homes (I did a bit of Googling for those figures, so if they are wrong, my apologies), so I'm not entirely surprised the mines were considered uneconomic & closed.
O novo material do futuro metro da Trofa!
it does make me curious as to whatever happened to the railway lines cars & locos
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what did they dump in the river? was that coal? or was it just dirt? Thanks, Nice film
It seems the dump is overburden. To excavate minieral, we have to remove top soil usually known as overburden. Its a waste. in other words its Just Dirt..
Very eco friendly
9:18 0:01 good song🥺Like Celtic music
I don't suppose you happened to measure up any of the rolling stock?
Fascinating! Looks like hard work just rounding up the coal cars but I'm quite sure there's plenty more misery deep inside the coal mines themselves. With these little mom & pop coal operations, one can readily see the difficulty the Chinese government faces weening their countrymen off of coal.
It's like going back 100 years in America when only progress mattered.
Wow...looks closer to 1893 than 1993. How could the extraction cost compare to the great open cut mines of Australia etc.? No wonder they closed. Still, as filthy and dangerous as it looks, still better fro the environment than the vast open cut mines. Wouldn't want to work there though. Great film. Thanks.
They have diesel engines and electric motor. And I would rather go and make some money than not.
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Ja piernicze to w Tajlandii kobity nawet wagony kolejowe przewracają ! ale zapiernicz konkretny ...
Physical labour, they are sitting on at kart machines are doing most the work
哇 快三十年了呀
can you see any uk females doing that sort of work DONT THINK SO !
まさに簡便を絵に描いた様な世界ですね
The coal mine wasn't that bad for it's time. They did have Diesel Locks, rails and countless machines from the transporter to train and sort Station. Even the deposit area was Close and environmental didn't seemed to be that hard. I just want to add that the most mines in the World are today less developed especially foreign Gold are Charcoal mines. When they are not runed from gvt's or big companys. Another thing to add the mens did work in the mine . The Womens outside both of them did a hard job.
面白い映像ですね🎵(⌒‐⌒)
本当に、台湾の人は良く働きます。日本にも有ったのですが・・・。
女性も良く働きます。
Very job
The river into which the tailings were dumped (5:11) looks severely polluted. One hopes nature has managed to clean it up since the mining has ceased.
this is a vision of hell. I'd last a day or two.
因為周偉航轉了這影片，跑來看看
Ok this is so cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolol
Manual Labor at it finest.
Interesting film. The equipment they're using looks very old and out of date.
The title of this video is like a meme title from today but it's a real one from 10 years ago :'}
meio sofrido o negocio ai!
Hard work but a life.
I`m lucky to be a Swede.
co-ul? Is it a 2 sylablle word now?
Norfolk Southern/CSX/BNSF would all have a good laugh at that tiny railroad
片頭開始好像是我的故鄉台和煤礦
Please translate , interesting video. Not the typical youtube. Women seem to be running it, and doing well .
Too bad it wasn’t narrated and offered info about the track system? Anyone know what gauge the tracks were? How many people worked there at its peak? I bet everyone gets the day off when there is a sunny day!
I wanna ride one..
3:59 y doesn't he have a door?