Čierny Hron Railway (Slovakia) - Čierny Balog to Vydrovo
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2018
- The Čierny Hron Railway was once a network of 132km built to extract timber from the forests covering the Slovak Ore Mountains. Today a dedicated group of volunteers have restored passenger trains over part of the original route including the steeply graded line in the Vydrovská valley, featured in this video.
To learn more about this fascinating railway in its heyday please click on this link and select “translate” to read it in English - www.chz.sk/sk/chz/historia-chld/
Track gauge 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) - Original video taken on 30th June 2018. Tour organised by
RTC (Railway Touring Company).
Another great video. Thanks for sharing. Safe travels ahead. God bless.
Cheers, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Another good video. Thanks.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Loved it!
It was good day out.
Absolutely wonderful.
Thank you, this is a wonderful little railway.
Super CHZ and video.
An unusual railway, attractive scenery, interesting little steam engines, a great day out.
Nice video !
Thank you.
Hi Tim! Charming view of the loco, pushing the train! And his huge trumpet on top of the pipe touches me every time. :-) Charming landscapes around too. Thanks again!
Hi Chuck, glad you enjoyed it. The little locomotive sports an impressive spark arrestor. It makes good sense, being designed to work on railways in highly combustible forests.
Hi Tim! This is one of many confirmations of reasonable foresight of supporters the 'classical approach', and for technique too.
Have a nice day
In additon, hehehe -- for our grandfaters was very know that is true oldest proverb: 'seven times measured, one do cut'. It preserved him for unreasonable decisions, is not it? But newest 'modernists' act rather the opposite... The result is natural. And examples is countless!
"Measure seven times, cut once", makes sense, I often work on a piece of metal for three or four weeks, by which time it has increased in value many times over, I cannot afford to make a mistake, so I become very cautious, double checking all my programs and set up before pressing the "Go" button on my machine.
Sure, it's very goodand reasonable because you have common sense! :-) Alas, this condition was falled in the world because in science and philosopy just 'Pyrrhic victory' by sophistics was be completelly! This was begun at border 19/20th century... Sure, devil's sophistical method has very long history... For knowlege by good saved documents, it's time by Socratus life, -- as acme of pure philosopy; and may take a 'paradoxes' by Zeno of Eleat, -- as huge lie of pseudo-philosopy method, -- for example. What is you mean about this Zeno's paradoxes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes Can you find logical and physical errors of it, dear Tim? :-)
At 0:50....Whoops! That loco and carriage spent far too long in the wash cycle and shrunk! LOL
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It's an old joke I use often when I see something much smaller than the usual size. Cheers!
Hello Tim, how you got two nice steam locos busy with train? - Heinz
Hello Heinz, we were lucky to have two very attractive locomotives for our trip up the hill.
At 14:58, that old loco(or what's left of it) has seen better days! Great stuff, Tim! Cheers!
That ones going to take some restoration. I love the railways of Eastern Europe, railway-wise there is so much to see, the pace of progress has been slower, so much that is now history in UK, can still be seen there.
SOME restoration? You're a master of the understatement, Tim! LOL Eastern Europeans, by the look of things, haven't benefitted so much from technical advancements that have taken place in the west, so the easterners have had to make do with what they have and keep it operating as long as they can.
Not everything new is best, whats the point of something so technically advanced you can neither afford to buy or maintain it? much better to upgrade existing equipment that is simple and much cheaper to maintain. The best example I can think of is to compare and old Tatra tram with the latest Siemens product, they both do the same job and most passengers would rather their tram network was affordable. Here in the UK trams are being scrapped half way through their working lives because their electronics are out of date and no longer manufactured. The time has come to change the way we look at public transport, Britain is replacing its excellent Inter City 125 trains with cramped uncomfortable Hitachi trains that offer little or nothing in the way of reduced journey times. Once again the Swiss lead the way, they upgrade older locomotives to modern standards, only replacing them when they are truly life expired. Nearly all public transport vehicles in Slovakia are made by Skoda, a company with a sensible attitude to future-proofing their products. Could you you imagine a modern locomotive still being repairable and running in over 100 years time. You visit your local tram museum where the trams are repairable because the are simple, imagine a modern tram with the simplicity of an old tram, it would be much cheaper in the long run, modern trams use more power than the older ones. I think the East Europeans are just being sensible and practical.
Yeah. Sydney's tramway system did that fairly recently. I think it was CZcamsr Phil who shot a video of some recently-retired Sydney trams for his Sydney Trains VLOGS and those trams looked like they could've gone another 30 or 40 years easily. Just another example of the treacherous incompetence of this current NSW state liberal government.
The USA take a sensible and pragmatic view of railway equipment, locomotives are re-engineered several times during their working lives, trams are built to be practical, to do the job for many years. In the UK every new train comes from a different manufacturer in yet another country, they don't work in multiple, in fact the more incompatible they are the more likely they are to prove attractive to the idiots who procure them. In the past Southern Region trains were all compatible, allowing them to be moved from one route to another. The first privatised trains were mainly from Bombardier, but the idiots specified different couplings for some routes, now we have completely incompatible Siemens trains entering service, requiring their own specialist depots, driving techniques and servicing requirements. All this stupidity from apparently intelligent people means trains cannot be transferred from premiere routes to secondary and branch lines in future. Instead they will go to the scrapyard early and the secondary and branch lines will have to buy new trains, making them uneconomic. The lunatics really have escaped from the asylum. With proper leadership, Britain would only have a few classes of train that can be cascaded to other routes as they get older and imagine the saving to be gained from only having to stock spares for a few trains, instead of all the incompatible products that litter the system today. Why can't the idiots learn from the mistakes of the past (first generation Diesel locomotives, most of which were a disaster), a good starting point would be to ban university graduates from entering the industry, only allowing those who have served proper apprenticeships in relevant industries to make important decisions, after all the best people do not teach in universities, only those who are not up to doing the job in the real world teach, as the saying goes "those who can "do" and those who can't teach" never has this saying been more relevant than it is today. I've had to work with too many graduates, at best they admit they just wasted four years, running up crippling debts, but they are willing to learn, at worst they think 4 years drinking, irresponsible sex and drug taking means they do not have to take any notice of those who have spent a lifetime in the industry, because they are somehow superior. Universities need to change so that only the top 10% go and they should work very closely with industry, so that they produce useful graduates, instead of setting up something like 50% of all kids for a really bad start in life. The biggest problem to overcome is that most of the idiots ruining this country went to university.
I want to drive that pink locomotive 15:07
Pink is an unusual choice of colour for a locomotive, but it certainly stands out from the crowd.