India: Running out of Steam (part 1) - What Railways mean to India

[GTGreviews]

It will be the same once the world replaces the loud mean looking beast of today, with the speeding dildos.

[suryasanyal]

i think the indian railways should think of bringing back steam engines in some local routes maybe.....

[4freespeech]

This is what happens to nations who get in the grip of the World Bank. The

criminal banksters first arrange for cheap oil so economical coal engines are scrapped in favor of oil. THEN, when the coal engines are GONE, the banksters RAISE THE PRICE OF OIL, making it "unprofitable" to stop at small stations. SO the stations are closed, the villages become bereft of their transportation, the jobs are LOST, and the World Bank has STOLEN yet another nations LIFE

BLOOD, HERITAGE and SOUL. TRAGEDY!

[imkoolkiller99]

steam i want to stay why they do this

[superstarprithviraj]

WOWWWWWWWWWWWW BROTHER THANKS

[TheDepotCat]

Steam is great. I recently posted a video showing a preserved example at Woking in the U.K.

watch?v=tu8BXbz8KEA

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Take a look at the BBC documentry too.

Bombay Railway - A BBC Documentary - Part 1

watch?v=9fIuMzQwGJ8

[trainlover658]

steam locomotives are the closest things humans have created that is almost alive...

[justin10347]

I know how y'all feel back here in America we used our steam engines well into the late 1950's some of us really miss them. The smoke and steam even the sounds of the whistle's blowing :(

[resist4resist]

@ Chris9017 by the way Union Pacific Big Boy is my most favorite non Indian Railway steam locomotive. One day I am going to visit Pomona to see the static exhibit there.

[UnionPacific7004]

I can understand how you feel. It's always hard to find these beautiful locomotives running. I volunteer at a railroad museum that plans to bring back one of its steam engines back to service by this August the latest.

[ac124278]

Best Vid Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ohiosouthern]

Thanks for posting, I am going to have to get this DVD, I watch all 5 parts in order, it is sad but it just show how little we care anymore.

[cyruslovesindia]

Beautiful. Video. Brings tears to my eyes. I occasionally say steam engines but never in their full glory. Just missed the steam generation. Thanks Binoy.

[stlgevo51]

Wow! I have a VHS recording of this documentary from the Darjeeling Hamylian Railway, but I never knew the first part existed. Thanks for sharing this documentary with us!

[niladrisil1]

Great narration.

The same way we were told stories about RELGADI by our granny.

[binoyrakesh]

Thats the voice of Linda Hunt. She is a great narrator, has a deep, touching and pleasant voice. She won the oscar recently.

[nxtvctm]

1:41 awesome speed

[vmdave]

great upload....love to watch...i still love chhuk chhuk gadi at the age of 52

[binoyrakesh]

Sir, Please watch all the videos. there are five parts including this one. check for the next part on the related videos :) ---------->>

[vmdave]

yes..i will...one by one i will c all...thanks...

[bonabos26]

hi dude nice video

thnx for posting

Im a travel enthusiast and definitely Indian railways is the best way to get around in India. I used to travel regularly in the mumbai kerala route along the konkans and when the triain enters the konkan wilderness leaving behind the heavily polluted mumbai it was heaven

keep posting!!

[a7K8k6i]

Dude I this is great! Thanks for uploading!!!

[resist4resist]

Binoy, I completely agree with the opening phrase of the video. I belong to that group of "boys", who never thought of steam engines as they were being gradually phased out. It took several years, before the remorse set in. All we can see now are plinthed steam locomotives at various stations, branch and head offices of IR put on for public display like the mummified bodies of Egyptian pharaohs of antiquity. Take your diesels and electrics away...and give me back my steaming beauties!!!

[Chris9017]

@resist4resist There are many steam engines in America, and England that still operate on tourist railroads. You just need to do your homework and find look for locations that have them. I work on a steam train on weekends in California, and it's a wonderful experience.

[resist4resist]

@Chris9017 Thanks for your reply. The steam preservation movement in India is already gaining much required impetus. Long defunct steam shed was restored several years back and now, it is the only operating steam shed for steam locomotives in India at present. It houses several steam engines from broad gauge (5' 6") and meter gauge (3 ft 3 3⁄8 inch). Also, a broad gauge Bayer Garrett was restored some four years back. It is good to know that you work on a steam locomotive on weekends.

[Chris9017]

@resist4resist No problem. I'm glad that preservation is happening in India too. America has lots of steam. The engine I am restoring with the Pacific Locomotive Association in California is a 2-6-6-2 Baldwin logging Mallet, kinda like a small Big Boy. I do restoration work on Saturday, and Sundays I'm a hostler or what you would call assistant fireman on a little tank engine, and I grease the moving parts, sand out the boiler, give the engine her oil and fill her up with water.

[4freespeech]

@Chris9017 In a remote village named CASS, in the State of West Virginia USA, where I was born & raised, the governor made an old steam logging railroad into a State Park when it was about to be scrapped back in the 1960s. Today it runs several steam engines daily, the oldest of which is over 100, on the same tracks almost the same way they used them on the mountains 60 years ago. The engines only require a small amount of OIL for lubrication, but burn coal mined in the mountains.

[trainmaster500]

Binoy thank you so much for posting this. I have been looking for this video everywhere -It's one of the best videos ever made by NG!

regards

[deepam08]

you know in 2008 indian railway made highest profit in the world 2500000000000 rupees!! more then wallmart highest in the world pride to us!!!!

[TheWidowsSonTemplar]

Hope you add another video. I'd like to see who won the Black Beauty contest. This is how I will always remember India. It was heaven in the days of steam.

[binoyrakesh]

By the 90's the Government was forced to replace these beauties for faster, more reliable electric engines.

But the thing is: Steam locomotives have a character to them. The way they look, the way they puff, the chugging - They have life. We won't get that amusement from seeing an Electric in action.

I have uploaded another part. Which has the black beauty contest covered. There will be five parts in all. Watch them all. :)

[TheWidowsSonTemplar]

Great film. India should have stayed with steam. What a great loss to India and the world!

[binoyrakesh]

Here is the reason my friend: India is different when compared to China in many ways. Economically it was better off than china until the 60's.

In China, the government makes huge infrastructure-related investments - This fuels the economic betterment of people and the Nation itself.

In India, The government is forced to make infrastructure investments everytime the people's economic growth reaches some threshold that needs action by the government. So it is people-driven in India.