good ol days

Just carcinogens, living in the moment

David Ofeldt cause the moment is all you got (left)

Okay calm down kids, there are plenty of people who lived through the age of steam and made it to 80 years old Don't pretend you're healthier than they were.

Not a phone in sight, everyone just living in the moment

To be fair, steam engines were still the mainstay of locomotives in Europe and the US up until the 1960s

The hell on earth that is china

Yeah you could just about chew the air...

Thanks! It was amazing to see.

90 years seems more appropriate

@@fadawi2755 parts of the UK still looked like this in the 1960s. Just the footage from that time is more positive and technicolour.

Thank you!

🤣😂😅

Lmao 😂

😂

Thank you

Thank you! It was quite an experience to go and see that!

Thanks, it was pretty spectacular!

Thomas the Tank Engine moment

Finally I have found another train and history brother

Those steam locos are amazing machines!

They do!

I'm still coughing after visiting there...

Yes I think you're right. It hung like a a pall over the cities.

In which case I recommend you go to Google maps, bring up this factory, and check out the lake next to it. This place is among the worst polluted places in the world.

@@chaitanyarao5546 Yes, it was pretty bad. Other lakes and rivers were also pretty nasty.

@@steamfreak has? Has this changed since then? Is it any better now?

It's no different from what the UK was like at the height of the Industrial Revolution.

Thanks

Thank for the info.

Yes it was a gricer! He got good photos I think! 😬

Looks like a nuclear power plant cooling tower, but very unlikely. Probably just a cooling tower for water that is used during the steel production.

Those cooling towers are not proprietary to nuclear power, they range from coal plants to steel as you are seeings here, basically anything that has boiling water which needs to be condensed and doesn’t have a large water body to do the job.

Yeah I think it was a coal power station

Yes, coal power station I think

I think it is all diesel now, but a very interesting place.

@@steamfreak is there any more recent videos anywhere?

That's mainly because I'm also taking stills!

Yep. Heavy loads.

I believe it was air operated from the train air lines, but open to correction!

China was using steam locomotives in everyday service until just a few years ago.

I'm not actually sure what they are?

And it was good!

It's awesome! 🙂

Tipping the molten slag down the dump. Looked very pretty!

HSR are only built around 2008, this film 2001

Not much steam left there now

Indeed

I visited the steelworks and took video and photos.

@@steamfreak Very interesting. Not sure today that you’d be allowed there. Thanks for the reply.

He's dressed as thomas the train and was recording inside his suit

Local contacts! Not sure it would be so possible now though.

Wait yA'll are getting permission .U.S constitution extends across the universe and it's god given right some guy in the old supreme court said so

The hill is made of slag!

They seem to have stopped doing that for some reason?

Not steel. It's slag. A by-product of the process. I'm no expert, but it's probably, mostly limestone flux. Used to reduce oxidation.

Yes, slag waste...

Nah, it definitely has its own oil judging off Google satellites they just choose to drain other countries oil first

Yep, and it was good to see,

Yup... :-(

There are still some steam trains in regular use in China in industrial service, and only a small portion of the rail mileage could be considered high speed rail.

@@steamfreak Did you look at a RECENT map of the high speed rail network. It's already the most extensive in the world and is increasing RAPIDLY every year. I came to China (almost every year) since 2008 and I've never seen a steam train but I've travelled a lot of miles in a high speed train. In 2008 there was hardly any high speed train, but now they are everywhere. Fast, clean, reliable, quiet, cheap/effordable, my ideal mode of transport, it really beats the airplane.

@@steamfreak People (outside China) don't know or don't realize that everything develops and changes very fast every year. So a statement you made, maybe three years ago, for example about the presence of Steam trains might be already totally non-valid this year. I love Steam trains but they are not very loved by the Chinese because they have the "NEW is better" attitude. This attitude translates also in buildings/roads which can be torn down very rapidly to be changed by new projects. That said there will probably be some small steam trains in some backward areas but along the line they are now new electric or diesel.

Yes I keep track of working steam locomotives in China, there are definitely some still working today. I don't disagree with you regarding the extent of the high speed rail network. It is however a small percentage of rail route miles in China. And yes most lines are now diesel or electric. Just because you haven't seen steam locomotives working there does not mean they don't exist.

@@steamfreak where do the steam lines still exist?

No, I'm sure it just makes tiny clouds of local smog which disappear each night!

The sky was thick there... 😢

Have you tried to make steel with zero emissions? All industrialised countries did this.

I took up smoking there so I could have done fresh air...

Rapidly rising though.

@@steamfreak very rapidly

It most certainly isn't a third-world country as you so glibly put.You should visit China and inform yourself.

She seems to have disappeared these past couple of years...

🤣 But there were good steam trains!

You are an expert metallurgist, are you? Well, well, what are doing posting uninformed comments on YT?

Thanks