Driver’s Eye View - Harz Mountain Railways - Part 2 - Bahnhof Eisfelder Talmühle to Drei Annen Hohne

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Жыл бұрын

Welcome to Part 2 of Drivers Eye View - Nordhausen Nord to Drei Annen Hohne. Our locomotive can be heard working hard as it lifts its train higher into the mountains, recent tree felling has changed the landscape, with no leaves on the remaining trees the views are uninterrupted, I’d guess that it’s been 40 or more years since such views were last seen. With the wind blowing and wet sleet falling on the wild hillsides this ride had all the authentic atmosphere one would expect from a 365 days a year working railway, although it was freezing cold on the carriage balconies, the coal fired stove inside the carriage kept passengers warm.
The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) is a railway company operating a metre gauge (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) network in the Harz mountains, located in Central Germany (formerly East Germany). The company was formed after the Second World War with the merger of the Gernrode-Harzgerode Railway Company and the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company, the entire network fell within the Soviet Zone of Occupation, later East Germany. After the compulsory acquisition of the line in 1949, the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ran it until 1993.
On 1 February 1993 the private railway company Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB) took over the rolling stock and the daily running of the system from the Deutsche Reichsbahn, since then it has acted as both the railway operating company (EVU) and railway infrastructure company (EIU). HSB owns about 140 kilometres (86 miles) of track, connecting the principal towns of Wernigerode, Nordhausen and Quedlinburg. Much of the network is steeply graded and picturesque, with the most popular destination being the Brocken, the highest mountain in the region. The company runs a significant number of its trains with steam haulage, mostly employing 1950s vintage 2-10-2 tank locomotives, hauling traditional open-platform bogie carriages. The company is mainly owned by the various local authorities whose territories it serves.
On the day of our visit to the line we were booked to travel from Nordhausen to the Brocken, sadly Mother Nature stepped in to change our literary with winds rumoured to be well over 100mph preventing trains from running to the Brocken, instead we could either travel to Wernigerode or to Wernigerode - Hochschule Harz for a works visit. In this video we travel between Bahnhof Eisfelder Talmühle and Drei Annen Hohne.
To book your own trip, please click on this link -
www.hsb-wr.de/
For more information about the railway, please click on any of these links -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_Ra...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_Na...
csrail.org/harz/2015/9/30/his...
Map - 00:36 - Google maps
Harz Railways Map - 00:43 - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
File URL: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Attribution - Harz_map.png: Bamsederivative work: Liesel, CC BY-SA 3.0
This visit was part of a rail tour arranged by the “Railway Touring Company” - if it’s something you’d like to know more about, please clock on this link - www.railwaytouring.net/europe

Пікірлер: 151

@user-ih7ve2sz2p Ай бұрын

какое интересное путешествие ! Просто какие-то сказочные леса! Так и кажется .что вот сейчас лесорубы появятся... или из зарослей колдун выйдет !!

@roodiea.4911 Жыл бұрын

Hello again Tim. Part 2 was very interesting. I really enjoyed the different elevations, and all the twists and turns. Some of the vistas are stunning. Even with the rain and the dense clouds it was a nice ride. In some places it reminded me of some of the hills and hollers in Pennsylvania on down in the hills surrounding the Appalachian's. Thank you for sharing.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the views from the train, varying from quaint villages to wild wilderness, exarerated by the stormy weather. I'd love to visit the USA again, it's a big country, to date I have only visited Colorado and New Mexico, that leaves something like another 48 States that I have yet to visit !!!

@PRL2204 11 ай бұрын

Wow this took me straight back to the 90s..

@Timsvideochannel1 11 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoyed re-living the moment.

@dellojulien Жыл бұрын

HALO TIM hier ben ik weer met de wondermooie opname . !!! 👍👍👍bedank voor deze prachtige reis , waar van ik enorm heb van genoten . 😀😀😀wat mij opviel was dat prachtig station van ELEND . hartelijk bedank en de groeten van me . 👮👮👮

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hallo Julien, ik ben blij dat je deze prachtige rit op de Harz-bergspoorweg leuk vond, het is een onvergetelijke ervaring, rijdend achter een grote tankmotor door een prachtig landschap, onderweg aantrekkelijke stations aandoen. Beste wensen. Tim 🙂.

@ADMIRALSCORNER Жыл бұрын

Such a great railway and countryside! Love the video!

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Cheers, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

@salloom1949 Жыл бұрын

I watched both Parts 1 & 2 and I thoroughly enjoyed both parts. Thank you very much for the excellent video production.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed them.

@Too519 Жыл бұрын

a journey of wonderful surprises thank you thank you

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@mariahelenadasgracas3507 Жыл бұрын

Tim eu gosto muito da alemanha muito obrigada pelos seus videos um abraco

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Obrigado, estou satisfeito que você gostou do vídeo. Eu realmente gostei de fazer uma turnê na Alemanha e estou ansioso para compartilhar mais vídeos feitos nesta turnê.

@Maxxon89 Жыл бұрын

Amazing view. Beautiful nature. Feels great!

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm really pleased you enjoyed the video.

@angelikaluft2515 Жыл бұрын

Wieder mit der Dampflok durch den Harz. Im Sommer viel schöner, im Video sehr trostlos. In 1991 bin ich durch Elend gefahren, da war der Name noch Programm, heute sicher nicht mehr. Danke für's Mitnehmen☺

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hallo, die Aussicht von der Harzbahn im Winter ist windgepeitscht und trostlos, aber auf ihre Art doch schön. Ich werde im Frühling oder Sommer wiederkommen müssen. Ich freue mich, dass Ihnen die Fahrt gefallen hat 😊.

@jamesburnside3023 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic shooting and scenery so enjoyed

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊.

@nicholasroberts6954 Жыл бұрын

@25:00 and beyond. Wonder how much of this trackside cleared pasture land was once forested ? There are bits of the countryside here that look like newly de-forested Amazon basin 😮

@chrislaarman7532 Жыл бұрын

(See my top-level comment) I seem to remember that emergency felling had been performed to prevent spreading of a beetle.

@OmniaInNumerisSitaSunt Жыл бұрын

It's all grey and brown in winter but it has loads of charm nevertheless. Loved the journey Tim. 😍👍🏻🙋🏻‍♀

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

The scenery, like most mountain scenery is moody, it looks totally different on a bright summer’s afternoon to how it looks on a dull stormy morning. It’s the ever changing weather that gives mountainous regions their special qualities a place where the seasons completely change the outlook.

@OmniaInNumerisSitaSunt Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 That is why I like moody weather Tim. It's lovely to see the scenery in a different light, so to speak. Every season has its charm, although most of us tend to prefer one over the other. ☺

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@OmniaInNumerisSitaSunt I couldn't imagine life without seasons, although I must express a preference for Spring, especially if it’s following a particularly hard Winter 😊.

@OmniaInNumerisSitaSunt Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 When I was younger, I loved experiencing the 4 seasons. I grew up in the former Yugoslavia (nowadays Serbia). But now that I am used to the Aussie (Queensland) weather, I like warmer climates. Not so much the hot and humid summers here but the cooler winters that I find just right. I don't think I would like the freezing winters that we used to have in Serbia anymore; my achy lower back would hate it. 😅

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@OmniaInNumerisSitaSuntYou grew up in a beautiful country with a far more extreme climate, I fully understand why you like Australia now, here in the UK, it’s the damp cold days I'd like to escape from, although global warming has had an effect, snow is rare in winter now and our summers are the best I've ever known 😊.

@davidfarrell7318 Жыл бұрын

i loved the position you had the camera at.

@chrislaarman7532 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing (parts 1 & 2). It hadn't occurred to me yet that this network is more than the (not included) line to the top of the Brocken. Felled trees: I seem to remember from a documentary (in German) by NDR on forestry that emergency fellings had been performed to prevent further proliferation of a beetle.

@paulhendry16 Жыл бұрын

I live near this area, I walk in these hills often and am a frequent user of the railway. The journey in part 2 should be through a dense forest for most of the trip. It all should look like the small portion at the 50 minute section. The forest has been devastated during the last 5 years or so by infestation of the Borkenkiefer - a small beetle that lives on the sap of the trees and eventually kills the tree. The scope of the devastation is mind boggling, the immense forest has all but disappeared.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@paulhendry16 Thank you, that was interesting to read.

@mariacristinacardosomapell9134 9 ай бұрын

Parabéns pelos vídeos, adorei viajar com vocês. Saudações, aqui do Brasil.

@Timsvideochannel1 9 ай бұрын

Obrigado por viajar comigo, estou filmando mais episódios enquanto digito isso. Atenciosamente. Tim.

@Too519 Жыл бұрын

and some great whistle blowing

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Those engines are fitted with proper whistles.

@Timsvideochannel1 9 ай бұрын

Obrigado por viajar comigo, estou filmando mais episódios enquanto digito isso. Atenciosamente.

@panikrystyna1 Жыл бұрын

Witaj, Tim. Fantastycznie sfilmowałeś zwrotnicę. Mały szczegół a cieszy.😃

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Cześć, miło jest uchwycić małe rzeczy, takie jak punkty operacyjne 😊.

@BaluDerBaer933 Жыл бұрын

Fantastikowski! 😅

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@BaluDerBaer933 I'm pleased you enjoyed it 😊.

@neilforbes416 Жыл бұрын

36:18 *Sorge* - There's a worrying place! LOL (The word "Sorge", in verb form, "Sorgen", means "to worry, or be concerned with or about somebody or something).

@whizgranny6203 Жыл бұрын

And Elend means misery!

@top40researcher31 Жыл бұрын

@@whizgranny6203 and forgetting verrückt neil would know that word is in english lol

@viviennewest1867 Жыл бұрын

First time for me. Love trip though the mountains. Do you have a video during the warmer weather, like to see the sun and all the vegetation in full bloom. This trip makes me put on warm as it will be winter in Australia soon.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, this was my first visit to East Germany, it was January and very cold. I liked what I saw so much that I'm almost certain to return, most likely in early Spring next year for the Dresden Steam Festival. I have many more videos to upload from this trip, some filmed after a heavy snowfall. Winter in Australia isn't too bad, although being a big country the temperature varies enormously, I've felt very cold at times in Melbourne whereas the Daintree Rainforest is warm all year round, one of the hottest places I've ever visited. I live in England where spring has arrived, lambs are enjoying new life, the flowers are in bud and there is warmth in the air. I'm sure an Australian winter is preferable to a cold, wet English winter.

@krisiicc14 Жыл бұрын

Hello Tim,good video ,again.Do you know,who was made that demolation in wood,I think there is national park...

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I think the areas where trees have been felled are best described as harvesting, because new fast growing trees will be planted to replace those felled. I looked on the internet for more information, as is often the case Wikipedia publish one of the best articles, please click on this link to learn more - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_National_Park

@krisiicc14 Жыл бұрын

I was here twenty years ago,and now looks like asteorid was fly and down here.In my country never done that ,in national park Greetings from,Latvia,Riga.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@krisiicc14Hello, it's nice hear from Latvia, a country I hope to visit one day, one of my customers employs a number of people from Latvia and they tells me it is a beautiful place. Some of the damage to the woodland in the Harz national Park was caused by disease and some of the trees were grown to be harvested. I looked on the internet to find more information and I found this video which explains what is happening - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ia6VermUuMXIqWg.html

@maikerlein76 8 ай бұрын

Technisch und inhaltlich schöne Aufnahmen, auch wenn es erschreckend ist, was hier im Harz mittlerweile dem Borkenkäfer zum Opfer gefallen ist! 😱😫 Das sind ja quadratkilometer große Landstriche, wo kein Baum mehr steht und man sich vorkommt, wie bei "Mad Max". Eigenartigerweise sieht es woanders viel besser aus; im Thüringer Wald gibt es längst nicht so große Kahlschlagflecken. Es scheint also auch ein genetisches Problem mit den Baumarten zu sein, das es mancherorts so große Schäden durch den Borkenkäfer gibt und anderswo nicht.

@Timsvideochannel1 8 ай бұрын

Hallo, ich freue mich, dass Sie die Ansichten interessant fanden. Der Schaden des Borkenkäfers hat Waldgebiete verwüstet, die vor 5 oder 10 Jahren noch ganz anders ausgesehen haben müssen. Hoffentlich erholt sich die Gegend schnell.

@Han-wh5ie Жыл бұрын

Een retour Drei Annen Hohne-Eisfelder Talmühle is voor de fan mogelijk zelfs interessanter dan een retour Drei Annen Hohne-Brocken en nog goedkoper ook ! De mooiste tijd was overigens kort na de Wende. Nog geen commercieel bedrijf, nog geen busladingen toeristen. Opvallend ook de ontbossingen die inmiddels hebben plaatsgevonden met als voordeel een mooi uitzicht voor de reiziger.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hallo, bedankt voor de informatie, ik heb zo genoten van mijn bezoek dat ik van plan ben terug te keren om het hele Harz-spoorwegsysteem te zien

@Han-wh5ie Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Good intention , Tim (I visited the Eastern Harzregion in the period 1990-2017 about 30 times)

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@Han-wh5ie Wow, that's a lot of visits, I bet you have seen some changes over the years.

@Han-wh5ie Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Indeed. But the most charming period was in the beginning.

@AG-D647 Жыл бұрын

Hello Tim Thank you for the great ride. very nice. 👍🏻 Did you also film the Selketalbahn? Best regards

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride. Sadly I was unable to film the Selketalbahn, although I did visit seven narrow gauge railways in East Germany as part of this tour. I will upload videos showing these railways as time permits, hopefully at least on a week for the next few months. I was so impressed with what I saw of the Harz Railways, that I know I will visit again to ride and with a bit of luck film the whole system.

@AG-D647 Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 yes, the harz and its railways are always worth a trip. okay, then maybe the next time you visit the Selketalbahn. keep it up and best regards

@silviomonsalve Жыл бұрын

Que desforestacion tan braba😂😢😮

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Los árboles están siendo atacados por un escarabajo, muy triste 😢

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

All is not as it appears, a little beetle is responsible for killing many of the trees. Please read this article for more information - en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background

@librarian16 Жыл бұрын

An interestiing journey on a dismal day. Does the line have any non-tourist traffic, either passenger or freight? why, on some sections of track,the sleepers look a bit like a succession ofroman numerals?

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Fortunately the sun came out for most of the rest of this tour, we even had deep snow for some trips. This railway including the train I was one are regular service trains that are used by both locals and tourists. The line is also used by battery electric trams that run onto the regular city tram systems, along with Diesel railcars that fill the timetable gaps between steam trains. There is also some freight, usually standard gauge waggons carried on special narrow gauge waggons. The "V" shaped sleepers are fabricated in steal and are becoming more common on secondary lines and some mountain railways. I believe they are less prone to creeping on softer ground, tight curves and sections of track where trains are likely to be braking hard.

@librarian16 Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Thank you

@nicholasroberts6954 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, to a non-railway officionado, like myself, what is it with the angled, V -pattern sleepers ? Some alternate mechanism for dynamic load spreading where the underlying track bed isn't 100% i.e. boggy ground or land subject to mild subsidence ? Would someone kindly explain its function.

@martinmackenny Жыл бұрын

If you mean the Y-shaped sleepers (like 1:55 - 2:55), they are used in parts of the track (both narrow gauge and normal gauge) where it is necessary to improve the transverse stability of the track against displacement. They are used in sharper turns so that the track does not tend to slide outwards from the curve. Especially if locomotives and wagons with a longer wheelbase, which tend to "straighten" the curve, often travel on it. Otherwise, they are made of steel profiles and are called Y-sleepers.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, thank you Martin Mackenny, I agree with your answer as does this article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hello Nicholas, your comment re: V2 Bombs has disappeared. I looked on the internet for an answer, I didn't find a definitive answer although there is mention of the railway transporting workers and raw materials. Some of what I read was quite disturbing, especially the number of people (mostly Polish slaves) who died building the bombs.

@nicholasroberts6954 Жыл бұрын

Happy days of censorship for Mr and Mrs Woke at the You Tube redaction/brain softening department, who appear to be unable to stomach historical fact, let alone reality ! Ridiculous really that you can locate and read on-line articles about things like this us using one part of the Google Empire but can't make reference to them on here - another part of Empire Google !

@nicholasroberts6954 Жыл бұрын

I would think that the transport of 4,500 12.5 tonne missiles over the two year period from late 1943 to mid 1945, on something with a track width not much wider than that of the Festiniog railway, would surely do some damage to the track bed. I am amazed that the completed missiles lashed to flat-bed cars were able to negotiate the curves. But obviously they did. Unless, of course the original track had been replaced with a wider guage for wartime use. I understand that whilst camp Dora/Mittelwerk was turned into a museum in the 1990s (With the buillding previously used as the crematorium turned into the museum shop !) evidence of the railway sidings and the spur that connected to this railway to the underground factoryhas been lost/concealed. . . . . There is evidence in the preserved parts of the museum site of a further separate even narrower guage rail system that ran into the underground tunnel system of the factory and joined it to the sidings and spur that connected with the track you have filmed. 25,000 died in over the short period of operation and its reported that more died making the V2 here than in the explosions it caused when it was used to target the UK and liberated Europe. There's a cost/benefit ratio that's not easily forgotten.

@neilforbes416 Жыл бұрын

Those V-shaped sleepers seem to be prevalent on European railway systems!

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

They are becoming a common sight on secondary lines, those that I've seen have all been fabricated as a welded steel structure.

@neilforbes416 Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Hi, Tim! I've seen these type of sleepers in a number of your videos of Euro railway lines. They're getting to be a very familiar sight.

@top40researcher31 Жыл бұрын

@@neilforbes416 this would be a trip of a life time if you went on this

@top40researcher31 Жыл бұрын

@@neilforbes416 they look stright to me

@neilforbes416 Жыл бұрын

@@top40researcher31 Taka a closer look around the 15-minute mark. The regular-type sleepers appear later in the video.

@fritzkoch668 Жыл бұрын

1979 war da noch viel Wald und in Sorge oder Elend eine Zug kreuzung!!!

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Mit weniger Bäumen ist es heute einfacher, den Zug kommen zu sehen

@nicholasroberts6954 Жыл бұрын

@16:00, onwards.Crikey, somebodies have being doing the forestry plantation management

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hello Nicholas, the deforestation was referred to as harvesting, because new fast growing trees will be planted in their place. This article goes some way to explaining how nature is managed in the Harz National Park - en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background

@JohnBlo76 Жыл бұрын

Я думаю, что все эти деревья срубили для того, чтобы топить паровоз, на котором едет автор видео. И чем больше рейсов он совершает, тем меньше леса остаётся по дороге.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Привет, я путешествовал поездом из Англии в Германию, и причина, по которой деревья умирают, заключается в том, что на них нападает жук, который живет в коре дерева, они не убиваются человеком или действиями человека, хотя большинство были посажены человеком около 40 лет назад.

@JohnBlo76 Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Привет, да, я понял. Даже посмотрел видео по теме. Из-за этих срубленных деревьев ваше видео пробрело неповторимый колорит а-ля Сайлент Хилл.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@JohnBlo76 Я нахожу интересным, что так много людей прокомментировали деревья, когда я впервые увидел пейзаж, я был удивлен увиденным. Я рад, что прочитал о лесе и о том, почему так много его исчезло. Я видел похожие пейзажи в Новой Зеландии и Словакии, оба они вызваны естественными погодными явлениями, а не болезнями.

@1rotelaterne Жыл бұрын

Nordhausen - Eisfelder Talmühle - Drei Annen Hohne over 30 Years Old Video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbqogZl0xM7LiJs.html

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the link, I enjoyed watching the Video.

@1rotelaterne Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Thank you for the aktuell Cab Ride Video!

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@1rotelaterne I'm glad you enjoyed it, even on a wet and windy day, a ride on this train is a rewarding experience.

@nancgeorge4537 Жыл бұрын

What is the average speed

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

No more than 30 kph.

@winco68 Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Has the speed limit been reduced? It was still under DR when I visited in ‘92 and the speed limit was 50 kph.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@winco68I looked on the internet for an answer, Wikipedia states that the current maximum speed is 40 kph, which would suggest the limit has dropped since you visited in 92.

@thanhphamxuan2446 Жыл бұрын

Đường sắt ở đây tàu chạy tốc độ không cao có vẻ chạy chậm hơn ở vn

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Những tuyến đường sắt này không bao giờ được xây dựng cho tốc độ, chúng được xây dựng để phục vụ cộng đồng, kết nối các khu vực dân cư nhẹ với các ga chính nơi người dân và hàng hóa có thể tham gia các chuyến tàu khổ tiêu chuẩn trên mạng lưới quốc gia. Những tuyến đường sắt khổ hẹp này thậm chí có thể vận chuyển các toa xe khổ tiêu chuẩn trên các toa xe vận chuyển đặc biệt. Tôi không nghĩ rằng đường sắt của Việt Nam được xây dựng cho tốc độ, làm cho chúng trở thành một cách tốt đẹp để tận hưởng vùng nông thôn tuyệt vời. These railways were never built for speed, they were built to serve communities, connecting lightly populated areas to the mainline stations where people and freight could join standard gauge trains on the national network. These narrow gauge railways could even transport standard gauge waggons on special transporter waggons. I don't think Vietnam's railways were built for speed either, making them a nice way to enjoy the wonderful countryside.

@davidpanton3192 Жыл бұрын

This video loses nothing from being played at 2x speed. Sacrilege, I know.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I tried watching at 2 times speed and I agree with you, watching at 2 x speed takes very little away from the video watching experience and you gain a little over 30 minutes to do something else with.

@roberttapken1139 Жыл бұрын

Missing trees looked like a bomb went off. Whole forest GONE, Shame

@karstent.66 Жыл бұрын

This is an area where they use the wood for furnitures, producing paper. And unfortuantely, China has bought some trees as well. Yet being a forest specialist in Germany requires quite a few years of learning. And, this cutted trees will be replacedd by young trees shortly..

@genenonya8458 Жыл бұрын

Hunting stands and tree stumps, not so good!!

@genenonya8458 Жыл бұрын

@Chuck Kirchner Then there hunting towers?

@beverlyhills4k-dq6hu Жыл бұрын

Печально когда убивают природу вырубают леса , ужасная картина за окном 😢

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Привет, многие деревья погибли в результате болезней, другие были выращены для сбора урожая, они будут заменены новыми деревьями. Это видео может помочь объяснить, что происходит - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ia6VermUuMXIqWg.html

@beverlyhills4k-dq6hu Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 дай Бог чтобы сажали новые деревья 🌲

@trainrover Жыл бұрын

might clearcutting be a recent phenomenon thereabouts?

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, the trees had recently been cut down to contain the spread of a beetle that was killing the spruce trees

@trainrover Жыл бұрын

yikes! plus a tree marking I had momentarily thought I happened to be spying early on flashed infestation? across my mind

@hiper59 Жыл бұрын

Landscape of desolation, I hope they will have the intelligence to plant other trees

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

There is more to this situation than might be realized at first sight. Please click on this link to learn more about what is happening to the trees in the Harz Mountains - en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background

@hiper59 Жыл бұрын

@@Timsvideochannel1 Thank you for this very interesting site, fortunately there are actions to regenerate nature.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

@@hiper59 Hi, I've seen similar deforestation in New Zealand where the term harvest is used to describe what is happening, a few years later the new trees planted on the barren landscape transform it once again into a young forest. I am guessing the same thing will happen to the landscape shown in this video, I hope they plant trees that are resistance to the habits of the destructive beetles that wreaked havoc in the area.

@UKOnation Жыл бұрын

I am really shocked, how the robbers are deforesting the landscape! I know this area looking somehow different. [ ... ] As you can easily see, you should go nearly the whole way through a dense forest. Where is it? If the weather is dry this summer, the nice looking moss, blueberrys, water needing orchids and most of the small animals live like salamanders and newts will die and even it´s wet, it is too much area in hot sunlight. It´s horrible what´s happening today.

@thorsteinj Жыл бұрын

Most of it was probably planted 50 years ago exactly to be cut down all at once. Industrial forestry, it’s the easiest and cheapest. It should really not be allowed but be done in smaller segments/phases every 5-10 years to minimize the environmental impact. We have the same issue in Norway. Nature will always come back but even so we don’t have to treat it badly.

@subaruiv Жыл бұрын

The causes of the death of many millions of Spruce trees is due to the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) a small bark beetle.

@thorsteinj Жыл бұрын

@@subaruiv I noticed other mention this being the cause in this area. Nevertheless, a mono cultural forest (all identical trees) is not particularly resistant to beetles or diseases. Meaning if it starts the only way to stop it is using the firehose approach and cut it all down. Hopefully they’ll take a different approach when replanting this forest. Beautiful area, very sort of mystical, drove through it years ago coming from Magdeburg across those plains then climbing into this much more varied landscape. Then suddenly a steam train came across a bridge and now I’ve seen it from the other angle!

@UKOnation Жыл бұрын

@@subaruiv Yes, that´s true. But be shure, it´s not the cause to cut all the trees. If you walk through a spruce-forest, you can easily see, which tree is dying and which are relatively stable in life. And what you can see too, is the fact, that the trees in most cases have just two to four years of needles (leaves?) on itself. But it should be up to seven years. The same thing you can detect at pines. Some of them just have two years needles on it and it should be more. It doesn´t matter if you are on a mountainside or at flat landscape, it´s everywhere the same. Maybe they don´t like aluminium and other chemtrails? The emission of NO and NO2 was strictly reduced since ~1980. So this cannot be the reason for them to die today.

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

There is more to this story, please click on this link to learn more - en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background

@danghita497 Жыл бұрын

until I watched the documentary I was convinced that only in Romania there was a robbery of cutting down forests, now it can be seen that in more civilized states there is the same process of cutting down trees without any logic!

@catrachocolo Жыл бұрын

They cut those trees because of damage from storms and bark beetle infection. The forests in the Harz have been suffering these last years.

@danghita497 Жыл бұрын

@@catrachocolo ok, these cuts must be very painful! I honestly suffer a lot when I see this disaster!

@BaluDerBaer933 Жыл бұрын

Tolle Mitfahrt, vielen Dank! Aber die Gleise sind ja teilweise in einem schlechten Zustand. Wird da in nächster Zeit noch etwas saniert?

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hallo, ich freue mich, dass Ihnen die Fahrt gefallen hat. Der größte Teil der Strecke war in gutem Zustand und es gab Anzeichen dafür, dass in naher Zukunft weitere Gleise ersetzt werden.

@sellier-bellot22 Жыл бұрын

There was a big economy forest area too , the ride was smooth ! cheers. 🥸

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the ride. The trees were devastated by a beetle, please click on this link to learn more - en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background

@robertcoleman4861 Жыл бұрын

Hi Tim, What a miserable day but it was still a nice journey, I have never seen tree logging on a massive scale like that cheers bob. " PS WHEN ARE YOU COMING ON DOWN".🦘🐨🦈🐊🤠🍺

@Timsvideochannel1 Жыл бұрын

Hello Robert, sometimes it’s wet, cold and pouring with rain, later on in this tour it turned to snow, I'm really looking forward to uploading those videos in a few week’s time, the scenery was awesome. I was coming down under later this year, but my youngest daughter has informed us that she is getting married when I was planning my trip and the railways I was going to visit are only running all together within a one month period of time 2 or 3 times a year, so unfortunately unless something happens I'm not going to be able to make it this year. That logging wasn't just the work of man, most of it was to contain and outbreak caused by a beetle - en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiative/background