Steam (and more) on Youtube Video

Steam videos on the world wide web? Quite a few these days, you can readily check out a small sample on this site. Like it or loathe it, YouTube is here to stay and like all those internet 'Free lunches' it is not always very digestible. Anarchic would be my best description of Youtube, most fans of it would probably not want it otherwise, but it makes it very difficult and frustrating to find gems among the dross. Please submit suitable items (not China, please!) for inclusion here. My initial intention is that this page should highlight unusual items rather than seek out top quality video action, since most 'overseas steam' videos are posted by non-enthusiasts with toy camcorders. And by and large unless they are a significant representation of a particular country, I won't provide unpaid advertisements! This first list has been thrown together in a hurry, I haven't had time to watch every one here, if you spot some real crap, tell me and I'll delete it. But please add a few good links of your own to replace them. Thanks.

India - updated 26th February 2008

Brazil - updated 5th March 2008, Italy added 26th March 2008, Turkey added 15th April 2008

Indonesia - updated 10th May 2008

Australia - added 10th May 2008

Click here for some sample clips
on YouTube from our own DVDs
 on narrow gauge steam 
and stationary steam engines. 

General

See these two clips which are two halves of "Our Gang" in Railroadin', a classic 1929 short with plenty of steam action (added 24th April 2008):

Africa

Angola

Stored steam at Huambo -

Eritrea

Preserved Mallets in action - 

Kenya

5918 leaves the museum for restoration in 2001 -

Zimbabwe

Footplate ride on a 15th -

Footplate ride on a 20th - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5-tHTqUtA 

Volunteer cleaning the fire on a 25NC - 

Americas

Argentina

Bariloche preserved operation -

Esquel (La Trochita) - 

Ferroclub Argentino, Buenos Aires -

Porta's famous 'Argentina' locomotive as vandalised -

RFIRT - 

Brazil

Estrada de Ferro Perus Pirapora - 60cm cement line - this is brilliant (recommended by Steve Mourton, added 3rd March 2008)

ABPF Campinas - 

Steam on the mountains of Minas Gerais -

São João del Rei -

Theresa Christina

Chile

Antofagasta FCAB steam loco -

Cuba

Zafra stuff - 

Ecuador

The steam train from Duran to Alausi - 

Trains on the Devil's Nose -

Paraguay

Extended extract from a documentary -

Asia

China

Not surprisingly, there are very many, too many, clips, just search "steam loco China" or similar! And probably the best quality too. Hours of free entertainment if a little repetitive on the standard gauge at least. Non-stop 'steam porn'! But I do have the excuse to plug our own (steam narrow gauge) clips:

India (updated 26th February 2008)

Darjeeling -

Nilgiri (Ooty) Rack Line -

Delhi Museum Monorail - 

Bollywood at its best - 

Steam in action at Tipong Colliery (added 26th February 2008) -

Indonesia (updated 10th May 2008)

Ambarawa Rack Railway (added 10th May 2008))

Steam in action at Tersana Baru sugar mill - 

Steam in action at Jatibarang sugar mill - 

Steam in action at Olean sugar mill - 

Many clips of Java sugar mill steam locos (added 26th February 2008) -

North Korea

From a 1992 visit  - 

Pakistan

Preserved steam in action in Islamabad - 

Turkey (added 15th April 2008)

Stanier 8F footplate ride - 

Europe

Germany

Trevor Heath recommends this one on the Harz system:

Holland

Keith Chambers recommends a 1954 amateur cine clip (keep the unreal sound OFF):

Italy (added 26th March 2008)

Keith Chambers recommends a 1988 end of steam clip taken at Pistoia:

Poland

Like China there plenty on the Wolsztyn operation, more non-stop 'steam porn'! Keith Chambers recommends this one, search the 'Related Videos' for more of the same.

Australasia

Australia (10th May 2008) 

Another from Trevor Heath. Real Steam in Australia in the 1960s, look for others from this guy!!

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Rob Dickinson

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