I Love This. So Simple. So Green.

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THE VANISHING COAL MINES OF THE PINGXI VALLEY.

Notice the simplicity of the pointwork (Turnouts... Switches). Notice how the aaggons are tipped. Notice the little locomotive. Notice how green everything is there!


https://youtu.be/du-n0E3i648

Another very interesting industrial system set in mountains!

https://youtu.be/8imfX3kZA9Q

And this one...Now in China. The unfortunate incident at the end is rather amusing... Couldn't be helped I suppose.


https://youtu.be/qvq9k6t4aUY

A little taste of what life would have been like around your way and mine a few generations ago! Back when I was still caving, I went down a few old mines that hadn't been worked for a century or two - they were way more frightening than any of the natural caves; all super rickety, just like the ones in the videos (but without sparking pantographs!)

It looks like they could do with an expert track layer over there - maybe you could pay them a visit and give them a little help!

The funny thing is I was up north recently (Wales I mean) and I ended up working on track on a garden railway. I eased the curves on an SM32 line and for the first time in two years (They have a battery driven horse drawn tram) I managed to get both the tram and the track fixed. I hope it is still working as track outdoors does expand and contract so curves can kink etc. Next time I go up I can check to see how things are going.

Sounds cool. Do you have a little network of contacts for your train engineering, then? I'd love something like that, I share a bit of computer code on-line, but I don't really have any hobbies that I get to share with anyone IRL.

You reminded me, too, of our local MES railway; I haven't been for ages, but Google says that it's still running...

I am in touch with a man who runs (With others) a large model railway club. He wants me to join and has even said I can join without paying until I have an income. I have been two or three times and it is nide, but I am a little nurvous. I find myself getting sudden hot flushes due to nurves which are embarissing, so I don't go. Also, it is on the outskirts of a city...

Someone I am friendly with owns two locomotives. A steam locomotive and a diesel. He is hoping to get a railway line open. The locos once worked on the line he hopes to restore.

Generally I have shyed away from groups these days as I find I am a but nurvey around people.

Yes, I must admit, travelling to a city would put me off, too. I was just thinking out loud really; I've always found in my past work that engineers were usually much easier for me to get along with - it's a bit of a stereotype, I know, but a lot of them seem to have a touch of autism traits about them.

I have done a little work on steam railways, and I worked trains on the main lines for 9 years as a conductor (Guard).