Who should pay GEZ
, now and come back some time at his expense. The selection of assets is large. In this case it was BR Alpha, the most intellectual of all educational television station, with probably the most depressing of all television programs which adheres tenaciously for years on almost all third-rail romance. That the emphasis on the special theme "China's steam trains" for us of course to "China" and not "steam trains" is understood, is self-interest, however, is still rather questionable.
The special broadcast for the last operating steam locomotives in honestly held is nostalgic. Even the days of old, umweltverpestenden steam trains are numbered. China wants to modernize, the trains will be replaced with better diesel cars. The "diesel locomotives of QJ," we are told intrusive, "which is ironically with" progress "can be translated, unfortunately become a victim of progress." Fortunately, you get some of the steaming, hissing monsters as a museum line in the far north of China. Reason enough for a trip China'm probably a tourist team full of retired and miniature railway (probably members of the Eisenbahnromatik clubs, and there's really!), Sitting in old restored passenger coaches on uncomfortable wooden benches, wrapped in hats and several layers faded clothes, because it is there in Inner Mongolia It is not only scenic but also ugly fucking cold.
Yes, China may also be some deserted, ugly produce landscapes that are abruptly but for a handful of people to the postcard-perfect if somewhere rusted tracks promise the potential emergence of a train. Kilometer-long rail business lolling by open lengths, which run in the foothills of the Gobi desert, karst hills, exploited coal areas, stained with dull dull gray and beige everywhere dominant. The few trees and shrubs seems to have capitulated's line up and bare the stark picture. Once an empty field, so dusty as the rest of the area, another pile of dirt. If you are lucky, scurry out a few times over tufts of dried-steppe. Inside, you sit with a transfigured view. The highlights are gravel pits and coal mines, where ever engages a special stop in order to "half an hour" at the noisy bustle of freight cars being loaded with coal trains "delight" in front of dull sunset. It is in travel mood, the front is eagerly shoveled coal into the fire. The platoon leader laughs from his crummy job well-drawn face on the bizarre interests of the Germans. The wagons, which are mostly drawn from multiple engines give material for uninspired slurred comments like "In the wake of mountains, [small pause for] Dart around us. [Big dramatic pause] Fallera. "In a tone than even the conductor himself would have died.
Then another stop. You stand for hours in the middle of nowhere to wait for a rushing train, which are possibly even older, more beautiful could defying than their own, the frigid cold, after all, one would like to win a lasting memory, preferably of course with cameras and camcorders to later remained at home love to get bored with it. And when the train finally behind a bare beige rock, remained well after the redundancies as step-like coal-trist, is being evaporated is that leaves the heart under the leftover 80-year-cable pattern knit sweaters of every true railway with affordable rates. Since even the silent speaker, who will we really tried to get bored heruntergeleierten words, make the romance and philosophy behind the show palatable to a devotional moment.
One highlight follows another the next, because you can pull the cars not only for locomotives can, but those also stretch still further to the end of the train, with the snout to the back, what the whole train, like telling it to us than we would have made a great invention, incredible, "flexible" does. For the more freely we can thus namely "forward or backward" position. About uncommented Settings from the train that dragged himself puffing at a bend is unspectacular, but eventually even philosophize: "Backward is forward forward is backward.."
Images of the steam railway, which, as a special treat, drive over a bridge, which crosses a bleak, empty, beige level. A viaduct, as we explained the spokesman, which is considered particularly picturesque location. One may not believe it. Images of the steam train at a railroad crossing, the sheep piled up on the embankment grubby as the rest of the landscape. Images of the Damfbahn that goes into a tunnel and on the other side comes out. And because it was something quite Special is, you are left with the camera still on the tunnel mouth, as the train rushed past long ago. It smokes and smokes for minutes from the tunnel before the camera pans back to the pulling away from the train, in the background the silhouette of a large coal power plant. are the picturesque impressions are many. American commentator irritates you from here, as you would expect, all sorts of corny jokes over the siding or the personification of the steam locomotive. So the journey continues
days. What happens beyond poorly insulated train window, is probably not interesting because of the limited view by dense clouds of steam, unless of course, is somewhere just once a coal tender charged (or of same is stolen again), preferably naturally moved from ancient, rusty mining equipment, the people in Germany probably most, knows "from his childhood days." "If you have a lot of luck. This offers the tourists back all sorts of motives for price suspicious photos and video, for which one is once again a special stop. The fact that it's basically just to ridicule, has no explanation here. Meanwhile, also the Chinese television to the stupidity of various Teutonic hear and travels with the train. But perhaps also because of the historical moment: to be the last trip of the regular steam train (their letters and numbers existing long term is to us unasked been explained in detail) before they may only serve as a heritage railway for cash joyful tourists. A special fan in the train has proposed to consider because of the memorable trip to the railway but the caps that bear many of them, but then sees a saying that it would be a bit too much of a good. But the local reporter provides a traditional song for harmonious conclusion to the journey gene sunset, mitlallen where even the Germans, even though they know neither the text nor the melody.
The conclusion is indeed in favor of the steam engine as a whole but rather sadly: "It was probably childhood dream of all of us to draw such a steaming behemoth once himself. Tame the dragon. With the departure of the last regular steam railway in the world now is an era to an end. "We can be happy that we are still left to get some of these tracks for the Museum line. And of course the countless photos in albums and movies such as railway romance. Rarely has get something so trashy served with such seriousness. A gem of bad entertainment.
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