All Aboard For The Belgian Steam Gala 2018 At Mariembourg and Treignes Part 1
The date is Saturday 22nd September 2018 and we were invited by some Belgian friends to stay with them and go to the annual Festival Vapeur/Stoomfestival. ( everything is in dual text Walloonish French and Flemish Dutch). So after a sorrowful day visiting the Somme War Grave sites in nearby France the day before, we had a day of escapism in the Ardennes.
We start Part 1 at Mariembourg station which is the 3 Valleys junction. It has an engine shed in working order which houses some on- going projects. The preserved line travels roughly east for 10 miles to Treignes where there is a vast Museum containing many locos both steam and electric/diesel. In this film we see 0-6-0T AD05, 0-6-0T Tkh 5387 ( a bit like a USA T) and the wonderful Polish 2-8-2T Tkt 48 87 - painted in the wonderfully named shade of Fantasy Blue! You may notice the lack of orange Hi Viz , steel spikes, barbed wire, H & S policy documents floating around - because the Belgians kind of like being laid - back, almost Hygge . I include a brief shot of the fabulous Green Pacific in the Museum - there are some YT films of this loco in action in the 90's but it was crippled by leakages and poor steaming so its's in the museum. Also the derelict Giesl - ejector chimneyed Kriegslok in the siding .The active locos have great individual sounds and very loud whistles.ENJOY! Vive le vapeur ! Filmed on my new Panasonic HC VXF1 - not a bad internal 5.1 mic . Sorry Canon, blown you out.....
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Created by Michalis Gkinos & Spyros Papathomopoulos.
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