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John Wallington
Canada
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Cab Ride on VIA No. 1 "The Canadian" Ottawa to North Bay.
Cab Ride on VIA No. 1 "The Canadian", Ottawa to North Bay on CP Rails Carleton Place, Chalk River and North Bay Subs.
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Train 405 Mac Yard to Lindsay and return March 28 1990.
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Train 405 Mac Yard to Lindsay and return March 28 1990.
Cab ride on VIA No 1 "The Canadian", Montreal to Ottawa.
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In 1989 I was a Brakeman at VIA Rail Canada. I was returning to CN at the change of card and decided to take a Busman's Holiday before my pass was revoked on returning to CN. This video was made from the cab of No 1 from Montreal Central Station to Ottawa. There was track work going on around Coteau and the train was routed via the freight track, a very unusual move for a passenger train.
Cornwall Street Railway last year of electric operation, 1971
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Digital copy of B&W stills and 8mm movies of the Cornwall Street Railway's last year of electric operations in 1971. CSR was taken over by Canadian National in April 1971 and dieselised in August of that year with 2 modified MLW S-4s.
A Beaver visited our back yard this morning.
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A flat tailed lawnmower was trimming the grass in our back yard this morning. If I could just persuade him to stay around for the summer.
I would love to take this trip in a train cab.
Really enjoying these videos! , keep those postings!
the fourth burst of horn at crossings is stupid, the short third burst should be long and cover the crossing. if someone doesn't hear the third horn does it matter. they are gone
The 4th blast is not stupid. It is Rule 14L (2 long 1 short and 1 long) which reads as follows, "At least 1/4 mile of a mile from every public crossing at grade to be prolonged or repeated according to the speed of the train until the crossing is occupied by the engine or cars. This is the UCOR wording which was in effect when the video was made. If you don't follow the rules you will be held out of service.
those old geeps sound so good
love it when they can't get a hold of RTC. typical. I heard that so many times on a scanner
Enjoyed the video very much!! It brings back wonderful memories. In 1985 I rode across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver and back aboard VIA Rails Canadian. That trip was wonderful!! The wilds of Ontario, going along the north shore of Lake Superior , the prariries of central canada , the Canadian rockies, kicking horse pass , the spiral tunnels, rogers pass , the Frasier and Thompson river canyons , it was beautiful !!! Loved every bit of it !!! Greetings from connecticut.
I have to ask, what was that siren or alert going off as the commuter train scooted past?
Could you identify the location in the video by giving me the time in the time-line.
LOL I love the gratuitous power braking.
Thank you.
@johnwallington6127 what year was this taken? Noticed an SD40-2 with 5 inch stripes at 14:17 ... did not expect that as I didn't think they lasted as late as this (must be between '87 and '90 as the F40s showed up in 86-87 then and then the last VIA through here was Jan '90) Also, they were really bombing through Bonfield siding hahaha If you have more of this I would love to see it. I worked out of North Bay briefly and my grandfather was conductor from '39 to '83 out of North Bay too.
Unfornunately with the same trip out of Montreal thats all the video I have of this area, It was shot in the fall of 1989, I worked out of CN Toronto South and had bid VIA for the last time. My VIA pass was about to be cancelled when I returned to CN at the fall change of card so I thought I'd get some miles on it.
If only CN left the tracks in Lindsay and have a shortline operate it
VIA Rail F40PH-2's was good during the days. I prefer FP9's, FPA-2's, FP7's. I would go to VIA Rail #1 after lunch. 12:25pm. Right at Woodroffe Avenue bridge. Standing. Waiting. Then headlight coming. First Merivale Road bridge. Then a minute later, Woodroffe Ave bridge. Taking a leisure 60 mph to the next signal......"Bells Corners". Then "Bells Junction" & diverged to the CP Carleton Place Sub. Mile 8.1. All the way to Carleton Place station. (Now Coleman Street) Thank you for the opportunity to relive the memory on VIA Rail.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cp crew?
Yes, it was a CP crew.
I moved to the Ottawa area after the Montreal-North Bay section of the Canadian was discontinued. Now with the line itself gone, this will be the only way I can experience it. I was fortunate enough as a teenager in the early 1980’s to take The Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver when it was still on the CPR alignment. I had a chance to take a cab ride from Calgary to Golden, but had to turn it down because I was travelling with an elderly relative and they would worry that I missed the train! Memories of riding in the vestibule with the top half of the dutch door open, smelling the fresh air of the Rockies, hearing the burble of the headwaters of the Thompson, spiral tunnels from the diner, prairie thunderstorm while whipping past grain elevators on the prairies with an 16 car summer consist (hard to believe it was that long!). Trip of a lifetime.
I could have been your trainman, baggageman or asst. conductor on that trip!
@@bobjohnson205 well since that line is now a trail, hopefully the trail can keep the door open for the rail to be reinstated. A big maybe, if demand requires
Great video. I worked as a brakeman/conductor out of North Bay in the eighties. Worked 1 and 2 a few times.
The way a video should be shot. No geewiz comments by some railfan foamer; riding the cab, like it's his very first time on a train!
Thanks for the comment. I was at the time and am a Railfan. There was no owing and awing as I had hired on by then and cabrides were nothing new, I even got paid for having cabrides!
How much, if any of the line is still there? Where does it end? Also, love the stories you guys are talking about!!
I believe the line east of Uxbridge has been removed.
Hey John, I live in Blackwater, I can confirm the tracks are gone, east from Uxbridge to Lindsay. NO rails left in Lindsay at all as far as I know. But this is really cool footage coming thru Blackwater, it's a shame you shut the camera off just before getting to the side by side bridges just north east out of Blackwater.. Those bridges are one one of my favourite spots. I moved here in 95 and grew up on the trail, the tracks were pulled up by then, but the water tower base and the platform, and a few little sheds were still there for a few years untill the conservation cleaned it all up. The medium sized shed in Blackwater, to the left, is now situated behind The Brick a Brac, Antique store @ hwy 12 & Blackwater Rd, only a couple hundred meters from where it is in the video. I guess this had to be one of the last handful of trips up this line eh?!! Thanks for sharing!!
I remember going to Carleton Place as a tween. I was wondering if you happen to have more Ottawa to North Bay railway footage? Like the 4 CP crossings on Hwy 17?
Sorry, that's it for that area.
Love the Old CN Turcot Yard the CP RAIL MLWs etc
CN Detector mile 007.7 Uxbridge Subdivision? No Alarms detector out I like seeing old videos of CN.
This is railroading. Love it! Thanks for posting
Throttle swiping, power-braking, and paper authority. What a time to be alive!
Cool CP hotbox detector 👍👍
it's taken decades to spy a train race chez le Canada..! we used to take this summertime from Windsor stn to Sudbury
What a great throw back ride.
I loved the "FRN" and the "GO-Staoppo" Conversations. LOL
So beautiful... We lost so much... and we did it to ourselves. pure idiocy, shortsightedness, and greed.
You can blame Myron Baloney and Bandit Bouchard for a lot of that!
What BOTH railways and the governments did to Canada's railroad infrastructure is absolutely criminal. We've REGRESSED as a nation by allowing the auto industries, hedge funds, and Wall St. to dictate our nation's infrastructure and transportation policies. Aside from the Vietnam war, boomers had it made... and they destroyed it all in the pursuit of endless profits at the expense of our nation's infrastructure. There aren't enough words in the English lexicon to adequately describe how disgusted I am with the people who allowed this to happen.
Do you have any of the bala sub?
No, Sorry.
I remember the budd cars going to stouffville and return
@John Wallington I remember driving up to Lindsay with you to see a couple of cars on the ground at the yard. I don't remember if you had worked the job when it happened. If I recall a rail turned over and the cars were loads of plastic pellets.
Yes John it was our train that went on the ground, on CP trackage. Match stick ties.
Cool video I have watched a few trains on this line over the years nice to see it when it was all intact still
Are those special spring switches at the shops at Mac? I see so many videos of power just running through them not lined up. Great video!
According to "Yard Switches" in the UCOR, yard switches with diamond shaped targets are called "Automatic Switches". They are not spring loaded but you are allowed to trail through improperly lined switches. Under winter conditions you must hand throw an automatic switch before trailing though it.
@@johnwallington6127 Cool information! Thanks!
@@NorthernRailsTrainsInTheNorth they have removed all of them now in the great lakes region, now you have to hand throw all hand throw switches regardless if its automatic yard switch or not
What a cool video!! I took pictures of the work train removing the tracks from Lindsay when I was a kid. I've been at CN for 12 years now, and spent the first 5 years in Mac. It's wild to see the yard in 1990. Similar, but so different. Especially the different yardmasters you had to talk to to get around. "Let YB know we're on York 3." In other words, make sure we have our light lol.
What terminal do you work out of now?
@@johnwallington6127 Oshawa
@@Andycap1001 I didn't think Oshawa was still a terminal. I lived in Pickering when I first hired on Toronto South. I bid to Oshawa a few months later and worked there on and off for the 1st year. I wanted to get on the road board so I bid back to Toronto before the next change of card. Eventually I saw the light and bid to Belleville.
@@johnwallington6127 Not too many of us left in Oshawa compared to the hay day when there were 70+ in the terminal. I spent most of my time at west control, although I pulled my fair share of pins at the hump. Once the bid came up for Oshawa, I was long gone. If I ever get bumped, I'll be heading to Belleville as well. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to Lindsay from Mac? Did you head all the way to Scarborough, and head north from there on the Uxbridge? Seems like it would make for a long day, even if you only had a handful of cars.
@@Andycap1001 In those days Hagerman was a diamond. There were connecting tracks eastbound from the York to get to the Uxbridge west and east.
Any more footage of the Uxbridge Sub?
That's All Folks!
I grew up on the Beachburg Sub. My father was a CN section foreman. Spent a lot of my younger years in Algonquin Park with him between Alice and Brent. Wish I would of had a GoPro back then I would’ve strapped it to the front of the motorcar and got some cool video of Algonquin Park. Most people never got to see the Park like I did. Miss them days. Anyone out there got some old videos of the Beachburg Sub please share them on TH-cam. I would love to see them.
I don’t have videos, but my dad worked for CN for over 30 years, and at one point had a project in Algonquin Park. They set him and my mom and my just born older brother up in a private area of the bunk car (probably a retired diner) so that they could all be together for the month or more that the work would take. This was in the late 1950’s so there were few roads to get in and out. The cook supplied all the food and she said he made the best wild blueberry pie she has ever had. Apparently there were plenty of wild blueberry shrubs along the ROW - those and strawberries grew very well in the cinders left behind by generations of steam engines.
Any railway footage from Sudbury?
Any railway footage shot in Sault Ste. Marie?
Non near Sault Ste Marie.
@@johnwallington6127 What about Sudbury?
@@PatFrenchLeafsFan1 The train got there after dark, thus no video. I do have some from the White River Budd Car.
@@johnwallington6127 Would love to see that again. Awesome trip. I recently watched the TVO "Tripping" documentary. Amazingly our trip was almost twenty years ago.
the last time I'd seen that branch to the Sault, speed had been reduced to some ridiculous limit of 15MPH -- this had hurt to see some years after customarily having had to change trains at Sudbury (I'd always believed Ottawa Quebec City though what with its creepily modern overhaul of some UGH ridiculously starchy station)
John, first off incredible video! Thanks for uploading this. Did you ever shoot photos of freight trains on the Uxbridge?
No, I just rode them.
Must not have had much of a train!!
All trains to Lindsay were small at the end. That's why they closed the line.
This is bringing back a lot of memories growing up in the upper valley. Just amazing and heartbreaking to see. Hope to see more of your videos.
Don't really have much more cab rides.
Great video. I subscribed to your channel as well!
Awesome video! Do you recall what the units were on 405?
The lead unit was CN 4111 not sure what the trailing unit was.
I 1st took "The Canadian" from Ottawa-Vancouver in June 1964 from the Old Union Station. A month before in May I took a ride in a brand new coach-lounge straight from Canadian Car Co. There were some extra screws on the window sill beside my seat. It was being taken down to Montreal to be put on "The Super Continental" that afternoon. My very 1st train trip by myself was in a Parlor Car behind steam in 1955 Maxville-Ottawa. Since then I have traveled over 250,000km mostly here in Canada 2 yrs in a row I went Vancouver-Halifax & return & in 2000 even went all the way to Sydney,NS. I also spent a month in May 1987 riding trains all over Australia & in June 1990 I got a 2 wk Brit Rail Pass & rode all over UK 1st class. Yes I'm a "train-a-holic" I lived in Almonte,ON 1957-62. Sadly the rails "The Canadian" used to travel on through there have been ripped up & made into a walking path. Cheers from Vancouver.
Smoking in the engineer's Cab.. Yup.. 1989 for sure! I think the no smoking policy and smoke dectors were install around 1991.....Memories are a tad fuzzy...
"notch eight, suh......if you please. The sound is most pleasing, what?"
When my dad retired from cn in the 90's he told me that they wanted to take his train pass. No way he said . Lol when I took a VIA with my Mom two yrs back she still had his pass - buying the ticket was something out of the ordinary for the ticket takers. My friends dad engineered for VIA got to ride in the cab . One of my great memories
How they know want to stop if i was VIA driver i was passing all stations
It's on the schedule.. :)
Look at that, no dynamic brakes. Back when you had to run without a crutch.
I took the Canadian in 1983, 1985 and 1989, and know one of thsoe 3 we went through Ottawa Chalk River to Sdbury (the others via Toronto) and always wondered which year it was. Now I know it was 1989 thanks to your video ! The last year Canada had transcontinental service *and your video is one of the last ones since colour of leaves indicate early October and schedule change was at end of october back then.
Hello Would you give me permission to use this video for Train Simulator? I made a VIA Rail horn on my YT channel but I would like to do more
If I haven't already answered, yes you can use it.
Great video! Do you have any more footage?