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Strictly speaking... this was CP Rail, not VIA. CP had simply leased the VIA units for extra power. CP, like most freight railways of the day, was desperately short of locomotives and paid for their use. From a mechanical standpoint, VIA's F40s are no different from freight locomotives (aside from having HEP generators and a different gearing ratio for higher-speed passenger service) and can certainly be used as such. Could they do it today? If some of VIA's locomotives weren't being used and one of the freight railroads wanted to lease a few, I suppose it would come down to how much money they were willing to pay. The F40PH is fully capable of hauling freight, then and now.

So the VIA engine in the video were used as CP train like if it was some CP F40PH but instead of CP scheme it VIA train but running for CP that rare then and now

Thanks Al! I've generally shied away from doing anything on-camera - most of the talking-head model railroad videos just are a chore to watch. Certainly that 'on camera' persona varies, and if there's some real useful info there, it doesn't really matter. But sometimes... eighteen minutes in, still talking'... holy macaroni, dude, get to the point! My wife actually taught me about the picture-in-picture feature of iMovie. She's very sharp on keeping up to date with digital media - different from my stuff, but I had no idea iMovie could do that. When I learned how, I began to get ideas. I was also inspired by your RC videos - convey information and convey fun! So... I thought I'd make a video using the guidelines I use for my entire hobby - it's going to be fun, a little irreverent and certainly mindful of the stuff I've always found to be a chore. Turned out it was quite fun - I think there will certainly be more of these in the future!

@@Rik_Berryere I certainly hope so, Rik. I'll look forward to them.

Thank you, Al. From you, those words mean a lot. Y'know, it was such a blast to collaborate with Vic; he was really a great guy who was a lot of fun to work with. He even agreed to play the aviator hero in MacJams City! Just out of curiosity, which version are you referring to? There were three floating around back then - a very similar one that had a different intro and no synth solo. The third was a VERY different version that featured yours truly bashing away on a guitar; I'll probably post that one as well a bit later.

@@Rik_Berryere This version had a pretty good guitar in it, as well as a synth. I don't know which version it is cause it just randomly popped up in my YT notifications. You can imagine my reaction - I'm used to a certain set of YT genres, then suddenly..... DUCKS? MARS? RIK? Sometimes life throws a curve ball.

You know, I think there were only three coaches on the second train in Kingston.

Funny thing is, I used to think HO was small - or at least, 'normal'. N scale was so tiny I couldn't ever imagine working with it - let alone doing THIS kind of monkeyshines. Now, N scale seems perfectly normal and my HO stuff (still have some for sentimental reasons) seems positively Godzillian is size. When I hear HO model railroaders complaining about not having enough space in their locomotives to do...well, whatever... I want to beat them with a very large, very cold fish. Thanks for the kind words, Al. The lighting stuff was my biggest bugaboo - I've watched the electrical stuff you do with the R/C cars with great admiration. Wish I'd actually taken a few classes with Mr. Huntly back in the day - I never did as a high school yoot, but in Grade 8 they shipped a bunch of us up from the elementary school down the road to get a taste of life 'in the big house' taking some shop classes. All I remember is Mr. Huntly exploding a few capacitors to make a point... and something about 'Mr. Lazy Electron'. Oh yeah. And Paul Jardine throwing wrenches into the overhead fan in automotive class. We'd all bet where they landed. Best moment - it flew right back to the tool crib, knocking all the tools off the pegs. Sounded like a 747 crashing. Wait - that was Grade 12. I was almost an adult then. Oops.

I've heard a few reasons. The steel exteriors of the blue cars were subject to rust, which the stainless steel CP equipment didn't have an issue with. Also, the ex-CP cars, being stainless steel, had a certain stylistic appeal that the plainer blue cars lacked. Nevertheless, there were apparently plans to rebuild and HEP fifty-odd blue cars in the 90s, but a round of budget cuts to VIA killed that idea from ever happening. A shame, really - CN put a ton of effort into maintaining their passenger cars, as they were still trying to keep passenger train service afloat. CP, on the other hand, just let their cars interiors go, as they were doing everything they could to get out of the passenger service altogether! And today, it's the ex-CP cars that define style and class for passenger train service.

Eeek. My apologies to Jill. I added a disclaimer to the description to possibly prevent any future divorce proceedings from occurring between any other unsuspecting train-loving spouse and not-so-much-with-the-loving-of-the-trains partner. Admittedly, too late for your situation. I'll buy you a bunch of butter tarts at some point in the future by way of apology.

just these Iron Highway piggybacks in their still-experimental stage (note the HX prefix to the power-unit numbers). they made'em a little longer toward the end of the experiment, then scrapped the technology (undercarriage lasers would get too dirty & malfunction is what i eventually heard) & replaced it with the Xpressway piggyback service, making the consists much longer.

I was thinking about something I could put together that would be short, quick little vignettes that wouldn't take five years to complete! And I'm pretty familiar with how territorial and, er, grumpy model railroaders can be. Oh yes!

Around a month or so ago... I thought actually having Bobby Gimby's 'Canada' song playing over the end credits would have been the perfect ending. But I have no idea who actually owns the rights to it now, or who to ask, and some poking around on the internet didn't really help. Whilst poking around, I discovered Gimby also wrote 'Ontari-ari-ario' as well. And yes, I'm sorry for putting THAT ear worm into your head. "A place to li-i-ive, a place to grow-o-o-ow.... " Ack!

@@Rik_Berryere Oh, that Ontari-ari-ario, we had to sing that during morning routine in grades 2-3-4. Just, 'Orrible, 'orrible music - I taught myself as a child to not ever allow that ear worm into my head.

Canadienii ăștia ce trenuri aveau fata de ale noastre vechi de 30 de ani....

@@Ovi327W Acestea sunt LRC, fabricate in anii '70-'80. Noi stam chiar bine.

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