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it’s mexico no money no care for old relics

Ex excellent music and video ! I remember the L&N in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast. 😢 😢😢. Shed a tear for those great Fallen Flags : Atlantic Coast Line , Seaboard Air Line , and our great L&N.

In 1968 I got a job as fifth cook in the diner on The Canadian. The train was operated by Canadian Pacific and used its own line instead of the Canadian National line which VIA now uses. Part of the CP line passes along the scenic and rocky north shore of Lake Superior and is far more interesting than the CN which goes through northern Ontario. There's not much to see on this line except trees and a few lakes.

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The music ruined it for me. I'd rather have some narration describing the places visited.

Wow! I remember seeing this at Eastrail in NJ back around 2000. It’s even better than I remember it. Thanks for sharing it here.

Fabulous. (I followed on Bing Map)

Nicely done! Looking forward to seeing part 2.

Very Nice Layout !

Very nice. I'd like to go southwest as a native Califorian that moved years ago. No one discusses doing southwest. PS I'll be running ALCO PAs

Nice layout & video, but your narration is difficult to hear over the engines.

Love the music you used....Pat Metheny Group. Great choice.

CNW had a manual interlocking about every 10 miles on average from Chicago to Clinton, Iowa. The first manual tower after leaving CPT (westbound) was Western Ave. (controlled by the Milwaukee Road) then Kedzie Ave. Tower. Next tower was JN Tower, then HM Tower. CNW used abbreviated names, I believe, from the days of telegraphy when that was how dispatchers communicated with the towers down the line. A lot easier to tap out two letters instead of a full name like Elmhurst, or West Chicago. By the time I hired out in 1974 nearly ALL those old towers were gone, only a distant memory, with the advent of CTC and other more modern dispatching and control mechanisms.

I was lucky to visit the CNW's Lake St. Tower many years ago when I was working a hostling job at the Chicago Passenger Terminal (CPT) at Madison St. The year escapes me but it was before the UP/CNW merger n 1995. Lake St. tower had the old "pistol grips" to throw switches on the plant. There were 16 tracks in the CPT, a fuel pocket, and 3 stub tracks just east of Lake St. Tower called the mail pocket tracks. They used to store and sometimes fuel engines there. There were about 4 to 6 leads that the 16 tracks merged into: 3 for the Geneva Sub. and 2 or 3 for the Harvard Sub. The Harvard Sub. divided at Clybourn Jct. about 2 miles distant from Lake St. interlocking, with Kenosha Sub. heading north and Harvard Sub heading northwest. If the interlocking machine at Lake St. is still in use, it is probably THE oldest manual interlocking still in use in the U.S. and probably one of the most complicated. Every time it snowed maintainers would go out, turn on the gas, and light the burners to keep the switches from freezing up and it looked like a scene from Dante's Inferno!

Very cool operations and a beautiful layout 🤠

At Santa fe Mission tower back in the early 1990s at the beginning of metrolink, there were 5 railroads the operators controlled. Santa Fe, Southen pacific, Union pacific Amtrak, and Metrolink. Not one second of quiet, 24/7 365. Absolute mayhem. Kudos to the operators who had hundreds of levers switches and signals at their command. 5 different dispatchers, 5 different rule books, 5 different radios to monitor. How they even had a clue what they were doing was astounding. The 2 tower people i remember were Bob and Jan. However much their union paid them , they were underpaid. I was a signalman in BRS, i guess they were operators union. Wat a job they did. The forgotten part of railroading. They kept the trains running like clockwork. Most railfans never saw or even hear of a armstrong interlocking

When that toilet pipe broke, Ill bet that model railroad is going to reek of urine and shit. after it's dried out, Best to give it a heavy washing down with Pine Sol.

Thanks for the vid. I'm going from Edmonton to Toronto return this November and really looking forward to it. I can't afford prestige and do not see the value of travelling 'Prestige' class versus my chosen 'Sleeper Plus' in a cabin for 1 as I'm travelling alone.

Thanks Daniel. It looks so different in the snow. Lovely music. We stayed at the Fairmont in Toronto, Jasper Park Lodge and in Coal Harbour Vancouver. Nice to see all this again. We didn't see mountains much from the train due to wildfires. We travelled back to Jasper by car from Prince George, onto Banff and then flew home to France from Calgary. For us, last May, there was another carriage behind the Park Car which spoiled the view. It's good to see you views out the back.

I did this trip several times many years ago, the first time in the 40's (I was only 2 years old but remember being in a berth with my mom) and the last time in the 80's. There were no passenger showers then but it was still a wonderful experience. I'm planning to do it one more time, hopefully this year. My dream is to book the Prestige cabin but I'll probably end up with a roomette for one. :(.

Thank you, really enjoyed your video it brought back memories of my trip back in June, It is too bad that you missed the last part of the journey, I did the round trip from Vancouver. We almost didn't get to leave because of the forest fire situation at Edson Alberta.

I loved all of it except for muting out Neil Young for personal reasons.

Thank you very much for your video. We are planning a trip next year in Prestige and you video answered many questions. Also, your 3 day stop in Jasper, although not your intention, was a great addition! (BTW, your music selection was right up my alley!!) Cheers!!

All of CSX network relies on 1 satellite transponder If that satellite fails like G5 failed in 2005 and we lost all pager service and most cellular service across America, if we lose that satellite all movement of trains has to stop The people at the top making all the money I think it's just great to get rid of people until that critical technology component fails and the entire company goes bankrupt because nothing can move

watching this on my 2 month Panama trip......very good show. My highlight so far is a flock of Green Macaws. The Harpy is still a dream. thank you for posting. eric

Where did the footage come from?

Promo-SM 🌺

i really miss those days when i was a kid growing up in mexico.every other weekend we will go to see my grandparents and we will take the train.great memories when the train will stop at smaler towns ans we will buy all kind of suveniers and local delicious food.

i would so love to take this train ride if i ever could afford it thanks for sharing ...cheers

Me and my brother were on that train we are in the business class lounge👍👍

From what little I know about interlocking the lady's tower was a mechanical interlocking with modifications and the gentleman's was an electric interlocking tower. Thanks for documenting them.

Thank you! I ejnoyed the video and appreciate the effort to film and then edit and produce the final version.

Wonderful glimpse inside those B&O towers. Great documentary and production work; thanks so much for sharing this.

Why did the North American Atchison, Topeka, And Santa Fe Railroad long sturdy freight train at 2:19 climb up over Ash Hill?

More RAW footage courtesy of Dan Hadley. Still hard to believe you're the one behind most of PENTREX'S greatest works from the early 90'S.

Love to see those SD 40-2's in action.

Very interested I like ride a train in mexico

With all due respect to Willie, it would have been a much better video if we could have heard the sounds of these old locomotives instead.

That skeleton PA is now in Frisco, TX being restored to her Santa Fe identity, as PA-59L. It's good to see one of the PAs still going strong.

I was fortunate to have worked from 1973 until 1985 in 8 different signal towers on the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis(T.R.R.A.). I started in 1970 as a messenger boy when I was still a senior in high school, became a railroad clerk and then transferred to signal towers after the clerk and tower operators unions merged. I worked WR, SH, CP Jct., Southern Crossing, Valley Jct., Q, ID, and 23st towers. Because of my seniority and being on the extra board I was the last operator at 4 of those towers. I was blessed to have always been allowed to qualify as a train dispatcher and finished my 43 year railroad career spanning 4 different railroads in 2013. My best memories are working close to the tracks and trains as a Tower Operator.

If I had the money I would buy those PA units and take it back to USA to get it restored

0:40 Are we all gne sit here and act like the cartels aint put a hit on 7703

That PA-1 is pristine!

Great documentary remember seen an f series emd on the CHP former Kansas City Mexico & Orient Chih. roundhouse in late 60s

Excellent!!!

This is brilliant. Just what I needed today. The Boss and Alco locomotives

Your video is so well done, when I got to the end I wanted to start it again from the beginning!

Really beautiful and colored equipment they had !

PENTREX Eastern Kentucky Coal.

also i rode the passenger train from mexicalli to gaudalahara and thence mex city. our train gog taken over by pilgrems going to the big catholic cathedrel in mex city. the rr had to make up a second section flying flags . mom said every thing lookd like trains that she rode when she was a chiled and the equipment was . this was in 1969 . i just got out of hospital and had a back cast on and what a adventure for a kid.