What an amazing view with these drones. The landscape is very nice looking and gives me a feeling of watching a well detailed model railroad layout as the trains are dwarfed by the beautiful scenery. Thanks excellent video ! 👍
Perfect timing catching 2 trains crossing over each other. That is probably a rare event because the window of opportunity is small. Great vid as usual.
@@TonyVRailfanning A random question if you don't mind. I was in San Juan Capistrano CA last Thursday giving my brother in Lethbridge a VR cam wave ( he enjoyed it). I noticed on the ties in the station area there were many rows of small rubber reflector strips( 3 inched wide 2 inches tall) like you see in some lanes of traffic. Do you know what purpose they would serve? Keep the good vids coming, thanks.
@@kenstevenson4133 I know In Edmonton on our LRT they have numbers on markers that indicate if your tail end of the train has cleared the end of the platform so if you have a 4 car train you have to stop at the number 4 marker
Lovely scenery. Sad to hear about Lytton. Looked like a beautiful place. Cruised past Revy, so sad to see it with all the smoke around. I miss my friend. I am glad you decided to show this video. Parts of it look like a model railroad layout. Stay safe 🌲
Amazing place. The two bridges are incredible. Very cool the trains meet. I liked that you talk about Lytton. This is a remarkable video. Thanks for share with us
Your welcome, Im very sad that the fires are causing so much loss in BC. These bridges built in the late 1890s are a testament to engineering skills of time long gone.
as usual excellant video and nice music,I have been there many times .the south side of the river,up at the top of the mountain a survelance camera overlooks the bridges 24 hrs, a day, since the fire in august of 2013. Maybe your drone can get a picture of it.
Looking at the first bridge, the one used for east bound traffic, I found it remarkable that the concrete piers ran across the tracks and not parallel to the flow of the river. It would be easier to build the bridges with this arrangement but there is a great deal more forces acting on the concrete piers by the river. And it is not impossible, or even unusual to have the bridge structure skewed to accommodate piers that are not perpendicular to length of the bridge spans. I did enjoy the fact that the two bridges have very different designs. Richard
Think about it this way, in 1890 what tools did they have to work with. They are remarkable achievements considering. Thanks for commenting. Have a great week
Fantastic video of a highly spectacular place which doesn't get featured too often! If the surrounding infrastructure (power, network etc.) could allow, this would be a favourite location for a PTZ cam for me. :-D
Canyon is a great place to shoot.
Ya, such an interesting location
Nice footage....thanks....luv it
Thanks
Great video looking forward to my RMR Trip in May 2022. Thanks again Tony!
Thanks, I would love to go on the RMR
Great video Tony. The bridges are something else when you consider when they were built.
Thank you, I just about had the perfect shot but missed the head end
What an amazing view with these drones. The landscape is very nice looking and gives me a feeling of watching a well detailed model railroad layout as the trains are dwarfed by the beautiful scenery. Thanks excellent video ! 👍
Thank you Mike, sadly it was too windy to really get into the views there. I hope to return sometime in the next year or so depending on gas prices
Perfect timing catching 2 trains crossing over each other. That is probably a rare event because the window of opportunity is small. Great vid as usual.
Thank you TG
Amazing sections of track. Great to see a meet at a unique location. Nicely done.
Thank you
@@TonyVRailfanning A random question if you don't mind. I was in San Juan Capistrano CA last Thursday giving my brother in Lethbridge a VR cam wave ( he enjoyed it). I noticed on the ties in the station area there were many rows of small rubber reflector strips( 3 inched wide 2 inches tall) like you see in some lanes of traffic. Do you know what purpose they would serve? Keep the good vids coming, thanks.
@@kenstevenson4133 hmmm, I would have to guess they are markers to inform the train crew that is the safe area to slow and stop?
@@TonyVRailfanning It's also a heavily used pedestrian crossing right there so believe you're correct about the use. Thanks.
@@kenstevenson4133 I know In Edmonton on our LRT they have numbers on markers that indicate if your tail end of the train has cleared the end of the platform so if you have a 4 car train you have to stop at the number 4 marker
Lovely scenery. Sad to hear about Lytton. Looked like a beautiful place. Cruised past Revy, so sad to see it with all the smoke around. I miss my friend. I am glad you decided to show this video. Parts of it look like a model railroad layout.
Stay safe 🌲
Thanks John, stop by and say hi on the chat. We miss your conversation
Amazing place. The two bridges are incredible. Very cool the trains meet. I liked that you talk about Lytton. This is a remarkable video. Thanks for share with us
Your welcome, Im very sad that the fires are causing so much loss in BC. These bridges built in the late 1890s are a testament to engineering skills of time long gone.
as usual excellant video and nice music,I have been there many times .the south side of the river,up at the top of the mountain a survelance camera overlooks the bridges 24 hrs, a day, since the fire in august of 2013. Maybe your drone can get a picture of it.
Thank you I did not know about the camera. I do plan to go back there at some point maybe next summer already,
The orange bowed bridge was delibritly set on fire august 2013.
@@hankpenninga sad that stuff happens
Looking at the first bridge, the one used for east bound traffic, I found it remarkable that the concrete piers ran across the tracks and not parallel to the flow of the river. It would be easier to build the bridges with this arrangement but there is a great deal more forces acting on the concrete piers by the river. And it is not impossible, or even unusual to have the bridge structure skewed to accommodate piers that are not perpendicular to length of the bridge spans.
I did enjoy the fact that the two bridges have very different designs.
Richard
Think about it this way, in 1890 what tools did they have to work with. They are remarkable achievements considering. Thanks for commenting. Have a great week
They must have done something right. Those piers have been there for over 130 years and this is the second bridge structure they have supported!
@@tracksidebc5854 agreed, those supports don’t look a day over 50
The angled piers may keep logs and ice from building up as quickly. With the diagonal forces present.
@@olivei2484 Yes thats a good theory.
Really cool that you caught the two trains passing each other! That is the "magic" of Cisco Bridges.
Thanks, thats a tough one to catch. Im sure its not that often you can see that.
CN was second in the canyon , but seem to have had more recent building technology - like maybe steam shovels.
Very possible, Canadian Northern also would have had to use alot more danaite to blast away areas to get through for example the Bowling alley
@@TonyVRailfanning haste versus pace. Now we have the Boring Company.
Fantastic video of a highly spectacular place which doesn't get featured too often! If the surrounding infrastructure (power, network etc.) could allow, this would be a favourite location for a PTZ cam for me. :-D
Thank you. Yes, that would be a fantastic location for a camera.
The railroad pioneers certainly built some impressive infrastructure in difficult locations. 👍
It is truly remarkable considering these were built in the late 1890s and still stand today even though there were no computers or GPS to aid them.
Technical question, who is controlling the traffic flow through here?
CN RTC controls the CN side and CP RTC controls the CP side
Minor correction in description - Fraser River (not Frasier).
Thank you, corrected