I grew up in Dorion (Now Vaudreuil-Dorion since 1994). I remember both major cars that used to run on the CP line Montréal/Dorion-Rigaud. I went on that line a few times with my mother at 6, somewhere in 1977 and vaguely remember we boarded the double-storey cars and I recognize them on your video. They used to run on the "shuttle" line that ran back and forth all day, and never parked downtown. I assume the rush hour trains were the ones with the single-level cars with school-bus like windows you could open. I started to regularly commute on that line in 1988 after I graduated high-school, to College, then University, then work downtown... Both style cars were still in service, but painted in blue and white. The older ones with openable top half of the windows survived until somewhere in 2005, and I remember their floor heaters below the windows became hot enough to nearly melt rubber from boots, and is smelled! They were not air-conditioned, of course, and you could stand next to the side doors that were open while rolling.... The double-storey ones had some seat backs that could flip to change the seat configurations, so you could either sit 4 facing each other. On the top floor, if you were not too heavy (child/teen), you could lay on the middle luggage shelf and the ticket man wouldn't see you (if no one else said anything...) These don't run anymore today on this line, so I'm not sure if they're elsewhere or totally retired as well... I'd love to see the schedule for the Montréal - Dorion/Rigaud in the 70s or earlier...
Yep. On the double deckers u could lie on the floor and the conductor who took the tickets would not see you. Lol one time when we did get a transfer the bus driver had no idea what it even was ( what a dummy) But yeah those double deckers man , they had a huge capacity
@@daveyboy_ I remember when you were paying cash to the ticket man, who could return change from his huge coin-filled waist pocket, he would also hand you a receipt labeled "Reçu du voyageur" and punch the amount paid, and the date. For examples, paying $3.80 on DEC-06, he would punch $2, $1, 50c, 20c, 10c, or such, and also the month DEC and the day 6. You would have to know how to count, to confirm the amount paid! These are the good old days where we used to use our brain to calculate and thing in genereal. I'm still proud to do so today... I think he gave you another paper as a transfer for the bus or metro. One crazy anecdote from the first year I took it, in 1988 or 1989. I'd pay on MAY-08, but he mistakenly punched MAY-09 on it. Guess what! The next day, I boarded the train with it, and when the ticket man came, I showed it, and said "I've got my receipt, just look..." He was puzzled, so I said the other ticket man at the opposite end just gave it to me. He was even more puzzled and let me continue. Later on , I said to myself "What if he was the only ticket man?"....
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I grew up in Dorion (Now Vaudreuil-Dorion since 1994). I remember both major cars that used to run on the CP line Montréal/Dorion-Rigaud. I went on that line a few times with my mother at 6, somewhere in 1977 and vaguely remember we boarded the double-storey cars and I recognize them on your video. They used to run on the "shuttle" line that ran back and forth all day, and never parked downtown. I assume the rush hour trains were the ones with the single-level cars with school-bus like windows you could open. I started to regularly commute on that line in 1988 after I graduated high-school, to College, then University, then work downtown... Both style cars were still in service, but painted in blue and white. The older ones with openable top half of the windows survived until somewhere in 2005, and I remember their floor heaters below the windows became hot enough to nearly melt rubber from boots, and is smelled! They were not air-conditioned, of course, and you could stand next to the side doors that were open while rolling.... The double-storey ones had some seat backs that could flip to change the seat configurations, so you could either sit 4 facing each other. On the top floor, if you were not too heavy (child/teen), you could lay on the middle luggage shelf and the ticket man wouldn't see you (if no one else said anything...) These don't run anymore today on this line, so I'm not sure if they're elsewhere or totally retired as well... I'd love to see the schedule for the Montréal - Dorion/Rigaud in the 70s or earlier...
Yep. On the double deckers u could lie on the floor and the conductor who took the tickets would not see you.
Lol one time when we did get a transfer the bus driver had no idea what it even was ( what a dummy)
But yeah those double deckers man , they had a huge capacity
@@daveyboy_ I remember when you were paying cash to the ticket man, who could return change from his huge coin-filled waist pocket, he would also hand you a receipt labeled "Reçu du voyageur" and punch the amount paid, and the date. For examples, paying $3.80 on DEC-06, he would punch $2, $1, 50c, 20c, 10c, or such, and also the month DEC and the day 6. You would have to know how to count, to confirm the amount paid! These are the good old days where we used to use our brain to calculate and thing in genereal. I'm still proud to do so today... I think he gave you another paper as a transfer for the bus or metro. One crazy anecdote from the first year I took it, in 1988 or 1989. I'd pay on MAY-08, but he mistakenly punched MAY-09 on it. Guess what! The next day, I boarded the train with it, and when the ticket man came, I showed it, and said "I've got my receipt, just look..." He was puzzled, so I said the other ticket man at the opposite end just gave it to me. He was even more puzzled and let me continue. Later on , I said to myself "What if he was the only ticket man?"....
Nice video i love tje old cp trains and cn trains beautiful!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much!
@ question the way you filmed the video is amazing that’s over40 plus years is out of this world!👍👍👍👍👍👍
CP “AMRoad” #4067 at 4:07 and 5:04
Love it ! Good old days of railroad in Canada
I Love these Coaches
Souvenirs of my hometown in Rigaud qc went the train was there park near my home at the railroad station. ❤
Gotta love the f units
And the RDCs too
did you notice how MUCH MORE SERVICE was given back then??
Nice
Railfanning in Montreal today is a far cry of what it was yesterday. They got rid of the electrics, and the equipment is not diverse at all
Silver Streak AmRoad locomotives. 4070
This is crazy. We had it figured out, now look at the mess we’ve made of our cities.
Vive le Quebec libre !!!!!!!
If Quebec was Libre, it wouldn't have these Canadian railways.
This guys' a troll don't bother responding