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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- I recently had a request to upload higher quality versions of some of my older videos. Some of the scenes in this one appeared in my CP MLW's and Lac Megantic videos, but most of the footage is new to TH-cam. It was taken in July 1989 on a weekend trip to Montreal. Locations are captioned.
Brings me back memories of watching trains when I was a teenager, Alcos, yellow cabooses old speeder cars. Wow that was awesome. Thanks for your sharing.
Jason smith.
Excellent video well done.This is some of the best footage of CP's Alco/MLW units I have seen. Classic and from a long ago time when these locomotives were a regular sight on the rails. The camera work is good and so are the various locations. And it was also nice to see the pretty lady on the boat ! Thank you Fmnut awesome video ! 😁👍
Thank you for putting this up. Love the scenery, the trains and the MLW.
Thanks for posting this video. I loved watching all the CP Rail action in a part of the country that I have not spent a lot of time. Thanks again.
Fantastic quality for 89' !!! Good luck getting that close to St. Luc nowadays... I've never even bothered to try.
I was in a small park area next to the yard access road shooting over a chest high chain fence. A railway employee came out and started yammering at me in French. When I indicated I didn't parlez Francais, he left. About 20 minutes later an anglophone came and explained that, while they were NOT happy with my filming, there was nothing they could do about it since I was not on railway property. I checked the spot recently on Google Street view, and the access to that park plot is now closed off with a high chain fence and gate, and no longer is maintained with lots of rubbish and high weeds.
Family member on that train!! Good timing and awesome old school cp !!!!!!
Mostly the first 4 minutes I meant by that but the whole video is so good
Nice to see American freight cars in each freight consist along with Canada's. Excellent!
FM NUT, have you considered putting 1 & 2, and any other footage in a video/dvd? Like Tim Wakeman
& Broken Knuckle did? Might be a real good seller. Id buy a copy.
Yes, considered and rejected. I have a friend in the business who says it's a declining market. Also, too much paperwork involved with selling things. Feel free to download and burn your own DVD.
A real treat! Loved it!! Now on to part 2!!!!
I really enjoyed watching this video. Thank you so much for sharing.
Part 2 coming soon.
Those 4700's never looked the same, each one having a unique vent placement or color. Long before my time but I was blessed to see just one of them move east thru Michigan on its way to Canada.
Nice footage. Love it...takes me back not too long ago.
The good old days are good and gone.
Those old ALCO's ran pretty fast over "okay" sectional track. Classic!
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing it with us!
WOW thanks soooo much for sharing ! ! !
I love those Alco locomotives especially the smoke !
2:01 That footage looks to be from right at the bottom of what used to be my grandparents driveway
Up to your ears in Alcos (well, MLWs)! Interesting on that first train, leading it was a very old carriage, seemingly serving as a caboose.
That was a dynamometer car used for locomotive testing.
Unfortunately CP does not run east of Montreal anymore, just south of there toward Binghampton, NY and just west of there toward Toronto in Ontario.
CP essentially traded the Maritimes/Quebec route for the D&H to gain access to Atlantic ports. New York and Philadelphia can handle much larger shipping than St John and without the issue of tides. In the long run the choice was moot as the bulk of the D&H proved unprofitable even with double stacks and operating economies. They sold south of Albany to NS.
Ive been to Muskoka area once. We flew over C.P. freight as it worked through the woods. Engineer waved at us. Amazing place, being from California. Blew me away , the beauty.
CP has returned to east of Montreal
Great videos through out the whole video. I am a student at a university in Sherbrooke and I really want to chase a CP train East. I didn’t know if you would have any tips or know any websites I could look up for help. Or if anyone reading this would have advice. Anything I’d appreciated
Back when I did these trips my only info was the Quebec provincial map that showed the roads and railroads. I would recommend following the route virtually on Google Earth and Streetview to see what shots are still possible, as many of the locations may have grown shut in the intervening 30 years, especially since vegetation management on the line was probably a casualty of the low budget operators after CP. Also, back in CP days train speeds were in the 30 to 40 MPH range which made chasing just within the range of possibility. If train speeds get any faster, you're out of luck.
Man, CP really had a penchant for not latching the doors in the 80s
That was due to the hot weather. By then they were not getting the best maintenance and tended to overheat.
Wow all that power
I have a question, there is not video about the ex murray bay subdivision in old good day?
@fmnut is volume 1 and 2 available for purchase on dvd?
@@theyettifromcanada3688 I can burn you a copy. Contact me at fmnut@msn.com
@@fmnut will do! thank you!
What white flags mean? Fmnnut: its now xmas 2023.
Are u still getting clips these days?
I watch these movies once a year. Never gets old. Thank u brother. Peace be with you & family.
P.j. Carpinteria Calif
They actually took the time to come out and yell at you for filming? In 2 languages? Bet they had this footage now. Good ball s. Damn.
Thanks for this quality video too. Do you know if the 7 unit lash up was a power balancing move? Also, were they running with the carbody doors open for ventilation? I can see having the nose door open for cab ventilation. Some Canadian drivers aren't any better than some Americans when it comes to grade crossing safety. Loved the pacing scenes with the hotbox detector being heard in the background.
Yes, the big power consist was a weekend balancing move. It was quite hot the weekend of my visit and the hood doors were open to help cool the engine compartmentsp. The Alcos tended to overheat with all the hard pulls. When that 7 unit consist pulled into Sherbrooke the bells were ringing, half the units had low water alarms going off. A fitter was on hand to top them off.
Wow! Flying “extra” flags in the 80s! Most rulebooks did away with them in the 60s. White classification lights day and night instead.
You got there after I stopped going. I think my last trip was 7/89. RS18s were the rule. Went back in 95 before it was all changed. Great stuff! What do you use for capturing to digital?
Are you the same guy who's footage was used in Montreal's Machine's The Last Stand Of The 251?
@@9751asd nope, sorry, that wasn't me. I have the DVD, though.
Sorry for the late reply. I use a Sony Digital 8 camera (backwards compatible with 8 and hi8 tapes) with firewire input to Pinnacle Studio 9 for capturing. Editing done on Studio 15.
Do these trains go all over Quebec?
The locomotives seen in the video are log gone, 25 years or more, but CP recently reacquired this line after a succession of regional railways operated it with mixed success. CN has a much bigger presence in Quebec than CP.
A locomotive in the video was bought and still ran, also CP retired those things in 2006 I think
So glad you're back to your CP videos. Do you have the ones from London, Sudbury, Brockville, Toronto, Mattawa, Carleton Place & Peterborough?
See my CN CP VIA Toronto to Port Hope video for Toronto footage. There is one scene outside Sudbury in my North Bay to the Soo video. The other locations, sorry I didn't get there.
@12:20 now that’s some good Quebec ass right there ! Now this is getting good !
Does any one of these go to Vermont now?
Yes, CP got the line to Newport VT when they repurchased the line across Quebec into Maine.
And it gets better after 12:20
What horn is that on unit 1832?
Airchime Ltd. M3. It sounds a different chord than a US Nathan M3. Also it is a bit out of tune.
No speed restrictions? They are all flying!
amazing
thank you
Seat belt and air bags please.
I don't clear cut select cut lumber four feet in on right of way
Great video. Kinda pixelated in spots, but that's okay.
The pixellation is an artifact of the upload process. Not sure how to fix it. The original is fine.
The barns were cool and all. But they can’t beat a full consist of MLWs.
Agreed!
These are unreal. The trains all seem to be going extremely fast. Maybe in a hurry to see pretty girls on the boats😂.
And we don't talk to NS or CSX as CRS RR
Speeders!
We stay as CRS consolidated route seaboard an run for they money NS CSX