Trains and Bears on Rogers Pass!

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  • Canadian Pacific trains climb the west side of Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada. Shot in the summer and fall of 2014, this program showcases railroading in the rugged and beautiful Selkirk Mountains east of Revelstoke, BC. While filming, we are visited by a few black bears venturing trackside.
    This video is a segment from our program "Rogers Pass: Canadian Pacific's Mountain Sub" available on DVD, Hi-Definition Blu-ray, and Digital Download at 7ideaproductions.com. www.7ideaproductions.com/prod...
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  • @2puffs770
    @2puffs770 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In my next life, I'd LOVE to operate a train.....what a way to see the most beautiful rivers and forested areas!

    • @windshearahead7012
      @windshearahead7012 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      for 2 days then you will realize what a terrible idea that was.

  • @georgettedebuhr2660
    @georgettedebuhr2660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is such a beautiful area to watch trains. No other place on earth can compete with this. I would say awesome. Thank you for posting

    • @hcrun
      @hcrun ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Switzerland and Norway are spectacular.

    • @JB0i
      @JB0i 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@hcrunour trains are cooler tho

  • @Tcostello105
    @Tcostello105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Excellent video! These spots look absolutely breathtaking to visit in person.

  • @CiriAntares
    @CiriAntares 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Really great views of the mountains, bears and trains. Nice work!

  • @supa153
    @supa153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The train at 6:30 was CP 9751 and that train was used in the movie Unstoppable for the train 767. You can even see the left over paint on the edges of the plow.

  • @drewdoneit5578
    @drewdoneit5578 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sweet !!❤. Hello from Washington DC !

  • @marryannlamb9853
    @marryannlamb9853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome video. Have a great day.

  • @heinzbreuer2674
    @heinzbreuer2674 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Was ein wunderschönes Land Canada. Das Video Spitze 🤠greetings from Germany Cologne

  • @MegaSnow121
    @MegaSnow121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The trains are awesome in their power, though they take a back seat to the breathtaking surroundings in every shot. Thank you for posting this beautiful video.

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Canada is such a beautiful country and it is impossible to really capture the "wow" of it on film. Still it is fun to try. Thank you for watching!

  • @scotty4579
    @scotty4579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Rogers pass has to be my favourite dvd , the shuswap would make a great compliment to it as would the Windermere sub

  • @stevehewitt4190
    @stevehewitt4190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good explanation of what is going on for us in the UK watching the Canadian action, thank you. Love the bears.

  • @steelrails1153
    @steelrails1153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If you come here in winter, come prepared ! I spent the last year in Revelstoke and from November 1 to March 31 the sun was visible for maybe only 10 days, the rest of the time it was cloudy, foggy, and often snowing. Ploughed piles of snow in town averaged 3 meters / 10 feet tall everywhere. "Revy" does not get too cold, it is at low altitude and gets some mild Pacific Ocean air, temps averaged about -5 C / 20 F all winter, and the snow at lower elevations melted quickly in April.

    • @jamielacourse7578
      @jamielacourse7578 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its generally rain or snow. Welcome to B.C.........

  • @dustdevil9614
    @dustdevil9614 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I used to be a conductor on the Mtn sub and used to run to the front of the locomotive to try and scare animals ( bears/deer/once an owl lol) off the track. They seem to get hypnotized by the sound and powerful front headlights. I found that many of the longer tenured employees didnt much seem to care what they ran over. Used to piss me off to be honest

    • @ShortArmOfGod
      @ShortArmOfGod หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Because they realized that what you were doing was pointless.

  • @hanscom0790
    @hanscom0790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for posting these great videos

  • @icecold1950
    @icecold1950 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Highly professional video and commentary, maybe the best train video I’ve ever seen. Subscribed! 👍👍

  • @tturbine3940
    @tturbine3940 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Breathtaking scenery!

  • @Marks_Station
    @Marks_Station 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful video! Beautiful scenery to match awesome trains.

  • @StormySkyRailProductions
    @StormySkyRailProductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Awesome video! The scenery is absolutely stunning

  • @EntertainmentWorldz
    @EntertainmentWorldz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    super video

  • @BradFalck-mn3pc
    @BradFalck-mn3pc 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Canada and the United States have been a great pairing where they have consistently made each other successful 🇨🇦🇺🇸

  • @raymondrion6712
    @raymondrion6712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the great video.

  • @steelrails1153
    @steelrails1153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At 3:00 is one of the hundreds of snow avalanche chutes up in the trees that occur in this region, this is summer so the 3 to 7 meters / 10 to 20 feet of snow on the ground in winter has melted. Rogers Pass has one of the World's largest snow avalanche control programs for both the railway and the highway that go through it, a small unit of the Canadian Army is stationed there November to April and uses 105 mm howitzers to shoot at potential snow-slides under the direction of avalanche experts, bringing the snow avalanches down in a controlled manner with the pass temporarily closed so that people, vehicles and trains are not hit by them. Up to 25 meters / 80 feet of snow can fall on the mountains in an average winter.

  • @TracksideTyson
    @TracksideTyson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful scenes of trains through out this section of British Columbia with many beautiful old historic tunnels and more! thanks for posting.

  • @stevejordan2840
    @stevejordan2840 ปีที่แล้ว

    I visited the helper station and the east side just a few months before the McDonald tunnel opened. When it opened they were shutting down the helper station. It was the last permanently manned station still open in North America at that time with two six unit SD 40-s's helper sets. We were hanging around taking a few pictures with the engine crew came out and invited us along for a push up the hill. One of the greatest experiences of my life.

  • @Railwheel
    @Railwheel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice trains!!

  • @douglasalan5783
    @douglasalan5783 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best railfan videos on YT, hands down. Totally professional and dramatic. BC is gorgeous.

  • @JohnNyren65
    @JohnNyren65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome videos! Beautiful rogers pass

  • @MrMASSEYJONES
    @MrMASSEYJONES 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! I have been in the Roger’s Psss several times over 30 years; but never this close to the tunnel mouth.

  • @Heather-qr4wm
    @Heather-qr4wm ปีที่แล้ว

    glorious shots-footage of my hobby i am an advid railroad lover

  • @petenielsen3453
    @petenielsen3453 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the commentary you give on the videos

  • @jamesburnside3023
    @jamesburnside3023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome work great trains

  • @svtrains4773
    @svtrains4773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful video!

  • @philippilemann6520
    @philippilemann6520 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    awesome

  • @TheRailfanDan
    @TheRailfanDan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was great! I knew about Rogers Pass but nothing specific at all so I enjoyed all the info. I want to try to keep up to date on everything you upload on here!

  • @darryldarwent3676
    @darryldarwent3676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good film. Never would have thought to access the areas where you filmed.

  • @steelrails1153
    @steelrails1153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rogers Pass is located in the mountain range called the Selkirks, one of 4 sub-ranges of the Columbia River Mountains, which run right beside the Canadian Rocky Mountains and are as high and extensive but geologically different in rock type and origin. Eagle Pass, a low pass through the equally high Monashee Range, is just west of Revelstoke, the huge Columbia River has its headwaters all through this region, it is the same river that flows into Washington State and Oregon in the USA and powers the famous Grand Coulee Dam there, along with many other big dams on both sides of the border.

  • @user-xi3hp9sq1q
    @user-xi3hp9sq1q 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is really good picture quality! Great video!

  • @chriskeentechnician
    @chriskeentechnician 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve just discovered your channel and let’s just say I’m going to be here a while 👌 This is fantastic! Such a lovely backdrop as well. Reminds me a little of the alpine regions here in New Zealand 🇳🇿 🇨🇦

  • @moemanncann895
    @moemanncann895 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, beautiful location, plenty of power

  • @cdnrock7433
    @cdnrock7433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm fortunate that this is area is only a few hours drive from my house.

  • @randallellison6421
    @randallellison6421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome video! In a way it's kind of history in real time with the approaching CP/KCS merger!

  • @iiigraghu
    @iiigraghu ปีที่แล้ว +2

    TH-cam Channel 7idea Productions is altogether a Great Presenter of Railfanning Videos. But for him, we cannot watch this far off and remote corner locations, information and everything. Hearty Greetings, Congratulations and Best Wishes from Kakinada/Hyderabad, India 🇮🇳 💐🤝👌💐

  • @rabidbigdog
    @rabidbigdog 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The bears look so cuddly though ....

  • @gilberthewko4439
    @gilberthewko4439 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Longest train that ever saw went down Georgia main, engine passed by at 6 o’clock caboose passed by at 9

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a great place that would be to pitch a tent for a week or so. No sirens , no traffic......no people.....

  • @brentonharding247
    @brentonharding247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The commentary should have mentioned that the Canadian Pacific Railway was the first transcontinental railway not, as Americans claim, the Union Pacific. The CPR runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Union Pacific only runs from the west bank of the Mississippi to Sacramento.
    To be accurate, the narrator should have said the railway runs under Rogers Pass. While the Trans Canada Highway does go through the pass, trains haven't gone through since construction of the Connaught Tunnel.
    Construction of the Mt. McDonald Tunnel may have lowered the grade but the real reason for its construction was to increase the throughput of trains. The Connaught Tunnel was a bottleneck on the CPR mainline.
    By the way, the train with the long grey line of hopper cars was a potash unit train on the way to Vancouver. Potash, mined in Saskatchewan, is exported for fertiliser.

    • @jfmezei
      @jfmezei 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Canadian Pacific is no longer a transcontinental railway. It has brought back only PARTs of its former line to St-Johns via Main (the one that goes thoughh lac Mégantic) but Irving family still onws the railwasy CP abandonned in New Brinswick and parts of Maine.

    • @brentonharding247
      @brentonharding247 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jfmezei The CPR is still a transcontinental railway. Its service to Quebec City takes it to the Atlantic Ocean.

    • @jfmezei
      @jfmezei 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brentonharding247 CP Rail has not served Québec since the 1980s. After being ordered by a court to fix a bridge (CP had abandonned service on the line), CP sold it to Genessee & Wyoming. (And Québec City is still part of St-Lawrence Seaway and pilots need to board and gui ships at Matane or Rimouski (forget which) so not the Atlantic. CP had also split its remaining Québec tracks into separate subsidiary hoping to sell or bankrupt it so it could stop its trains near the Ontario border at Les Cèdres. (all it has left is now single track from Smith Falls to Montreal, Montreal to US border (to connect to its Delaware and Hudson tracks to Albany), and the division to Farnham. It has recently purchased back part of its former line through Lac Mégantic (with Federal government money to pay for upgrades and bypass of Mégantic). It has trackage rights to a port in Maine and I think on the Irving Railway to Syt-Joshs, but it isn't its network.
      CP had made public its desire to exit Québec entirely. As as soon as it was given money to sabotage Windsor station to build hockey area to prevent traisn reaching it (with promise to keep head office in Montréal, it moved head office to Calgary(.

    • @brentonharding247
      @brentonharding247 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jfmezei This is all very nice but I am trying to figure out the relevance of 1980 to 1885. When the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in November, 1885 it was North America’s first transcontinental railway. One hundred years later, you cannot reverse what it was. To put it succinctly, it was what it was. One hundred and thirty-seven years later the CPR is what it is.

  • @jfmezei
    @jfmezei 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    BTW, the longest rail tunnel in the western hemisphere is (at present) the Gotrhard Base tunnel between Switzerland and Italy at 57km, or 35 US miles. Neither Caunnaught nor Mount Mac Donald come even close. Those CP tunnels are unique in that they support ancient steam/diesel locomotives with use of gates and multiple ventilation systems that change role as train progresses thorugh tunnel since it is important to give these locomotives fresh air.
    In the early days, CP would ditch dining car at Golden and get one back at Revelstoke in order to reduce weight of train going up the original pass. This is one reason they had hotel/station at top of pass to feed passengers.
    BTW, your videos mention CP traisn from Vancouevr to Montréal, as they no longer have such tracks and all its trains must pass through Toronto and use what is now single track to Montréal, I am curious if the full train consists only passes through Toronto with just a crew change, whether thei change the locos, or pass the train through the sorting yard to create the couple of trains to Montreal that remain.

  • @azimuta3975
    @azimuta3975 ปีที่แล้ว

    Красота то какая,лепота!

  • @amtrakisveryepic4169
    @amtrakisveryepic4169 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:30 One of the locomotives used in the movie "Unstoppable"

  • @franzbrunner499
    @franzbrunner499 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a wonderful place to watch trains :) once i saw a list of top rail watch locations in the US (must have been a rail magazine -is there anything similar for Canada?

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always look out for the JB5573H32/UU771 when I am in the area.

  • @ronparrish6666
    @ronparrish6666 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful shots just 2 things I saw the bears but was that a squirrel that ran across the tracks a about 50 mph at the opening scene and how far are the CN tracks from this area thanks

  • @driveincanada9713
    @driveincanada9713 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤

  • @luciencote6214
    @luciencote6214 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was the différence on this course between the years 1975 and today ?, road, track, bridge etc...

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    at 8.50 minutes, it would be for sure interesting what kind of - contraption - that loco would be?

  • @renegadetenor
    @renegadetenor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wouldn't the SD40-2 be Milwaukee, as the original SOO units lacked dynamic brakes?

  • @kirkzevola5004
    @kirkzevola5004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does the MT Shaughnessy Tunnel have a door that opens and closes on one end before and after the ventilation system?

    • @bandit5847
      @bandit5847 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No.

  • @IronHorsefan1869
    @IronHorsefan1869 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you planning on visiting the California Surfline or Sunset Route?

  • @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp
    @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Former "CP Holiday Train" Locomotive at 8:05

  • @LtBRS
    @LtBRS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What do they do with sasquatchs on the tracks?

    • @steelrails1153
      @steelrails1153 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We send them to American Collectors.

    • @LtBRS
      @LtBRS 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@steelrails1153
      Good luck with that!

  • @darryldarwent3676
    @darryldarwent3676 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you see the wavy rails laying in the yard at 16:18?😳

    • @kyleb06
      @kyleb06 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's just welded rail laying off to the side awaiting future use

  • @sohailanwar2453
    @sohailanwar2453 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Country and city?

  • @willz238
    @willz238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First place isn’t ross peak that’s greely

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes you are 100% correct! HUGE typo. Didn't catch that until it was posted. It is correct on the DVD version but someone needs to fire the scriptwriter or the narrator over this one. Oh wait! They're both me!

    • @willz238
      @willz238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@7ideaproductions ahah all good I’m a engineer in revelstoke so I’ve out been out there tons and you just know right away!

    • @willz238
      @willz238 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@7ideaproductions ahah all good I’m a engineer for CP in revelstoke so I’ve out been out there tons and you just know right away!

  • @paulmatulavich7321
    @paulmatulavich7321 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you still using the Canon xf705? What do you think about the new xf605 for filming trains? Thank you.

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually I haven't used the 705 however I have a shoot coming up in a week in which I will be using the 605. I will be happy to let you know what I think of the camera.

  • @jeffross5424
    @jeffross5424 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you sound like troy mcclure from the simpson's

    • @7ideaproductions
      @7ideaproductions  ปีที่แล้ว

      Well I'm not sure who that is but hopefully that's a good thing!

  • @user-ui1oh2ky4d
    @user-ui1oh2ky4d 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    เครื่องยนต์อะไรครับบบรรทุกเปนร้อยตุ้น่านับถือจริงๆๆ

  • @ronjohnson5070
    @ronjohnson5070 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pour honey on the tracks, I think you will see more bears

  • @piad2102
    @piad2102 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not very co2 friendly to fire shells at snow. I thought Canada are going for NET 0. rodfl.

  • @KadeJazzyandEli
    @KadeJazzyandEli 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I only like Csx train Dummy

  • @aminaurten.6493
    @aminaurten.6493 2 ปีที่แล้ว