All Aboard - The Construction and Grand Opening of Calgary's CTrain (1981)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Produced by Mach 2 Film Productions Limited for the Public Information Department and Transportation Department. The City of Calgary
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legend has it Mayor Klein drove that C-Train right to the King Eddy for a beer.
And threw money at a homeless
You must be one of those Eastern Creeps and Bums he told us about.
I’ve always had a personal sense of pride in the C-Train. My dad was one of the Chief electrical engineers on that project. I‘m sure I logged a few thousand kilometres riding that thing as a teenager with my student transit pass… at least until I got my license and a 1981 Mustang in 1990.
I was here in 1974 and went up in the Calgary Tower. Wow!.... the city sure has changed!
The city right now is around 3x the population it was then
I really enjoyed this blast from the past! Especially seeing old landmarks, businesses, etc. that are now a distant memory. I liked that that there were a few tunnels and elevated portions to minimize interfaces with motor vehicle traffic (with the exceptions at 25/36/50/58/61 Ave). It's too bad they didn't spend the money to further reduce at-grade intersections. I can't count how many vehicle-vs-train accidents have happened over the years, especially in the NE along 36 Street. I'd love to see a documentary on the underground tunnel under City Hall and along Stephen Avenue, and the viability of that. I remember Mayor Bronconnier putting lots of energy/money into reviving/developing the tunnel for use on the west leg, before the floods of 2013.
It’s a shame the city did not truly see growth in the LRT only making the stations downtown and some other stations long enough for 3 cars, that really put a stranglehold on its ability to carry its potential to 5 cars. The city had to rebuild all new platforms 10 years ago unlike Edmontons who opened 4 years earlier and were all 5 car capable
they are now 4 car platforms in Calgary not 5, 7th ave does not have long enough blocks for 5 cars
In 1981, the first line of the C-Train line is the South One. 4 years later the Northeast line and 2 years later the Northwest line.
We can't seem to do that anymore build.
@@DavidBale-vn4op the green line already started construction last year
It was later found that the wheel flange profile on the wheels supplied by Simmons were not compatible with the std AREA 100lb #8 switch points that were installed on the South leg. Many derailments were encountered when maintenance on the downtown tunnel, near Stampede Station, forced the use of single track running. Modified Samson style points were developed jointly between the City of Calgary, Pacific Northern Rail Contractors, and EGB Manufacturing of Cochrane Alberta. Many sets of these points are still in service on the South leg.
I was a bus driver for the City of Calgary in 1981 and saw a lot of issues with the C-train (Crash-train). Accidents, derailments, fire, that never made the news. Seems King Klein had a lot of pull with the local media (he was previously a journalist).
oh wow this is really cool, is there any kind of video for the 1985 Northeast leg?
The city seemed much more optimistic back then. Much more full of life.
Calgary (and Alberta more broadly) were hit hard in 2009 when Obama opened up fracking in the US. Right after the already downturned market caused by the 2008 financial crash. Within about 2 years the price of oil went from over $100/barrel to less than $40. The oil sands projects all stalled as that stuff is too expensive to produce, and the traditional oil and gas was far less profitable than it had been only a couple years earlier.
That finally started to recover by the mid-late 2010s, just in time for the next double-whammy of increasing climate awareness around the world and then covid. The former in particular is going to be challenging as it means the entire oil and gas industry is on a bit of a death spiral. It's not dead yet but it's only a matter of time.
I've been saying for years that Alberta needs to diversify its industry, but as I'm just some nobody on the internet (who no longer even lives in the province), they've been stubbornly unwilling to listen to my pleas. Instead they just keep doubling down over and over again on trying to keep their singularly prioritized industry hobbling along in a world that is becoming less and less interested in the products they're selling, and doing irreparable harm to both the environment and their own economy in the meantime as they funnel more and more public dollars toward subsidizing no-longer-competitive businesses in the hopes that they will recover "some day".
I remember the 1st week of operation. I was downtown along 7th avenue, they had an accident with the trains, one rear ended another 1981. I heard the alarms going off. Here that...west germany! I liked the blue colour, not the red.
Look at how far we have come since 1980. And I live in Toronto.
We have not come far at all. We pretty much stopped progress after this. And you should know, Toronto has a way more robust and large transit system. In Calgary you are screwed if you do not woke or live near a train and have no choice but to drive everywhere.
TTC is the best. Edmonton tries harder than Calgary in transit.
How long after is opened did it take for the c-train to suffer it first derailment. About 15 seconds, The opening ceremony signaled the opening of the line by driving a train through a ribbon. the new Mayor Ralph Klein was at the control of said train and he was a little aggressive driving the train. The result was the moment he hit the first switch the train derailed. That incident was quietly swept under the rug.
Calgary Mayor Rod Sykes Council is to thank for the first leg of the LRT being approved in 1976. He’s still in Calgary at a youthful 94 years old. He also wants to #recallgondek
Funny how Calgary still has a few of those same old trains on the tracks. Sad.
ALL ABOARD!
They are still running the same train cars from 1981.
i been on that before they switch to new ones... i started ride that in late 2004 to early 2005 back in high school
@@havok9001 They are still running the same train cars from the 1980s. You still see them from time to time if you are a regular rider.
Super cool vid
I want to know why we are using new low floor train cars and just not keep using the ones we have
The bridge collapse over the elbow river late in construction. Should have buried it downtown like Edmonton did.
They couldn't, or it would have been "the sea train" It wasn't made very well known, but due to Calgary's very high water table, especially downtown, had they went underground with it ,it would have been constantly flooded.
time when the Calgary Tower was the tallest, talk about change.
you wouldnt dare ride the ctrain nowadays
“Kiss and Ride” 🙄
They still have one of those signs at the Whitehorn station. ;)
The majority of people in this film are no longer with us.
Good 'ol days when we had mayors that worked to build the city and infrastructure to support it. Now we just have ones that work to destroy it.
Not really, the city keeps trying to expand the line and the province keeps ordering more pointless studies
All of the nonsense going on today makes one long for these vintage times
Praying every night that you won't be wiped out in nuclear war...
Nothing's changed much, really.
Why? Back then it was way worse. You just didn’t get social media updates reminding you how crappy it was. The present is WAY better than back then.