The video quality looks good to me. Summer of 1965 my family went from Toronto to Vancouver on the "Canadian" CP route through Banff. Came back Vancouver to Toronto on the "Super Continental" CN route through Jasper. Wow what great memories.
When i was a kid , and train crazy! a view of the Cab, inside of the Engine, was the Holy Grail! and here you have it right on film! And to sit in the enginers seat, was like, winning the lottery!
Yes, that was exciting. I've since sat in the Engineer's seat in museum static displays, but it's not the same as having the prime mover idling behind you.
Oh the memories! As a little girl, I travelled 3 times from Montreal to Vancouver return on the Super Continental. Hands down the best times of my childhood in the 60's.
as a child i used to walk to a nearby park (that wouldn't be unusual for a child in the 70's) by the tracks at a time i knew a train would be going by . the black and white train cars i am seeing in this video (and haven't seen since) are what i saw at the time. thanks for posting.
In 1957 as a 12 yr old Boy Scout I went on a 2 week canoe trip in Algonquin Park, the CNR Montreal -Sudbury Line went through the park and every night the Westbound Montreal section of the Super passed, still daylight until nearly 10pm but I didn’t have a camera then, alas the train and the rail line are both gone.
Pity you didn't have a camera as you'd have taken some awesome photos of it passing through cottage country. At least you have the memories. Thanks for sharing that one.
Many years ago, I took the Super from Toronto to Vancouver and back. I used to work for CN Telecommunications, so I had a pass that got me on the train, but I had to pay for the sleeper. As I recall, back in those days, they had separate Toronto and Montreal trains in the summer, but joined them in Capreol, Ont. during the winter. When my work had me in town, my co-workers and I had to pass through the train, when we went for coffee in the morning.
Oh how wonderful! I didn't want it to end! Amazing footage and the quality wasn't all that bad either ... thoroughly enjoyed the "trip" back in time. Great to have the visual memories and thanks so much for sharing!
Grew up in Winnipeg in the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. Lots of familiar landmarks and the echoes of train whistles at all times of the day or night still bounce around in my brain. Thanks for posting this. Good job.
This takes me back to my early teen years as I had a lot of what I saw here in HO scale. I would save my paper route money to buy those beautiful CN coaches and F units one at a time. Thanks for the memories!
Glad the movies I took in the past prompted happy memories. I had N Scale for awhile, including some CN coaches in the colours seen here, and a couple of F units.
Thank you so much Robert bringing back memories...even though I never went on the CN Super Continental...I did ride one of the last CN passagers trains from Ottawa to Toronto 1984.
When I was eight years old ,dad took me to Dauphin mb on the route to Churchill in one of those f units and passenger train 46 years ago....back then we could go along for rides. He was taken away from us at the age of 42 and i miss him still every day. Looking at your videos i try to see if i can see him..... Thanks for the vids!!
I sure wish we can still have a choice of choosing between the Canadian and the Super Continental today when it comes to transcontinental train travel across Canada, in addition to being able to take the train from Ottawa or Montreal directly to Western Canada and Vancouver without having to switch trains at Toronto. Note: The route of the Canadian today (A product of the 1990 budget cuts to VIA Rail) is the route of the old Super Continental on the CN Rail line. If things were my way, VIA Rail will still be operating BOTH the Canadian and the Super Continental today with the following differences: For instance, Ottawa Union Station in downtown Ottawa will still be active today and like the Canadian, the Super Continental will have two different branches (Vancouver-Toronto and Vancouver-Ottawa-Montreal), with the Super Continental's Vancouver-Ottawa-Montreal train branching off from the CN line prior to reaching Sudbury, and serve North Bay, Algonquin Provincial Park, Pembroke, and then Ottawa and Montreal through the Beachburg Subdivision and the Alexandria Subdivision.
I agree with you. CPR used to have through sleepers and divide the train at Sudbury, I believe. I suppose CNR did the same at Capreol though I never travelled that route until after VIA took it over.
Thanks for the reply, and I see. Huh. I never figured that CP Rail actually divided the Canadian when the train arrived at Sudbury. For a while, I kept thinking that the Canadian alternates between travelling to Toronto and to Montreal, though I suppose that was the mode VIA Rail employed after they took over the operations in the late 1970s. By the way, I've written a story on FanFiction.net set in the summer of 1970 that depicts the Scooby-Doo gang travelling to Canada the first time, where they rode on the Canadian and got off at Ottawa for its annual SuperEX, and in the first chapter, I did a detail explanation of the train route east of Sudbury. One thing to note is that initially, I did thought that the Canadian was divided at Sudbury with one train carrying on to Toronto while the other continues on to Ottawa and Montreal, though I eventually edited the chapter to depict the Canadian as alternating between travelling to Toronto and to Montreal. I didn't realize that the division of the train was actually the case when CP Rail ran it until you mentioned it in your reply.
From 1978-81, VIA ran the Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver while the Super Continental went Montreal Vancouver. Cars were switched between the two in Winnipeg. The Super was cut in 81 and the Sudbury switch was reintroduced on the Canadian. In 85 the Super came back, but only Winnipeg to Vancouver.
@@robertramsay5963 In the late sixties- early 70's CNR divided the eastbound train @ Capreol...one going to Montreal via North Bay and the Ottawa Valley and the other to Toronto....Westbound trains joined up in Capreol...when I was a kid, I rode it from Montreal to Vancouver and Vancouver to Toronto... I remember to this day it being taken apart/put together @ Capreol
@@garfieldstephensonwu142 CP split the train in Sudbury...at the downtown yard... 1/2 went to NorthBay and Montreal, the other half went to Toronto. Westbound trains joined up in Sudbury. CNR chopped/merged their train in Capreol.
Ich war 1975 auch auf dem CN „Super Continental“ als ich von Montreal nach Jasper in die „Jasper Park Lodge“, welche damals ein CN Hotel war,zur Arbeit fuhr. Super schöne Erinnerungen werden mit diesem Video wieder wach. Ich habe meine jetztige Frau durch CN in Jasper gefunden und leben jetzt wieder in der Schweiz. Ganz herzlichen Dank.
Vielen Dank für das Teilen Ihrer Erinnerungen. Ich schätze, viele junge Leute haben Sommerjobs in der Jasper Park Lodge und anderen Eisenbahnhotels gefunden. Und was für ein Bonus - Ihre Frau dort zu finden.
I traveled on Super C many times VCR-TOR both ways including when they added ex-Milwaukee Road Super-Dome as far as Edmonton. In 1964 I traveled Ottawa-Montreal on a brand new coach-lounge from Canadian Car & Foundry they were taking to MTL to be put on Super C that afternoon. There were even screws on window sill that workmen had left behind!
Always a treat to see full motion video of my favorite passenger train! That footage at Rivers is as perfect as possible, you can tell the entire consist, and yes, that's an Ex-Milwaukee Road 10-6, coupled to another 10-6 from Florida East Coast, and Mount Robson second from the rear. Thankyou so much!
Yes, I liked the diagonal swatches on the locos and the red noses, though my heart yearns for the earlier black, green and gold - guess that's because the colour the diesels were when they first appeared in my area. I thought the black/grey on passenger cars was a bit boring, and liked it when VIA appeared with the blue coaches with gold stripe.
I'm also a fan of the CNR green, yellow and black, but I'm a hugh fan of the CN noodle schemes. Although I found the VIA blue and yellow stripes a bit boring compared the the black and gray still a nice scheme though. I grew up in Newfoundland in the 80's and most of the equipment had the noodle or the arrows logo of CN subsidiary TerraTransport. What was left of the Newfoundland passenger fleet, mostly coach cars, was in black and gray paint and the cars either had the red CN noodle or red TT arrows. There were still a few cars in storage (cannibalized for parts to keep the few passenger cars and maintenance of way ex passenger cars running) in the green black and yellow.
The biggest problem on the f units in the original stripe scheme was that the stripes all went one way. A couple of times in the video, it looks odd when one unit is cut in backwards. I guess that’s why the stripes alternated directions on the 70s “zebra” scheme.
Thank you for the video! I live in Winnipeg and my father was also a CNR conductor out of Winnipeg. Has brought back a lot of nice memories from my youth.
Yes he did have a lot of stories. As a kid I was really interested in the railroad and he indulged me by answering my questions after each of his trips😀. He started braking in 1945 and retired in 1985, so was part of the transition from steam to diesel. So lots of stories 😀
I have to admit that I have not really given this idea a lot of thought. Maybe when I retire I will consider this. One story which I can tell you relates to your video and involved both my father and I. Around the time your video was filmed, the train dispatchers office was located on the second floor of Union Station (there is no longer an RTC in Winnipeg). I was around 10 or so and on one occasion my father took me up to the dispatchers office. One of the dispatchers let me push the button that cleared the CTC sign for the west bound Super Continental at a station as it headed to Winnipeg. That was many years ago and I still remember it vividly 😄
@@randysouthall5070 That is definitely the sort of thing a 10 year old would remember. How thrilling for you, thinking of all those crew members and passengers depending upon you pushing the right button.
I see no problem with the video quality. Looks great to me and great views of the huge station and train sheds. That's classic! I've never been to Canada
Thanks for sharing. I love traveling by train. We were lucky enough to try the VIA Prestige service from Vancouver to Winnipeg 2 years ago. Loved everthing but the price.
Just enjoy the trains you see now. I pretty much missed out on the steam trains my dad admired, but I'm glad I was trackside to capture what was in front of me.
Thank you for your comment. I notice your handle, Bullet Nose Betty. I had a friend who called his HO model Bullet Nose Betsy, which I thought was wrong.
Reminds me of my childhood when watching the trains at Ste-Foy station (Québec City) , part of the Montréal-Q.C. gare du Palais line). Or when I saw the train in Chicoutimi, now a bike path, in the late 60s, early 70s. CN was still the passenger service.
It does. I love trains and those of that era brings back nice memories.There's a link of the last train in Chicoutimi: th-cam.com/video/fb4d8PilA04/w-d-xo.html. Even though I was qui te young, I still remember the CN black and red passenger trains. As for the bike path, you would have to travel all the way to Saguenay,Québec. Quite far if you live out west.
Thanks for the link. I wonder if all those folk waving to the train were like my dad: loved to see trains but seldom or never rode them, then screamed when VIA cut off the service?? (Lovely to hear French spoken again.)
I believe the train service lost its popularity due to bus services.. unfortunately.When I go on youtube and through all kinds of archives, I realize the lines were busy at one point.But some lines such as the Québec City-Chicoutimi one took quite long.. I have to admit here.It was actually the long out of the way milk run. The only one left is the Montréal-Jonquière one and it's not everyday, but three times a day I believe.And it's a small consist of one bagage car and one passenger,period. But as for me, I travel by train all the time to Ste-Foy (Québec City,) from Montréal, but also to Ottawa,Rimouski,Toronto if need be.)I'd never go back to coaches, event though nowadays ones are comfier, but nothing beats the train obviously and sure enough!! Voilà cher ami.
You remind me of the call to board in Winnipeg's Union Station: Train No. 1, the Super Continental is now ready for boarding, to Saskatoon, Edmonton, etc. That was the exciting moment when I knew CN would take care of me all the way to Vancouver.
Very enjoyable footage. @ 9:41 with Trudeau in the GG's cars: was that the infamous "bird flipping" tour?! The GG's cars, BTW, had royal blue along the window sashes instead of the CN black.
I’ve watched this video several times over the last year couple of years. Love it! Did you add in the audio and background music? If so, where did the music come from? Thanks.
maybe it'd been the 900-mile detour from Ton o' rot -- ended up plying Lake Superior's dual-tracked gorgeous north shore..! -- that let that intensely bright prairie sun give my adolescent self nasty vertigo when we stepped off the train after three days spent aboard it, it'd crippled me...we'd missed two trains from Montreal to hook up to because we were 27 hours late...and that horde of yankee retirees aboard, freaking out about Skylab possibly crashing onto them AT ANY MOMENT
and now -- of all times (since) -- telling that many must've survived the great depression ever so comfortably if Skylab's nasty prospect signify grueling hardship...those retirees' flippancy still bewilders me, I suppose
As a teenager several of us during various summers would ride our bikes to train yards throughout Greater Vancouver and our favorite spot was the Terminal Avenue off Main St due to the large number of trains coming and going. We would get into, onto and under all kinds of cars of any variety sometimes being chased by conductors or other staff.
Does anyone know the history of that one "taller" coach? I used to notice it on the Super Continental regularly--maybe there were several of them. You'll see it around 8:37 minutes to 8:41 minutes on this video. Its roof is taller than the others.
It is a heavyweight car that has been streamlined. CN had a number of them. By it’s position it is likely a club car or diner. They had 12-1 heavyweight tourist sleepers but those would be at the front end.
From the looks mid/late 70's. Starting in 1976 the VIA blue & yellow started to appear on CN trains than by late 77/early 78 VIA was spun off into a separate crown corporation, VIA Rail Canada .
Curt Wakeman our family took the SC from Wpg to Van and back in the summer of 1980 and I don't remember any CN paint on those trains so I'd say most of this is 70s. A fine look back on early VIA operations and the subtle changes in Downtown Winnipeg... outside of The Forks, which is just off camera to the right. Neat to see the CN VIA branding on the passenger cars. I'd only ever seen yellow nosed cab units with red noodles from that era.
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Rode the super contential in 1971 from Vancouver to Toronto and had a upper berth on leave from the military, was quite the ride for a 18 year old
Thanks for sharing your experience. I've never taken a berth, always a roomette on those long trips.
The video quality looks good to me.
Summer of 1965 my family went from Toronto to Vancouver on the "Canadian" CP route through Banff. Came back Vancouver to Toronto on the "Super Continental" CN route through Jasper. Wow what great memories.
When i was a kid , and train crazy! a view of the Cab, inside of the Engine, was the Holy Grail! and here you have it right on film! And to sit in the enginers seat, was like, winning the lottery!
Yes, that was exciting. I've since sat in the Engineer's seat in museum static displays, but it's not the same as having the prime mover idling behind you.
Oh the memories! As a little girl, I travelled 3 times from Montreal to Vancouver return on the Super Continental. Hands down the best times of my childhood in the 60's.
as a child i used to walk to a nearby park (that wouldn't be unusual for a child in the 70's) by the tracks at a time i knew a train would be going by . the black and white train cars i am seeing in this video (and haven't seen since) are what i saw at the time. thanks for posting.
Thank you for sharing that memory. What city or town was that near?
@@robertramsay5963 st catharines. the train connected niagara falls to toronto.
@@mikeure1528 Lucky you. You probably saw many more passenger trains than I did at our little country station, Rivers, MB.
In 1957 as a 12 yr old Boy Scout I went on a 2 week canoe trip in Algonquin Park, the CNR Montreal -Sudbury Line went through the park and every night the Westbound Montreal section of the Super passed, still daylight until nearly 10pm but I didn’t have a camera then, alas the train and the rail line are both gone.
Pity you didn't have a camera as you'd have taken some awesome photos of it passing through cottage country. At least you have the memories. Thanks for sharing that one.
Many years ago, I took the Super from Toronto to Vancouver and back. I used to work for CN Telecommunications, so I had a pass that got me on the train, but I had to pay for the sleeper. As I recall, back in those days, they had separate Toronto and Montreal trains in the summer, but joined them in Capreol, Ont. during the winter. When my work had me in town, my co-workers and I had to pass through the train, when we went for coffee in the morning.
Oh how wonderful! I didn't want it to end! Amazing footage and the quality wasn't all that bad either ... thoroughly enjoyed the "trip" back in time. Great to have the visual memories and thanks so much for sharing!
I'm pleased that you enjoyed it and that it gave you a wee trip back in time.
Love when the Burrard or Bedford cars are on the tail end. Makes the train complete.
Grew up in Winnipeg in the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. Lots of familiar landmarks and the echoes of train whistles at all times of the day or night still bounce around in my brain. Thanks for posting this. Good job.
This takes me back to my early teen years as I had a lot of what I saw here in HO scale. I would save my paper route money to buy those beautiful CN coaches and F units one at a time. Thanks for the memories!
Glad the movies I took in the past prompted happy memories. I had N Scale for awhile, including some CN coaches in the colours seen here, and a couple of F units.
Great job on the video. Thank you for your time and letting me see this. Thank you!
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you so much Robert bringing back memories...even though I never went on the CN Super Continental...I did ride one of the last CN passagers trains from Ottawa to Toronto 1984.
If you live "down east", did you ever ride the Turbotrain?
No I did not...I always wanted too...but never happened.....got to see it up close with my dad..when he took my to Rouge Hill Go train station 1983
When I was eight years old ,dad took me to Dauphin mb on the route to Churchill in one of those f units and passenger train 46 years ago....back then we could go along for rides. He was taken away from us at the age of 42 and i miss him still every day. Looking at your videos i try to see if i can see him..... Thanks for the vids!!
That would be cool if you could see your dad in one of my vids.
That would make my year sir!
Re the MILW sleeper question, Yes. CN purchased some MILW Super Domes, Skytop Sleeper-observation cars and sleepers in 1964.
Thanks for the info. I knew about the superdomes and the skytop cars, but hadn't been aware of the sleepers until you and others have noted it here.
I sure wish we can still have a choice of choosing between the Canadian and the Super Continental today when it comes to transcontinental train travel across Canada, in addition to being able to take the train from Ottawa or Montreal directly to Western Canada and Vancouver without having to switch trains at Toronto.
Note: The route of the Canadian today (A product of the 1990 budget cuts to VIA Rail) is the route of the old Super Continental on the CN Rail line.
If things were my way, VIA Rail will still be operating BOTH the Canadian and the Super Continental today with the following differences: For instance, Ottawa Union Station in downtown Ottawa will still be active today and like the Canadian, the Super Continental will have two different branches (Vancouver-Toronto and Vancouver-Ottawa-Montreal), with the Super Continental's Vancouver-Ottawa-Montreal train branching off from the CN line prior to reaching Sudbury, and serve North Bay, Algonquin Provincial Park, Pembroke, and then Ottawa and Montreal through the Beachburg Subdivision and the Alexandria Subdivision.
I agree with you. CPR used to have through sleepers and divide the train at Sudbury, I believe. I suppose CNR did the same at Capreol though I never travelled that route until after VIA took it over.
Thanks for the reply, and I see.
Huh. I never figured that CP Rail actually divided the Canadian when the train arrived at Sudbury. For a while, I kept thinking that the Canadian alternates between travelling to Toronto and to Montreal, though I suppose that was the mode VIA Rail employed after they took over the operations in the late 1970s.
By the way, I've written a story on FanFiction.net set in the summer of 1970 that depicts the Scooby-Doo gang travelling to Canada the first time, where they rode on the Canadian and got off at Ottawa for its annual SuperEX, and in the first chapter, I did a detail explanation of the train route east of Sudbury.
One thing to note is that initially, I did thought that the Canadian was divided at Sudbury with one train carrying on to Toronto while the other continues on to Ottawa and Montreal, though I eventually edited the chapter to depict the Canadian as alternating between travelling to Toronto and to Montreal. I didn't realize that the division of the train was actually the case when CP Rail ran it until you mentioned it in your reply.
From 1978-81, VIA ran the Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver while the Super Continental went Montreal Vancouver. Cars were switched between the two in Winnipeg. The Super was cut in 81 and the Sudbury switch was reintroduced on the Canadian. In 85 the Super came back, but only Winnipeg to Vancouver.
@@robertramsay5963 In the late sixties- early 70's CNR divided the eastbound train @ Capreol...one going to Montreal via North Bay and the Ottawa Valley and the other to Toronto....Westbound trains joined up in Capreol...when I was a kid, I rode it from Montreal to Vancouver and Vancouver to Toronto... I remember to this day it being taken apart/put together @ Capreol
@@garfieldstephensonwu142 CP split the train in Sudbury...at the downtown yard... 1/2 went to NorthBay and Montreal, the other half went to Toronto. Westbound trains joined up in Sudbury. CNR chopped/merged their train in Capreol.
Thanks for sharing your memory.
Great scenes from Winnipeg. They bring back some great memories. Thanks.
Glad you enjoy viewing it.
Ich war 1975 auch auf dem CN „Super Continental“ als ich von Montreal nach Jasper in die „Jasper Park Lodge“, welche damals ein CN Hotel war,zur Arbeit fuhr. Super schöne Erinnerungen werden mit diesem Video wieder wach.
Ich habe meine jetztige Frau durch CN in Jasper gefunden und leben jetzt wieder in der Schweiz.
Ganz herzlichen Dank.
Vielen Dank für das Teilen Ihrer Erinnerungen. Ich schätze, viele junge Leute haben Sommerjobs in der Jasper Park Lodge und anderen Eisenbahnhotels gefunden. Und was für ein Bonus - Ihre Frau dort zu finden.
I traveled on Super C many times VCR-TOR both ways including when they added ex-Milwaukee Road Super-Dome as far as Edmonton. In 1964 I traveled Ottawa-Montreal on a brand new coach-lounge from Canadian Car & Foundry they were taking to MTL to be put on Super C that afternoon. There were even screws on window sill that workmen had left behind!
That would have been cool. Those superdomes were fine cars. Have all the ones CN had been scrapped?
Historically this is priceless! I love our country! Stay safe all!
Always a treat to see full motion video of my favorite passenger train! That footage at Rivers is as perfect as possible, you can tell the entire consist, and yes, that's an Ex-Milwaukee Road 10-6, coupled to another 10-6 from Florida East Coast, and Mount Robson second from the rear. Thankyou so much!
Thanks for confirming my Milwaukee suspicions.
The world's most beautiful train. People may disagree, but my younger self holding a toy Super C wouldn't have it any other way.
Cool, that you had a model of the Super C. Was it HO or N scale?
What an awesome video especially the Manitoba footage
Glad you enjoyed it. The Super C was a classy looking train, I thought.
Gotta love the CN black, lite gray and red livery
Yes, I liked the diagonal swatches on the locos and the red noses, though my heart yearns for the earlier black, green and gold - guess that's because the colour the diesels were when they first appeared in my area. I thought the black/grey on passenger cars was a bit boring, and liked it when VIA appeared with the blue coaches with gold stripe.
I'm also a fan of the CNR green, yellow and black, but I'm a hugh fan of the CN noodle schemes. Although I found the VIA blue and yellow stripes a bit boring compared the the black and gray still a nice scheme though. I grew up in Newfoundland in the 80's and most of the equipment had the noodle or the arrows logo of CN subsidiary TerraTransport. What was left of the Newfoundland passenger fleet, mostly coach cars, was in black and gray paint and the cars either had the red CN noodle or red TT arrows. There were still a few cars in storage (cannibalized for parts to keep the few passenger cars and maintenance of way ex passenger cars running) in the green black and yellow.
The biggest problem on the f units in the original stripe scheme was that the stripes all went one way. A couple of times in the video, it looks odd when one unit is cut in backwards. I guess that’s why the stripes alternated directions on the 70s “zebra” scheme.
I thought CN's Sixties livery distinctive and mod...and then mere corporateers chez Via ditched the legacy by way of garish plastic
Thank you for the video! I live in Winnipeg and my father was also a CNR conductor out of Winnipeg. Has brought back a lot of nice memories from my youth.
Thanks for the note. Did your father have lots of interesting railway stories?
Yes he did have a lot of stories. As a kid I was really interested in the railroad and he indulged me by answering my questions after each of his trips😀. He started braking in 1945 and retired in 1985, so was part of the transition from steam to diesel. So lots of stories 😀
@@randysouthall5070 Have you considered writing them down or recording them on CD for the rest of us to enjoy?
I have to admit that I have not really given this idea a lot of thought. Maybe when I retire I will consider this. One story which I can tell you relates to your video and involved both my father and I. Around the time your video was filmed, the train dispatchers office was located on the second floor of Union Station (there is no longer an RTC in Winnipeg). I was around 10 or so and on one occasion my father took me up to the dispatchers office. One of the dispatchers let me push the button that cleared the CTC sign for the west bound Super Continental at a station as it headed to Winnipeg. That was many years ago and I still remember it vividly 😄
@@randysouthall5070 That is definitely the sort of thing a 10 year old would remember. How thrilling for you, thinking of all those crew members and passengers depending upon you pushing the right button.
I see no problem with the video quality. Looks great to me and great views of the huge station and train sheds. That's classic! I've never been to Canada
Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for sharing. I love traveling by train. We were lucky enough to try the VIA Prestige service from Vancouver to Winnipeg 2 years ago. Loved everthing but the price.
Yes, you almost need to take out a mortgage.
Great video ! Thanks for posting
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the trip back in time.
Listen Everyone I'm a 2000s kid, I don't have the nostalgia everyone else is having but I wish I was there to see the Super Continental
Just enjoy the trains you see now. I pretty much missed out on the steam trains my dad admired, but I'm glad I was trackside to capture what was in front of me.
The Westcoast Railway Museum in Squamish BC just completed restoring FP9 #6520 back to the CN Zebra scheme it's absolutely beautiful!
Great job. There's some real memories in that video.
Thank you for your comment. I notice your handle, Bullet Nose Betty. I had a friend who called his HO model Bullet Nose Betsy, which I thought was wrong.
@@robertramsay5963 Bullet Nose Betty was CNR 6060.
Ya that would definitely make my year😁
Reminds me of my childhood when watching the trains at Ste-Foy station (Québec City) , part of the Montréal-Q.C. gare du Palais line). Or when I saw the train in Chicoutimi, now a bike path, in the late 60s, early 70s. CN was still the passenger service.
I'm glad it brought back happy memories to you. I'll have to check out the bike path. I enjoy riding former rail lines on my bike.
It does. I love trains and those of that era brings back nice memories.There's a link of the last train in Chicoutimi: th-cam.com/video/fb4d8PilA04/w-d-xo.html. Even though I was qui te young, I still remember the CN black and red passenger trains. As for the bike path, you would have to travel all the way to Saguenay,Québec. Quite far if you live out west.
Thanks for the link. I wonder if all those folk waving to the train were like my dad: loved to see trains but seldom or never rode them, then screamed when VIA cut off the service?? (Lovely to hear French spoken again.)
I believe the train service lost its popularity due to bus services.. unfortunately.When I go on youtube and through all kinds of archives, I realize the lines were busy at one point.But some lines such as the Québec City-Chicoutimi one took quite long.. I have to admit here.It was actually the long out of the way milk run. The only one left is the Montréal-Jonquière one and it's not everyday, but three times a day I believe.And it's a small consist of one bagage car and one passenger,period. But as for me, I travel by train all the time to Ste-Foy (Québec City,) from Montréal, but also to Ottawa,Rimouski,Toronto if need be.)I'd never go back to coaches, event though nowadays ones are comfier, but nothing beats the train obviously and sure enough!! Voilà cher ami.
Attention : Canadian National super continental ,train number 1, is arriving from the east to Hinton, Jasper, Kamloops, and Vancouver. All Aboard
You remind me of the call to board in Winnipeg's Union Station: Train No. 1, the Super Continental is now ready for boarding, to Saskatoon, Edmonton, etc. That was the exciting moment when I knew CN would take care of me all the way to Vancouver.
Absolutely great stuff. I just found some CN electric m.u. footage, that I’m about to post.
That footage must be from Montreal, is it?
Very enjoyable footage. @ 9:41 with Trudeau in the GG's cars: was that the infamous "bird flipping" tour?! The GG's cars, BTW, had royal blue along the window sashes instead of the CN black.
I don't recall whether that was the "finger waving trip" or not.
Love those f units
Make sure to give the one finger salute! 9:36
I’ve watched this video several times over the last year couple of years. Love it! Did you add in the audio and background music? If so, where did the music come from? Thanks.
Yes, the sound was added because the movies were super 8 silent. If you replay the video to 36 seconds you'll see the link to where I got the sounds.
Must be the early days of the VIA Rail paint scheme from 1976-1977.
Yes, that seems about right though I don't have exact dates.
maybe it'd been the 900-mile detour from Ton o' rot -- ended up plying Lake Superior's dual-tracked gorgeous north shore..! -- that let that intensely bright prairie sun give my adolescent self nasty vertigo when we stepped off the train after three days spent aboard it, it'd crippled me...we'd missed two trains from Montreal to hook up to because we were 27 hours late...and that horde of yankee retirees aboard, freaking out about Skylab possibly crashing onto them AT ANY MOMENT
That's quite the story.
and now -- of all times (since) -- telling that many must've survived the great depression ever so comfortably if Skylab's nasty prospect signify grueling hardship...those retirees' flippancy still bewilders me, I suppose
As a teenager several of us during various summers would ride our bikes to train yards throughout Greater Vancouver and our favorite spot was the Terminal Avenue off Main St due to the large number of trains coming and going. We would get into, onto and under all kinds of cars of any variety sometimes being chased by conductors or other staff.
Lucky you still have all four limbs, but must have been great fun.
Does anyone know the history of that one "taller" coach? I used to notice it on the Super Continental regularly--maybe there were several of them. You'll see it around 8:37 minutes to 8:41 minutes on this video. Its roof is taller than the others.
It is a heavyweight car that has been streamlined. CN had a number of them. By it’s position it is likely a club car or diner. They had 12-1 heavyweight tourist sleepers but those would be at the front end.
Thanks for the info.
Amazing footage! What year? Looks like 1979-80 to me
You're in the right ballpark - the films spanned quite a few years, probably from about 1973 onwards.
From the looks mid/late 70's. Starting in 1976 the VIA blue & yellow started to appear on CN trains than by late 77/early 78 VIA was spun off into a separate crown corporation, VIA Rail Canada .
Curt Wakeman our family took the SC from Wpg to Van and back in the summer of 1980 and I don't remember any CN paint on those trains so I'd say most of this is 70s. A fine look back on early VIA operations and the subtle changes in Downtown Winnipeg... outside of The Forks, which is just off camera to the right. Neat to see the CN VIA branding on the passenger cars. I'd only ever seen yellow nosed cab units with red noodles from that era.