Paul Brochner I agree! TH-cam can be horribly frustrating sometimes but every once in a while you run across a gem like this which keeps me coming back.
C Farnwide I think that frustration fades with time and use, I almost forgot that feeling as one of these 'gems' leads to another. The advertising gradually increases but so far that's a fairly small price to pay given that anyone can supply content on any topic.
When I was in Anchorage in the Coast Guard, I frequented the Alaska Railroad's shops and yards often. It was a time I will never forget and will appreciate the rest of my life! Thank you so much for producing this documentary, it is rich with our heritage that many take for granted.
The work that goes into building something like a railroad through this insane terrain is just astonishing. These are among my favorite types of documentaries- where you get to see how hard work turns into a wonder of the world. When I can’t sleep sometimes I think about being a railroad hand, perhaps working on flattening dynamiting/blasting into the side of a mountain, sheltering after a hard day at work while the wind screams and whips at a makeshift cabin in the night.
This is absolutely magnificent, we are so grateful for the work put into this production. The amount of information is quite fantastic and appreciated by us. Long may the remaining railways of this area continue.
I spent the summer in Nome in 1974, and brought home a few spikes from an abandoned railroad track outside of town. Thanks for posting. It brought back memories.
We're Australian & like to get away from the summer sun. My wife and I went to Alaska 2016, beginning of March, late winter. What an amazingly wonderful place. Travelled from Faibanks to to Anchorage by train. Wow! We would love to go back. The animals, birds, Northern Lights, scenery, people-------yes, we want to go back again.
Jim Eustice I'm American and I like Aussie's. I'm glad you liked visiting one of our states. I hope you get the chance to return , you are welcome always :)
It's amazing how fast major infrastructure can degrade and be lost except for photos and documentation. Very nice to see some of it preserved, recorded and shared like this.
There is a huge amount of detailed information in this programme, and doubtless I shall need to watch it more than once to absorb it all. I hadn't realised the many threads of history that connect, overlap, come and go during this fascinating era. The presenters are all gifted communicators and the information is presented without lots of hype and hyperbole that many modern programmes seem to deem essential to emphasise the history or the enormity of the subject. It is extremely enjoyable, as well as informative. I acknowledge that I have a reputation for being a stuffy Brit, with a passion for "Good English", and it is with that prejudice that I commend the programme-makers and the erudite contributors for their clear, eloquent descriptions. I'm so impressed that I have subscribed! Well done! And more of the same, please!
Excellent! The truck companies complaining about unfair competition no doubt conveniently forget that they don't have to maintain their own infrastructures. The railway does. Long life and prosperity to the Alaska Railroad.
Exactly, the railroads maintain their own infrastructure while heavy semi-trucks pound the highway to destruction while taxpayers pay for fixing or building new ones.
I'm a Seattle native and used to work for a time as a tour guide along the waterfront. It's amazing how much the gold rush affected that city. Even more amazing to think of what those people went through to get up there. Talk about working for your money!
A++ Video !! I learned so much more about Alaska's history and heritage from this presentation. I knew of about 6 or 7 railroads before but never knew there had been 26 !! Some of the old B&W photo's and film footage are just amazing. I am smarter today than i was yesterday after watching this. Liked & Subscribed :)
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Clement of Kindness: The only thing missing from 100 yrs ago, and today, is the initiative of man. 100 yrs from now, no one will want to get out of bed.
There is an element of truth there---now we have the "welfare state" where many are content to sit on their ass and let the working taxpayer support them. What does programs like Section 8 cost the American taxpayer every year? The cost must be staggering while the "do gooders" hand out somebody else's money like it comes from a bottomless pit. North America, Western Europe, it's all the same, taxes keep climbing to support those that don't work and don't want to work.
The Klondike Mines railroad had four steam locomotives. Three of them are still in Dawson, inside a shed. The fourth engine is now in Colorado, running (slowly and infrequently) in Como, sheltering in the Como roundhouse.
Я так долго искал материалы об истории железных дорог в Аляске, и наконец-то нашёл! I looking for material about history railroads in Alaska and finally I found it with help Google recommendatoin! Thanx for subtitles too)
My wife and I took the AKRR from Anchorage back home to Squarebanks in 2002, early April. There were no cruise ship cars, just the AKRR cars. Food was good, and seeing the "town" of Sherman and others like it was quite interesting. It's pretty cool that you can stock up on groceries and supplies, and put them in the baggage car, and get them dropped off right by your house in the Bush.
I've always figured that we're just soft on the outside. The metal is still there, deep in our bones, we just haven't been through the furnace that turns iron to steel.
My great Uncle was a Capt in US Army and Chief Signal Corps Officer on railroad project to Alaska..he was with Harding on first train ride into Alaska on that rail line...I have his tickets and paperwork from that trip with the President...Harding dies shortly after the trip in San Francisco, CAL..
You may not know that the Baldwin 4-6-0 No. 152 built in 1919 for the AEC is still operating. It is at Flint, MI since 1976. It is Huckleberry RR No. 2(152). It shares powering the train with D&RGW No. 464 one of two K-27 Mikados still in existence and both are operable.
Great video! Loved how it went through so much of the history of railroads across Alaska and the Klondike as well as the modern, including ideas for future expansion. I hope they are able to someday extend the lines. It would really open up parts of Alaska to the tourist industry.
The White Pass railway is amazing, very fun to ride today ( you can see the old Chilkoot trail from the railway high in the mountain). Could you imagine how hard it was to walk the Chilkoot trail to get to Bennet B.C. before the White Pass Railroad, It must of been hell. From Bennet you could take the Lake by boat into Yukon Territory is my understanding, but still quite a journey to get to Yukon Territory Gold. Their are still operating Gold mines in Yukon Territory today, all in private hands. I Imagine most people didn't make it through the Chilkoot Trail before giving up and turning around.
Videos, documentaries like this fascinate me. Until you actually ride on a steam locomotive train You can't really appreciate the beauty of them. I could only dream of making it to Alaska for a scenic trip on the rails.
The Council City & Solomon River (21:15) used second-hand 0-4-4 Forneys bought from the Manhattan elevated railroads. When the els in New York were electrified in 1902-3, hundreds of these sturdy, well-maintained locomotives became available. They were sold to companies all over the world, for use by industry, mining, logging, construction, and short lines. The three rusting hulks shown at the end of this segment had previously spent decades making tens of thousands of trips from South Ferry north along Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth avenues in Manhattan and into The Bronx, hauling untold millions of New Yorkers to and from work.
While working on the Alaska Marine Highway . The pursuer & I drove up the old railway & the purser found a news paper with the headlines of Poncho Villa on the front page. This was in 1972 or 1973.
A great piece of history, and a lesson that the government is also responsible for keeping the roots of their people visible to the current and future generations, instead of incentivating teens to smoke joints and forget where they came from....
Can you give a credible example of any government 'incentivating' teens to smoke joints and forget where they came from.... 'incentivating'?????? . *What* *a* *twat*. When you make up stereotypes, at least try to get your adjectives right.
This is a great video. Thank you so much, especially to the person who put this together. This is a must see for all train enthusiasts. Thank you again.
13:20 weird how in the year 1900 the video quality was soo good not to mention many people are wearing cloths of today like silk screen shirts and baggy shorts as if it were the 1990s not 1900....
The pictures are posed because cameras needed a long exposure to get a picture. But just as with phone cams, the images are good quality when given enough light.
A very interesting and comprehensive documentary. It does need to be sorted out though as the format is wrong, it shouldn’t be stretched - especially when you are looking at narrow gauge railways. The other major problem is the extremely low level audio. It would be a great idea to fix these two things as the documentary deserves it.
@@TheWoodyNash there is not one drop of liberal blood in my body but my hearing is damaged and sometimes it's hard for me to hear over the music.. I have computer geek working on a soundbar so I can run programs through a computer and turn the music down on everything I watch..
John Holley is absolutely right in his enthusiasm for this documentary. Outstanding combination of entertainment and education. Marvellous range of old photographs. As a Brit I was a bit lost with some of the location maps. Tasmanian mining railways deserve similar treatment if the same sort of historians and commentators could be found.
I think there is only one steam engine left, and it's being restored. If you go on White pass, the locomotive will be a Diesel Electric engine designed to run on 3' narrow scale track. It's a pretty smooth ride actually.
Looks the White Pass when fully completed went all the way to Whitehorse, Yukon. I took the Railway from Carcross, Yukon back to Skagway Alaska. Bennet B.C. was on the trip, the only original structure that remains is an old church (was getting a new roof). And a rail station, not original building to site.
Oh for God sake, just take the locomotives that still exist and store them in a safe place. Not necessarily restore them (for now). When are we going to learn that leaving them to rot away is not preserving.
Didn't you know that the geniuses running these countries don't do anything unless they make a billion dollars. Hey lets bury toxic waste its cheaper and then we'll tax the people because the toxic planet is their fault
Many don't look that rotten considering they are up to 130 years old! They used enormously high qualities of steel for those things. That was necessary be cause these things had to be able to build up (and withstand) enormous amounts of (steam) pressure, as well as of course other forces.
in the lower 48, the interstates & airports were subsidied by the government but the passenger service was ended - replaced by Amtrak. If the railroads were also subsidied, we'd have great railroads today.
The native Alaskans who inhabit southeast Alaska are the Tlingit (pronounced Klink-it) and Haida (pronounced Hi-duh) tribes....they kinda hate each other due to the Tlingit's enslaving the Haida's many, many years ago, they literally used to own Haida tribesmen and women...you can really see that play out in Hoonah and Juneau, the animosity is thick...
I love the railroad and as a child I here in Rhode Island was always down on the main line screwing around and exploring the spurs ,buildings ,whatever and you guys and the like of you are people I admire and respect.You are a link that we all have in are blood and also something in are heads that we just cannot figure out why we have this memory we can't explain,but its there and we love it and thank you guys for what you do and have a good life.MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA
Thank you for the "Klondike" ice cream! I really wish I had one to enjoy while watching this history of the Klondike! What would you do with a klondike bar.. ahh that earworm song television commercial is still in my head..
The first container from ship to train and from train to train AS i know . Was at Urskog Hølands banen in Norway . Some km north east from Oslo. A line going from Sørumsand to skullerud .. A norrow line. Called tertitten . Now Its a museum line going some few kilometer from Sørumsand .And that container transport started around 1920.
A Narrow Gauge train at that time seem to have a low center of gravity and wouldn't you have to do more track maintenance this is a really nice video it made me think that Narrow Gauge was basically used for moving equipment materials instead of people okay now now gauge tracks makes sense to me
Here in the midwest of USA, we don't see such government financing. The interstate highways are subsidized by the feds. The feds also subsidize the airports. Our railroads are now reducted to freight - we even have the CN hauling freight...we are left with Amtrak..
Pounding spikes I had my fair share of doing that. day in and day out’ the only difference was is that we had to Drill off a nine round and load & Blast it to buy the end of the day) we’d put in a twenty foot section ever day) five thousand feet underground. And believe me it was hotter the hell down there. and ya got pretty good at driving spikes’ and laying ties you’d Only have enough time for a twenty minute lunch brake. If you took anymore time then that you wouldn’t make your Cycle for the day. If you didn’t make the cycle you were fired no questions asked’ true story my friends. You all have a great job
See! This is why I love TH-cam. You never know what you're going to find on a rainy afternoon. Facinating history up there.
Paul Brochner I agree! TH-cam can be horribly frustrating sometimes but every once in a while you run across a gem like this which keeps me coming back.
Paul Brochner 😦
C Farnwide
I think that frustration fades with time and use, I almost forgot that feeling as one of these 'gems' leads to another. The advertising gradually increases but so far that's a fairly small price to pay given that anyone can supply content on any topic.
Paul Brochne
C Farnwi
I love learning the history of railroads.
Especially railroads that are built along the ocean and in remote areas.
When I was in Anchorage in the Coast Guard, I frequented the Alaska Railroad's shops and yards often. It was a time I will never forget and will appreciate the rest of my life! Thank you so much for producing this documentary, it is rich with our heritage that many take for granted.
The work that goes into building something like a railroad through this insane terrain is just astonishing. These are among my favorite types of documentaries- where you get to see how hard work turns into a wonder of the world. When I can’t sleep sometimes I think about being a railroad hand, perhaps working on flattening dynamiting/blasting into the side of a mountain, sheltering after a hard day at work while the wind screams and whips at a makeshift cabin in the night.
You might check out "The trans-Siberian Railroad" on TH-cam.
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This is absolutely magnificent, we are so grateful for the work put into this production. The amount of information is quite fantastic and appreciated by us. Long may the remaining railways of this area continue.
I spent the summer in Nome in 1974, and brought home a few spikes from an abandoned railroad track outside of town. Thanks for posting. It brought back memories.
The summer I was born.
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We're Australian & like to get away from the summer sun. My wife and I went to Alaska 2016, beginning of March, late winter. What an amazingly wonderful place. Travelled from Faibanks to to Anchorage by train. Wow! We would love to go back. The animals, birds, Northern Lights, scenery, people-------yes, we want to go back again.
+Bootsie Collins ...please explain more...and better
Suprised u dident see me naked riding a elk while you were gazing into the country side
D Dingus I don't think he can. I think it was a rainy day for him too, only he was smoking something.
Jim Eustice I'm American and I like Aussie's. I'm glad you liked visiting one of our states. I hope you get the chance to return , you are welcome always :)
Now European become Australian oh mama where are natives look at this euorpean capitalists wowwo hahahaha
Vielen Dank allen Mitarbeitern an Kompetenz Arbeitsplätzen Bemühungen gegeben haben
Awesome docu. Greeings from New Zealand.
It's amazing how fast major infrastructure can degrade and be lost except for photos and documentation. Very nice to see some of it preserved, recorded and shared like this.
I'm afraid it's happening right now as America becomes a third world country.
@@paulross9287 Go woke go broke. "My emotions matter more than your facts."
An AWESOME documentary. Thanks for making this movie, I have really enjoyed watching it.
There is a huge amount of detailed information in this programme, and doubtless I shall need to watch it more than once to absorb it all. I hadn't realised the many threads of history that connect, overlap, come and go during this fascinating era. The presenters are all gifted communicators and the information is presented without lots of hype and hyperbole that many modern programmes seem to deem essential to emphasise the history or the enormity of the subject. It is extremely enjoyable, as well as informative. I acknowledge that I have a reputation for being a stuffy Brit, with a passion for "Good English", and it is with that prejudice that I commend the programme-makers and the erudite contributors for their clear, eloquent descriptions. I'm so impressed that I have subscribed! Well done! And more of the same, please!
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You Tube is so awesome I learn so much information about all kinds of stuff thanks U Tube
Excellent research, organization and presentation! Very enjoyable. North to Alaska!
Excellent!
The truck companies complaining about unfair competition no doubt conveniently forget that they don't have to maintain their own infrastructures. The railway does.
Long life and prosperity to the Alaska Railroad.
Exactly, the railroads maintain their own infrastructure while heavy semi-trucks pound the highway to destruction while taxpayers pay for fixing or building new ones.
I'm a Seattle native and used to work for a time as a tour guide along the waterfront. It's amazing how much the gold rush affected that city. Even more amazing to think of what those people went through to get up there. Talk about working for your money!
A++ Video !! I learned so much more about Alaska's history and heritage from this presentation. I knew of about 6 or 7 railroads before but never knew there had been 26 !! Some of the old B&W photo's and film footage are just amazing. I am smarter today than i was yesterday after watching this. Liked & Subscribed :)
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
I often use the quote .. ''In life we forget far more than we will ever remember'' ........ wish i could remember who coined the phrase?
I wish I had been born 100 years earlier, when America was truly great. The abilities and determination of people then were staggering.
You would probably have died from typus by now.
Ha! You are probably right!
Typhus, smallpox, and Jim Crow comes to mind...
Clement of Kindness: The only thing missing from 100 yrs ago, and today, is the initiative of man. 100 yrs from now, no one will want to get out of bed.
There is an element of truth there---now we have the "welfare state" where many are content to sit on their ass and let the working taxpayer support them. What does programs like Section 8 cost the American taxpayer every year? The cost must be staggering while the "do gooders" hand out somebody else's money like it comes from a bottomless pit. North America, Western Europe, it's all the same, taxes keep climbing to support those that don't work and don't want to work.
Very interesting program. Thanks for the post.
Wonderful history lesson! 👍
Thanks for uploading this great piece of documentary film.
From Talkeetna heading north, I hand flagged the train many times back in the 80s and 90s. (then I discovered snow machines)
I want to go and live there
@@theisononthecake63 Sounds awesome!
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Outstanding video... Particularly for oldsters like me who grew up in the 1930s & 1940s riding in trains pulled by steam locomotives....
The Klondike Mines railroad had four steam locomotives. Three of them are still in Dawson, inside a shed. The fourth engine is now in Colorado, running (slowly and infrequently) in Como, sheltering in the Como roundhouse.
Interesting, what company owns the como roundhouse?
Я так долго искал материалы об истории железных дорог в Аляске, и наконец-то нашёл!
I looking for material about history railroads in Alaska and finally I found it with help Google recommendatoin! Thanx for subtitles too)
This is a great documentary, the outro song is so amazing too, I really wish I knew the name but I can't find it despite a lot of searching.
My wife and I took the AKRR from Anchorage back home to Squarebanks in 2002, early April. There were no cruise ship cars, just the AKRR cars. Food was good, and seeing the "town" of Sherman and others like it was quite interesting. It's pretty cool that you can stock up on groceries and supplies, and put them in the baggage car, and get them dropped off right by your house in the Bush.
You mean "Bearflanks" right?
What a great documentary!
Great video!! Extremely informative!! Thank you so much!!
Thanks for a great doc. Love RR history 🤩
Unfathomable that today's (soft) people are descendants of these tough SOBs, especially including myself. Great documentary!
I've always figured that we're just soft on the outside. The metal is still there, deep in our bones, we just haven't been through the furnace that turns iron to steel.
Hope you include your self in that bro!
Great tour through Alaskan history.
I've worked on several different Rail systems in Montana in the '60s & '70s.
Love this downloading and always watching 😅😊😊😊
Railroads to Nowhere! Uncle Ted would be proud!
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thanks for uploading very informative. wish the Railroads here in ireland had as much doc history saved
Awesome documentary thanks for posting this
I miss Alaska
Rode this from Anchorage to Denali what an amazing beautiful trip!!
My great Uncle was a Capt in US Army and Chief Signal Corps Officer on railroad project to Alaska..he was with Harding on first train ride into Alaska on that rail line...I have his tickets and paperwork from that trip with the President...Harding dies shortly after the trip in San Francisco, CAL..
You may not know that the Baldwin 4-6-0 No. 152 built in 1919 for the AEC is still operating. It is at Flint, MI since 1976. It is Huckleberry RR No. 2(152). It shares powering the train with D&RGW No. 464 one of two K-27 Mikados still in existence and both are operable.
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Huh. The stuff you learn. I thought all the Mikados were gone!
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Roy Reynolds I'm from michigan and have had the opportunity to ride on it, great peice of history
Actually $152 was built in 1920.
What a terrific documentary. Thank you!
Excellent video. Thank you
Those box-cabbed climaxes are amazing. One of those would be a looker on any heritage line today. I wonder if any survive
Great video! Loved how it went through so much of the history of railroads across Alaska and the Klondike as well as the modern, including ideas for future expansion. I hope they are able to someday extend the lines. It would really open up parts of Alaska to the tourist industry.
J.A. Marlow Excellent out look to understanding travel and building of it Thx Have great day
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Alaska does not need to become another Hawaii.
@@jimclark6256 If the ocean levels rise, it just might
Well done thank you , very cool vintage film also
For the pocket doors, use 2 drawer slides, one on top and bottom. That will minimize wall width and cost per door
Excellent document !
The White Pass railway is amazing, very fun to ride today ( you can see the old Chilkoot trail from the railway high in the mountain). Could you imagine how hard it was to walk the Chilkoot trail to get to Bennet B.C. before the White Pass Railroad, It must of been hell. From Bennet you could take the Lake by boat into Yukon Territory is my understanding, but still quite a journey to get to Yukon Territory Gold. Their are still operating Gold mines in Yukon Territory today, all in private hands. I Imagine most people didn't make it through the Chilkoot Trail before giving up and turning around.
Looks like Bennet Lake runs into the Yukon River, the Yukon River then takes you to Dawson City, but like a 500 mile journey on the lake and river.
You were seeing the White Pass Trail from the WP&YR train. The Chilkoot Trail started in Dyea.
Videos, documentaries like this fascinate me. Until you actually ride on a steam locomotive train You can't really appreciate the beauty of them. I could only dream of making it to Alaska for a scenic trip on the rails.
chris spencer yes its a nice brake from all the porn ive been watching lately
I really enjoyed this.
That was great keep it up Alaska. There shouldn’t be more railroads in the world with your vision for the future. Well done
Thanks a whole lot . . for a most thorough and interesting movie.
Wish you all a merry new year
Torben, Denmark
its not just a video, but a ticket ride to the valley, i felt as if i was in coach of the train,post more videos, excellant sir
The Council City & Solomon River (21:15) used second-hand 0-4-4 Forneys bought from the Manhattan elevated railroads. When the els in New York were electrified in 1902-3, hundreds of these sturdy, well-maintained locomotives became available. They were sold to companies all over the world, for use by industry, mining, logging, construction, and short lines. The three rusting hulks shown at the end of this segment had previously spent decades making tens of thousands of trips from South Ferry north along Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth avenues in Manhattan and into The Bronx, hauling untold millions of New Yorkers to and from work.
Awesome doc! Great stuff!!
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Wonderful video, really enjoyed it, thank you for all your efforts.
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Great video, thanks for sharing!
Fantastic. Thank you
Dan Bross THANK You so very much for the History narrative PJEFF LI N.Y.
While working on the Alaska Marine Highway . The pursuer & I drove up the old railway & the purser found a news paper with the headlines of Poncho Villa on the front page. This was in 1972 or 1973.
Cool video I live in Fairbanks been to all the towns they talk about. Awesome place to live 👍🏻
Very interesting ideas
A great piece of history, and a lesson that the government is also responsible for keeping the roots of their people visible to the current and future generations, instead of incentivating teens to smoke joints and forget where they came from....
Can you give a credible example of any government 'incentivating' teens to smoke joints and forget where they came from.... 'incentivating'?????? . *What* *a* *twat*. When you make up stereotypes, at least try to get your adjectives right.
Really enjoyed that
This is a great video. Thank you so much, especially to the person who put this together. This is a must see for all train enthusiasts. Thank you again.
13:20 weird how in the year 1900 the video quality was soo good not to mention many people are wearing cloths of today like silk screen shirts and baggy shorts as if it were the 1990s not 1900....
The pictures are posed because cameras needed a long exposure to get a picture. But just as with phone cams, the images are good quality when given enough light.
Wow
..so informative
A very interesting and comprehensive documentary. It does need to be sorted out though as the format is wrong, it shouldn’t be stretched - especially when you are looking at narrow gauge railways. The other major problem is the extremely low level audio. It would be a great idea to fix these two things as the documentary deserves it.
Well done sir.
My dad worked on this railroad laying track in the late 50's.
My twin brother and I used to ride on top of the coal in the tender on the little Baldwin locomotive headed t the Situk(See-tuk) fiver from Yakutat.
What years was this?
Great video!
I wonder if the dredge shown at 56:00 is the same dredge owned by Tony Beets on the show Goldrush on the Discovery Channel.
We were lucky to acquire Alaska 👍
Sled dogs pulling a train? That is even funnier than Garfield making Odie into a sled dog!!
Good video, very interesting. I wish the music wasn't so loud, made it harder to hear the history.
Loud music? GD Liberal Snowflake will complain if you use a new rope to hang em.
@@TheWoodyNash there is not one drop of liberal blood in my body but my hearing is damaged and sometimes it's hard for me to hear over the music.. I have computer geek working on a soundbar so I can run programs through a computer and turn the music down on everything I watch..
7:24 "Give me enough dynamite and I'll build a road to hell"
John Holley is absolutely right in his enthusiasm for this documentary. Outstanding combination of entertainment and education. Marvellous range of old photographs. As a Brit I was a bit lost with some of the location maps. Tasmanian mining railways deserve similar treatment if the same sort of historians and commentators could be found.
Great video, very interesting.
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I think there is only one steam engine left, and it's being restored. If you go on White pass, the locomotive will be a Diesel Electric engine designed to run on 3' narrow scale track. It's a pretty smooth ride actually.
I love trains.
history of two brother nations connected in so many ways that both would be less with out the other
Looks the White Pass when fully completed went all the way to Whitehorse, Yukon. I took the Railway from Carcross, Yukon back to Skagway Alaska. Bennet B.C. was on the trip, the only original structure that remains is an old church (was getting a new roof). And a rail station, not original building to site.
The guy at 10:00 is an expert in more than one type of snow 😂😂😂😂
Oh for God sake, just take the locomotives that still exist and store them in a safe place. Not necessarily restore them (for now). When are we going to learn that leaving them to rot away is not preserving.
It’s a train not the fuckin Magna Carta .... 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🙄🙄🤡
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Dude, you made my night. Lol!
Didn't you know that the geniuses running these countries don't do anything unless they make a billion dollars. Hey lets bury toxic waste its cheaper and then we'll tax the people because the toxic planet is their fault
@@rustycowell7264 ... the same guys tell you now the climafraud ... stupid Idyot!
Many don't look that rotten considering they are up to 130 years old! They used enormously high qualities of steel for those things. That was necessary be cause these things had to be able to build up (and withstand) enormous amounts of (steam) pressure, as well as of course other forces.
in the lower 48, the interstates & airports were subsidied by the government but the passenger service was ended - replaced by Amtrak. If the railroads were also subsidied, we'd have great railroads today.
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The native Alaskans who inhabit southeast Alaska are the Tlingit (pronounced Klink-it) and Haida (pronounced Hi-duh) tribes....they kinda hate each other due to the Tlingit's enslaving the Haida's many, many years ago, they literally used to own Haida tribesmen and women...you can really see that play out in Hoonah and Juneau, the animosity is thick...
This is false. Only white men had slaves
I love the railroad and as a child I here in Rhode Island was always down on the main line screwing around and exploring the spurs ,buildings ,whatever and you guys and the like of you are people I admire and respect.You are a link that we all have in are blood and also something in are heads that we just cannot figure out why we have this memory we can't explain,but its there and we love it and thank you guys for what you do and have a good life.MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA
Thank you for the "Klondike" ice cream! I really wish I had one to enjoy while watching this history of the Klondike! What would you do with a klondike bar.. ahh that earworm song television commercial is still in my head..
I LOVE TRAINS❤️
The first container from ship to train and from train to train AS i know . Was at Urskog Hølands banen in Norway . Some km north east from Oslo. A line going from Sørumsand to skullerud .. A norrow line. Called tertitten . Now Its a museum line going some few kilometer from Sørumsand .And that container transport started around 1920.
A Narrow Gauge train at that time seem to have a low center of gravity and wouldn't you have to do more track maintenance this is a really nice video it made me think that Narrow Gauge was basically used for moving equipment materials instead of people okay now now gauge tracks makes sense to me
Amazing
A great video.... thanks for sharing
At the age of 73, my heart says no more lawn mowing and snow shoveling.
Here in the midwest of USA, we don't see such government financing. The interstate highways are subsidized by the feds. The feds also subsidize the airports. Our railroads are now reducted to freight - we even have the CN hauling freight...we are left with Amtrak..
good videos
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Pounding spikes I had my fair share of doing that. day in and day out’ the only difference was is that we had to Drill off a nine round and load & Blast it to buy the end of the day) we’d put in a twenty foot section ever day) five thousand feet underground. And believe me it was hotter the hell down there. and ya got pretty good at driving spikes’ and laying ties you’d Only have enough time for a twenty minute lunch brake. If you took anymore time then that you wouldn’t make your Cycle for the day. If you didn’t make the cycle you were fired no questions asked’ true story my friends. You all have a great job
I see I made a couple of Mistakes there and it bugs me 😆 it was supposed to be) we had to drill off a 9 x 9 round and load and blast) jeez 🧐🤓