Kootenay Valley Railway (Canadian Pacific) Cabride - Trail to Nelson, BC on an SD40-2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2013
- With power consisting of no less than 4 SD40-2s and a GP38-2, the KVR's Hotshot is shown making its way from Tadanac yard in Trail to the crew change point of Nelson. This trip of 47 miles goes through some of the most beautiful scenery in Canada.
The KVR is a separate business unit of CP, consisting of the former Nelson, Boundary and Rossland subdivisions between McConnel (near Cranbrook) and Trail in the southern interior of BC. Only one mainline train, the Hotshot, operates over it.
On this day, the Hotshot is nearly double its usual length - The previous day's hotshot had a locomotive die and couldn't continue, so this day had the 2 remaining locomotives from the previous hotshot to make 5, and did much more work than usual.
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That route from Nelson to South Slocan could make for an amazing tourist railroad!
Diese Strecke aus dem Führerstand miterleben zu dürfen ist ein reiner Genuss. Fast unberührte Landschaften, blauer Himmel und einsame Wälder, das ist Entspannung pur! Ich bedanke mich für die Aufnahme und das Hochladen!
This is wonderful. Got it going in the background while I work; even just the sounds are great, and the occasional glance "out the window" is even more refreshing. It's like I'm there. Thanks for sharing.
Hands down , the best ride-along train video. If a guy was into Model Railroading, he could get a lot of scenery ideas from this.
Thank you for the ride. Awesome trip. I understand the speed restrictions and such. I wanted to work the rail when I was a kid and as I got older was told back in the late 70's that you needed to know someone to get in. So I started trucking at age 18 back in 1976. I have always loved and wondered what it would be like, and thanks to your video and riding what I call the Best Loco in the world the SD40-2, my heart just pounded. Absolutely amazing ride. Thanks a million.
Can you just imagine this area before humans or even during the time of native tribes and no industrialization? Wow!
must have been a beautiful sight to see
even before the automobile...
Traveling on foot or horses.
@@u2bear377yeah, the car definitely changed the world and the environment a lot. In a negative way too
Just like in Canadian Railroad Trilogy... "For there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun; long before the white men, and long before the wheel; when the green dark forest was too silent to be real".
Gordon Lightfoot (rest in peace) really did sum it up perfectly.
Thanks for posting this. Its a shame the rest of the "southern mainline" was abandoned. Even this stretch is on the endangered list and could be gone at any time. If any two of the remaining 4 big shippers drop rail service, CP will likely discontinue the lines west of the junction at Curzon....
Many might find it a surprise, but much of this route (Trail to Castlegar) was constructed as the Columbia and Western Railway as a 3 foot gauge narrow gauge line under the control of an American, Augustus F. Heinze, of Butte Montana. The C & W originally ran from Rossland west to the Boundary District. Heinze sold it and the Trail "Cominco" smelter (at "Tadanac", which is "Canada" spelled backwards with a "T" on the front for "Trail", BTW) to CP in 1898. It was converted to standard gauge in 1899. The line to Rossland was abandoned in the late 60's, and as the video states, the Boundary sub from just west of Castlegar to Midway B.C. was abandoned in 1991.
This area at one time was served by 5 competing railroad companies, 3 of which were American, including the Great Northern (now part of the giant BNSF system). Almost all the lines have been abandoned, and the rails and ties pulled up and scrapped. Now only CP remains somewhat active, and will probably be gone in less than 10 years. The only other rails still there belong to a US and a short section of Canadian owned short-lines coming up from Kettle Falls in Washington state, which generally only operates up to a gravel pit on the east bank of the Columbia River at a point just southeast of trail. The rails, which once ran all the way to Nelson until the late 70's, still continue beyond up to Fruitvale, for now, but trains rarely go past the gravel pit.
3h 16m in and 8% battery 🤔 going to be a race to see who finished first 🤔😄 smashing video 👍 thoroughly enjoyed the ride along 🤠
Almost five years old, this is still one of the best cabride videos on TH-cam. Beautiful.
seen better on CN Railway.
9 years now 💀💀
Ten years .....now Feb 2024
Yawn
I woke up to this and outside of the trainhorn scaring me away at first, something about the clacking of the wheels made me go back to sleep easily. Waking up to nice scenery made me feel relaxed.
Man train videos are awesome!
I've watched this video multiple times. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Gorgeous and beautiful nature and landscapes. It was always my dream to work and live in Canada. THE most beautiful country.
Speed slow but nice railway system amid nature. Quite & peaceful journey.
Absolutely beautiful. Can feel so free out there hiking around.
Grazie! ...in questi tristi giorni chiusi in casa fa bene guardare un video come questo!
🚂 nice ride along this rail line scenery nice.🚉 feel like I'm sitting in front of the locomotive watching everything coming into view. Thanks for the ride😎
Very relaxing video. Canada is a very beautiful country.
what a eye-catching nature. It seems like i'm watching view as myself present there where i will not be able to go ever in life. thank you very much for this cab ride upload.
Once in a while I'll play this video during a Model Railroad session.
Beautiful rivers and mountains! Love the informative captions along the way.
Hypnotic watching the trees and scenery roll by. Enjoyed the bear at 3:27:40!
Please make another!
Excellent video! After departing the Maine Central Railroad in 1998 with a back injury, This one brought back some good memories of good work, and great coworkers! I never worked on the train crews, but had experience in 1) - Maintenance of Way, 2) - Clerical, and 3) - Signal departments. It is much to long a story as to how I could work in all of the three departments, so I will not waste your time with that here!
This is a fact that due U Tube we are seeing the places which is easily not accessible.In 1979_80 I got training in Canada with Canadian Pacific Railways and travelled from Montreal to Vancouver by train,now u tube is recalling my past.Engr.Nabi Bakhsh Pakistan
Superbe vidéo on en a hélas pas des comme ça en France !!! Moi qui adore les trains je serais servi là-bas ! Respect !!!!
Thanks to everyone who made this wonderful trip possible! Brazil, Léo.
Watching this on my tv via Roku. Nice video from the engineer and conductor's POV, lovely scenery, and no eye strain from watching it on a tablet or computer.
One of the single best Railroading Videos found on You-Tube in my humble opinion. Added to all time favorite list.
Thank you was up in BC in 1975, the greatest vacation i ever had. Thank you, Maple Leaf Forever!
Fell asleep with YT still playing and autoplay ends up here, so a train horn wakes me up at 3:30am. fml
That's really funny omg
same exact thing happened to me
Mikael Gaiason if you live in Nelson, BC this happens without TH-cam 😆...
Hahaha, this made my morning 😂 thanks for the laugh!
THAT WAS ME LAST NIGHT LOOOOOL
This is why I absolutely love this country! Thanks for sharing this!
Saw this video several years before. Still enjoying it 👍
3/31/20 Thank you for a most excellent ride. Very relaxing
That's awesome. I remember taking the VIA from eastcoast to west coast, have to say the night we rolled through the rockies at dusk, with all the valley's and mountains, just amazing.
To all the men that worked SO much to complete this monumental task...and to those who paid with their lives. A moment of silence.................
Very nice scenery thanks for sharing merci pour le partage ! !
watching trains is so much fun
Fantastic video! I would love to see the section east of Nelson, especially past Proctor and along Kootenay Lake to Sirdar.
All things are interesting and the lanscapes are very beautiful. Only one thing is missing, a plain image of the train that is conducted in the rail trip. At least an image of the locomotive can't be missing. Every train lover like me loves images and pictures of trains. As I was a kid I collected pictures of trains of all countries, and my love for trains goes with me forever. Greentins from Brazil.
Thanking you for posting this video . awesome views. peace to one and all . Boston U.S.A.
Liked the inset video clips for an alternate view of the beautiful countryside.
Great trip. Really enjoyed it. I live in what was once a big logging area of Northern California, near the Oregon border. I used to live in Eureka where the Redwoods live. I was watching a YT video about the logging industry in BC. They took something like 2 billion square feet of wood out of BC in 50 years. I was happy to see by this video that there are still big trees left. Still, you can see the scarring of the forests along with all the ground erosion. It's a consequence of cutting down trees.
Thank you so much for the "trip" and reminding me how amazing and beautiful our country is.
Cool I been to Nelson taken the Highway from Terrace BC . Seeing it from this point of view is cool . Thankyou likely for sharing this
I have to say, that for as many times I've viewed this trip.
This as to be the best journey I have ever taken. It never gets old. Thank you so much for your time and hard work.
Without a doubt, the best train video to date! Well done guys. It will never cease to amaze me how many idiots run level crossings when the signals are flashing! Even the one car that stopped for 5 or so seconds, then decided to run the crossing. Gives a very interesting perspective when viewed from the cab.
I remember when I was 12, walking along the tracks from Nelson to Grohman to go fishing with my cousins. I also remember crossing the bridge across the Kooteney river to the little island in the river on foot with them, my uncle and my dad. The highway didn't cross there then but further down river at Taghum.
passing through trees is very good scene...thanks
Bear on the railway at 3:28:16! Thanks for posting this very picturesque look at a part of British Columbia that is a little off the beaten track. It makes me curious to visit there.
A slow moving and beautifully photographed video with amazing views of the North West. It is well worth the time to see it all and check out that lucky, lucky bear near the end. Thanks for a marvelous trip!!!
Beautiful scenery!!! It's wonderful to be watching that as if a person is right there on the train. Very nice and thank you for making this. 😊
I worked up the hill for a decade and of course coming anywhere near the rail operations was a firing offense so its nice to have a look inside the gates.Thanks
Glad I purchased a CP Rail Airchime K3H when I did. Sounds similar to the CP 5723 on the lead of this train...
Thank you. We certainly need more opportunities for these “trips” !
I traveled from trail to Nelson and back when I was 6 years old, to fish in kootenany lake with my grandfather and his friend .
I FINALLY sat down and finished this entire video after having it on my list of things-to-watch videos for years! Wonderful! Can't wait to visit these beautiful railroad sites someday. I wish all the Canadian subs could make such a great cabride video. Deeply appreciated.
Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I've been trying to make more, but at the time this was made, it was near impossible to get into a cab on the mainline. Now, things have changed, and I haven't been able to get in anywhere so this will probably be my only video. I do recommend visiting the Kootenays - even if you miss the train, they're beautiful and full of interesting places!
The moment where the train hurtles under the grade 2 listed bridge, with such precision and wonder, was a truly special moment in both mine and my invisible friend 'fred' lifes.
Great video, just love to hear the sounds of those SD40s, glad to see that the old girls are still around
It’s so relaxing and very VERY neat...
wonderful to se the area in colour - sadly i only ever visit the area in the black & white of winter.
nice pictures btw on flicker.
the speed of the ant, the turtle crawls faster, I sympathize with you and thank you for the scenery
Thanks for sharing this - my grandparents were early settlers in Nelson (1904) - grandfather worked for the CP (he was killed on the job in 1931), and my grandmother returned with the children to Ontario. Would love to visit this area - maybe this coming summer!
Beautiful countryside and great Video! Thank you so much for sharing this! :-)
Such beautiful scenery
This is a fantastic video .....!! Followed the trip using google maps as well with clear reference points ....Super
That was wonderful, the flange squeals were beautiful
I even have this beautiful video playing in the background as a genuine means of relaxation whilst thumbing through paperwork at home! I also recommend the lengthy Norwegian railway vids (some nearly ten hours) as a background montage. Utterly superb.
Train crews worldwide truly see the best the world has to offer!
Longest train video I've seen yet love it I feel like I'm riding
i would love to take this trip with you some day,,,, I must say,,you must wake in the morning happy to go to work all the time,,, awesome country we live in, and the areas we never get to see always seem to be the best
What a nice piece of scenery
never thought it looked that cool up close.
This is my Homer Simpson bowling alley dream job.
I dream trains a lot, Canada is drop dead gorgeous and I would swim from Australia to sit up front like this !
Getting paid is the bonus as I would do this for free.
Also it wasn't until the man got out to flick switch points until I believed this wasn't a well placed camera on a ho scale model .
Stop the train!!! That's a good spot to fish. Beautiful ride. Thank you very much!!
looks like it is a downhill run, amazing scenery
What a beautiful ride.
I wonder if you know how fortunate you are to live in such a place.
Thanks!
what made this fun for me was to follow along on google earth on a second screen. Since the train was so slow, I jumped ahead lots of times, went to street view and got a flavor of each town.
This is so good.thank you Canada is beautiful. I like to put it on to relax to before bedtime as it helps the insomnia ❤
Most beautifull landscape. The slow progression can be overcome by changing the speed (*) to 2X. I loved it atl the way.
Viewer in Belgium.
With the new, albeit annoying, features on TH-cam using the scroll wheel or scrolling with the touchpad (like I used to to scroll down to the comments) while hovering over the left side of the video, you can now increase the speed to 16x, which has made this video a lot easier to watch! 14 minutes for a 3h 46m video! W00t!
@@timothyjholloway Don't worry. I'm all ok with this. Thenks for your answer 😃
The speed limit for almost all track on this line is usually 20MPH due to tight curvature, although in some places it's been reduced to 15 or 10 for long stretches due to bad track. This area only sees one road train a day, and it's low on the priority list for maintenance, often receiving second or third hand rail.
Interesting!!😊
Thank you for the excellent explanation.
May I inquire as to what the obstruction is at the bottom of the screen as you watch the video? I thought briefly that it was ice but then ruled that out. Broken windshield on the engine? What is it?
Thanks.
@@yourroyalhighness7662 the nose of the cab.
I just watched it all in 2x speed and it was great!
@@TheSupradude26 Thanks for the tip....that was much better!
Don't miss the photos in the link above, beautiful HD camera work ! My best friend lived in Trail for a few years then moved to Lake Louise. I got to see it all over the years, so grateful to have made my home on Vancouver Island as a teenager.Thanks for posting one of the most beautiful places in the world to live, British Columbia, some get to call it home.
Must admit... I went straight to the bear! Fantastic scenery.
I wish I would live the rest of my life in that place it looks so nice
It’s truly beautiful out here man. Nothing like the kootenays!
@@kurtneufeld969 I'm coming for Canada baby lol
Canada is so beautiful. I would love to visit one day and ride a train through areas like this. Thanks for posting.
Try VIA Rail's Canadian, but prepare to pay big money.
Or the 'Rocky Mountaineer' and pay even bigger money!
Loved seeing what’s left of So. Slocan. Never made it to the trackside before.
Thank You this was Most Enjoyable! Cheers from Rick in Ontario, have been in British Columbia a couple of times not southern BC though out to Prince Rupert along the Skeena and then back though Kitwanga Hazelton Smithers Prince George and on down the Ice Fields PKWY on to Calgary on the way back from the Yukon out seeing Canada while still on the Green side : ) My Father was an Engineer on CN for 31 years He saw the change from steam to diesel and the dismantling of all that plant it required, I wanted to become an Engineer but Father said from His Point of view there was no future in the job so a Millwright I became and spent 44 years working in boxes without windows AKA factory! It is to late now it is,
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amazing landscape and very relaxing to watch. Thanks for sharing!😃
PIEKNY CUDOWNY FILM - EXTRA KLASA !!! CUDOWNE WIDOKI - BEAUTIFUL - THANK YOU - POZDRAWIAM SERDECZNIE
I love it, thank you from your neighbor in the south. Very kool...this will be 8th journey with you..
Nice ride Matt, Thank You.
I hooked the lap top up to the big screen TV and took the entire ride with you one rainy afternoon the end of November 2o16. Doing the numbers the average speed was just a tad above 12 MPH.
Thanks again, Glennnnnn
I love these........... on a cold fall day on a Sunday relaxing and falling in and out of sleep while this plays in the background. Nice.
This has got to be the most scenic cab ride I’ve ever seen
Thanks for the ride... You have to have the best job in the world..
Awesome ride !! Thanks so much. It was great to sit here enjoying reminiscing about my old 1966-69 days in BC (Vancouver & Vernon). Awesome spotting that young grizzly near Nelson !! I would strongly recommend that you break the trip up into two parts The stretch from Trail to Castlegar is pretty slow while Castlegar yard to Nelson is way more interesting and people will have time to view it's shorter length. I counted 77 cars !!
I love trains. Thanks for posting.
coolest train engineer evar!!!!
Going to run this on a "big screen" behind my N scale CP/BCR/CN layout just for the incredible BC scenery and sound it offers. Well Done you!
I can't wait to go back to Nelson & Kelowna ! Thanks for this video.
Greetings from Paris
Im from Paris too :) Did you went back to Nelson & Kelowa ahah ?
As a Rail Consultant and Executive in addition to being a lifelong rail fan, this is on of the best videoed trips I have viewed. Thank you Much!
Lol
Great job, thanks for doing this. I have watched it at least 5 times, and still haven't seen half of it!! I keep falling asleep!! That's a good thing!! Would love to see one going theother way, it seems like most of this one was down grade.
The video may give the illusion of going down grade, but actually the trip from Trail to Nelson is all uphill, going up-river alongside the Columbia River from Trail to Castlegar, and up-river alongside the Kootenay River from Castlegar to Nelson. Trail is at elevation 440 meters and Kootenay Lake (at Nelson) is 532 meters.
@13:49, No Boring Moves on this one. Even Though this is routine for you it's great. I've been repairing aircraft since high school and always wanted to work on trains. I definitely will not be changing careers after 40yrs but I will enjoy watching this one.
Beautiful landscapes! Thanks for loading from Switzerland which is not very different