Great video .I grew up standing on that parkade ramp taking photos of Sry and BCH power an authority yellow .CN switcher coming in for the auto racks .Cp Rail going out to the o yard .BN would pull in at the back of the parkade and pull interchange.I would be under the queensboro bridge climbing all over there stuff ,southern railway of BC .They were always happy to share there stories.Always on good behaviour,free run of the place.Goodtimes.I remember when the swing bridge was knocked out by a barge and every one detoured from mission over the CP .Talk about excitement I went to CPRail ,then left the railway after 5 years then left the country for europe.Sure is good memories so built up there now. Dont miss it there at all.But,its nice comeback on youtube after a few whiskys and check it all out.Thanks again
Love the night footage at the end, perhaps one of the best parts about previous decades - you could go outside at night without your retinas being cooked by LEDs
Traintastic. I live one block away from train tracks. Always used to explore the tracks when I was a kid. Trains are now diesel and electric engines. And big container trains have two locomotives. One in front and the back.
Thank you for this. I know these videos don't get the views, but truly, this is the best of UA-cam. What an experience. I would have loved to ride along for the day, a lot of context is lost in an hour long video.
When it was originally posted I had perhaps 1000 subscribers, and the video didn't have proper meta data for search engines. So over 4 years it had 105 views. I went through, re-edited it (as the original was even longer) did some video post to improve quality as best as can be expected from a 480i analog recording. I deinterlaced it, and scaled to 1280x720p @ 60 frames which should help. Brought the very loud audio into check, and added voice overs ect. Already paying off as in the 6 hours it has been posted so far it already has 5x as many views as the original one. With 50,000 subscribers and counting now I am sure it will do ok. There are many train buffs out there, and not too many people get to ride up in a locomotive. The engineer was hoping that he would be running the big SD38AC or SD38-2 with the AC motor, but no when he picked up his orders for the day his dispatcher ave him the old SW900 which has the engine in front of the cab.Still, not many get the opportunity to ride up front, and see the world from the train operators perspectives.
My dad worked in Coal Valley AB during WWII to about 1950 (I think coal was a valuable resourcing during the war). He told us the guarded the railroads during the war to prevent sabotage... especially some of the bridges?. Anyways.. my dad drove small locomotives there to haul coal from the open pit mine. He always had a fascination for locomotives... and I wish he would have had the same opportunity you had to ride a train in the engine. He would have loved it. I watched this entire video and found it very fascinating... trying to find landmarks to get a bearing.. and see how things have changed. Thank you for this video!
Thank You so much for uploading this video. Ive been trying to find pictures of the low road in New Westminster but with no luck...and here it is on video!!!! Wow!!! very cool!!
There you go. I sat in this for about 20 years and found it one day, and knew right away this had to be online. Now I just need thousands of views and I will be laughing all the way to the bank.
down where i live if you cross the tracks when the lights are flashing or the arms are down its illegal and if the cops catch you it can be expensive. a friend of mine got tired of waiting and possibly being late for work, he went around the arms it cost him $250 USD. lol Certain tracks are constantly having trains block the road for hours, and then you have Amtrak which blocks it a few mins. Only one road/street to get around it and that adds a several extra mins and a couple miles. Nice to see a part of the world I'll probably never get to see, thanks for sharing !
It's a big ticket here too "if" you get caught, but here the cops are more looking for people looking at their phones while at a red light and issuing a huge fine and a pile of penalty points.
neat! trains are a thing of the past, thats for sure! i remember putting pennies on the railway tracks when a train was further down the way. take the fllattened pennies and tried to play video games with them at the arcade! im sure someone else around here did that! :) Thanks for posting this!
Thanks. It was shot on a CCDVX3, which was a high end 3CCD Hi8 camera. It was the first of the small, truly broadcast-able quality cameras. Sony sold thousands of them to TV stations to be used for news gathering, as they yielded quality that was almost as good as a betacam, at 1/10th the price of the cheapest betacam. They had a bigger brother to it, the EVW300, which I also owned. That was a 12,000.00 camera and was very close to betacam quality. So close, that when used with a virgin new tape, and the tape played back on a proper hi8 deck the video quality was very close a betacam. Of course the betacam SP was better, but the EVW300 and CCDVX3 was used extensively by small production companies, community access stations, smaller market stations. I bought my EVW300 from CHEK 6 TV in Victoria when they came off lease as they would lease them for 2 years and then get new ones and the old ones were sold for half price. I had a VX3 and EVW300 from about 93 through to about 97, then I traded up to a DCRVX1000 DV camera and a Canon GL-1. Dumped the VX1000 in 2000 and traded up to a JVC GYDV500 in 2000. Dumped the GL1 in 2003 and upgraded to my first HD camera, another Sony. HDR-FX1. Still have the olf DV500, and the FX1 and a cx7 HDR. I tell you I have had too many cameras. All in the strive to obtain the very highest quality possible.
I didn't find the video, I shot the video. It's not like you can just jump on a locomotive and go for a ride. This was done in secrecy on a sunday. The engineer had me shoot this video on his last day of work before he retired. He went on a big vacation when he retired and I guess forgot about the tape and it was never edited for him. Till I found it and edited and published.
12voltvids I know that’s not what I was implying, I’m saying I wish there was a way that you could go online and find video footage of every rail line like this
@@textiles9562 Right but because you can't just ride on a locomotive this is a tall order unless a member of a train crew shoots it and they are generally too busy making sure the train stays on the tracks to shoot a video but I know what you mean.
great video. only comment is, those locomotives are not sw900's. I heard the engineer say 15? and the number board showed 151, which means these are MP 15 loco's, which BC Hydro received in 1975. The sw 900 loco's were all numbered in the 900 series, a hold over from BCER/BC Hydro times.
Love that New West Bridge, built 1904, so 114 years old now. @31:33 Who owned that blue switcher train? @38:50 The 1906 Sumas (BC Electric) Station has been converted into a home. www.flickr.com/photos/spetersongallery/15594882131
3:49 We get a lot of brainlets pulling stunts like this around here too, people would rather risk being killed than wait a few minutes for the train to pass. Some people will even get out of their cars and lift the barriers.
This was cool, maybe a bit drawn out but all the crazy drivers from the trains perspective is priceless. So when they switch tracks, is it the same engineer in your train? I did not see it stop and start back up.
Same crew. There was engineer operates the train. Conductor throws the switches and the fireman riding in the caboose throws it back after the train has passed. The tape was about 2 hours so much was cut. I tried to use the daylight shots most. We left around noon and got back about 8. I remember we all sat back in the caboose in chilliwack and had dinner. Cn and CP had already eliminated the caboose. Replaced it with a robot they called F.R.E.D. "fu##ing ridicules electronic device" is what they called it. Has detectors to detect if any fires have been caused and monitors brake air pressure. This was to eliminate the fireman's job. His job basically Is to watch from the back and see if there are any hot wheels from a bad bearing or stuck brake causing sparks that could start a brush fire and if one does happen to radio ahead to get the train stopped so he can put out any fires started. I would like to see "fred" put out a fire. On this train the guy on the back was doing double duty. Technically he was the brake man but his second job was to watch for and put out a fire. They still have the brake man but he rides up front now. That means a long walk back when throwing switches on long trains.
Considering that we left the yard with about 20 cars, it wasn't a long train. The return trip it was longer. Looks to be a cool job, running a train. There is lots going on all the time, and after over 100 years it is still the way to move large loads of cargo.
Sorry for my bad english.Sometines in dinners-talking i uses to say in the conversation: the different between a rich/normal country or not is train (more things of course) You can see USA/Canada, some México, almost all Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, New Zeland, Thai, India (british) and some more countries like Turkey. They have trains to connects all the country From south of México the train is almost empty, like Africa for example (some Marroco, Algeria, South Africa) This country, if have railway, only connect some points of interest (mines for ex) Its very expensive a line. Its even more-more-more expensive connect all the country, but in the long time of the live of a nation the train connections are better, of course Here a map www.openrailwaymap.org/ Edit: 31:10 People are literally crazy
Yes he did, and is still in office. This would have been for the provincial election in 1997, so that would date this video probably the fall of 96 or early 97. I could look at the tape and see the time code on the tape. He is now in federal politics holding a MO seat for Surrey White Rock.
Great video .I grew up standing on that parkade ramp taking photos of Sry and BCH power an authority yellow .CN switcher coming in for the auto racks .Cp Rail going out to the o yard .BN would pull in at the back of the parkade and pull interchange.I would be under the queensboro bridge climbing all over there stuff ,southern railway of BC .They were always happy to share there stories.Always on good behaviour,free run of the place.Goodtimes.I remember when the swing bridge was knocked out by a barge and every one detoured from mission over the CP .Talk about excitement I went to CPRail ,then left the railway after 5 years then left the country for europe.Sure is good memories so built up there now. Dont miss it there at all.But,its nice comeback on youtube after a few whiskys and check it all out.Thanks again
Love the night footage at the end, perhaps one of the best parts about previous decades - you could go outside at night without your retinas being cooked by LEDs
Traintastic. I live one block away from train tracks. Always used to explore the tracks when I was a kid. Trains are now diesel and electric engines. And big container trains have two locomotives. One in front and the back.
Thank you for this. I know these videos don't get the views, but truly, this is the best of UA-cam. What an experience. I would have loved to ride along for the day, a lot of context is lost in an hour long video.
When it was originally posted I had perhaps 1000 subscribers, and the video didn't have proper meta data for search engines. So over 4 years it had 105 views. I went through, re-edited it (as the original was even longer) did some video post to improve quality as best as can be expected from a 480i analog recording. I deinterlaced it, and scaled to 1280x720p @ 60 frames which should help. Brought the very loud audio into check, and added voice overs ect. Already paying off as in the 6 hours it has been posted so far it already has 5x as many views as the original one. With 50,000 subscribers and counting now I am sure it will do ok. There are many train buffs out there, and not too many people get to ride up in a locomotive. The engineer was hoping that he would be running the big SD38AC or SD38-2 with the AC motor, but no when he picked up his orders for the day his dispatcher ave him the old SW900 which has the engine in front of the cab.Still, not many get the opportunity to ride up front, and see the world from the train operators perspectives.
This is my childhood dream
My dad worked in Coal Valley AB during WWII to about 1950 (I think coal was a valuable resourcing during the war). He told us the guarded the railroads during the war to prevent sabotage... especially some of the bridges?.
Anyways.. my dad drove small locomotives there to haul coal from the open pit mine. He always had a fascination for locomotives... and I wish he would have had the same opportunity you had to ride a train in the engine. He would have loved it. I watched this entire video and found it very fascinating... trying to find landmarks to get a bearing.. and see how things have changed. Thank you for this video!
Everything about this is great. Thanks for making this video, I will definitely watch it again many times.
Thanks. I originally made this for the engineer as it was his last day on the job. That was probably 30 years ago now.
Thank You so much for uploading this video. Ive been trying to find pictures of the low road in New Westminster but with no luck...and here it is on video!!!! Wow!!! very cool!!
There you go. I sat in this for about 20 years and found it one day, and knew right away this had to be online. Now I just need thousands of views and I will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Great video! I love the Leslie S3L action provided in this video.
down where i live if you cross the tracks when the lights are flashing or the arms are down its illegal and if the cops catch you it can be expensive. a friend of mine got tired of waiting and possibly being late for work, he went around the arms it cost him $250 USD. lol Certain tracks are constantly having trains block the road for hours, and then you have Amtrak which blocks it a few mins. Only one road/street to get around it and that adds a several extra mins and a couple miles. Nice to see a part of the world I'll probably never get to see, thanks for sharing !
It's a big ticket here too "if" you get caught, but here the cops are more looking for people looking at their phones while at a red light and issuing a huge fine and a pile of penalty points.
27:05 this train signal right here took it down.
neat! trains are a thing of the past, thats for sure! i remember putting pennies on the railway tracks when a train was further down the way. take the fllattened pennies and tried to play video games with them at the arcade! im sure someone else around here did that! :) Thanks for posting this!
II II how are trains a thing of the past?
Wow that's an old beast. Wish I got to ride those rails
It was fun. the old girl was rockin and rollin down the rails.
Very good quality for as old as this is. Really enjoyed the video!
Thanks. It was shot on a CCDVX3, which was a high end 3CCD Hi8 camera. It was the first of the small, truly broadcast-able quality cameras. Sony sold thousands of them to TV stations to be used for news gathering, as they yielded quality that was almost as good as a betacam, at 1/10th the price of the cheapest betacam. They had a bigger brother to it, the EVW300, which I also owned. That was a 12,000.00 camera and was very close to betacam quality. So close, that when used with a virgin new tape, and the tape played back on a proper hi8 deck the video quality was very close a betacam. Of course the betacam SP was better, but the EVW300 and CCDVX3 was used extensively by small production companies, community access stations, smaller market stations. I bought my EVW300 from CHEK 6 TV in Victoria when they came off lease as they would lease them for 2 years and then get new ones and the old ones were sold for half price. I had a VX3 and EVW300 from about 93 through to about 97, then I traded up to a DCRVX1000 DV camera and a Canon GL-1. Dumped the VX1000 in 2000 and traded up to a JVC GYDV500 in 2000. Dumped the GL1 in 2003 and upgraded to my first HD camera, another Sony. HDR-FX1. Still have the olf DV500, and the FX1 and a cx7 HDR. I tell you I have had too many cameras. All in the strive to obtain the very highest quality possible.
Wow, what list of great cameras!
I wish you could find videos like this for every railway
I didn't find the video, I shot the video. It's not like you can just jump on a locomotive and go for a ride. This was done in secrecy on a sunday. The engineer had me shoot this video on his last day of work before he retired. He went on a big vacation when he retired and I guess forgot about the tape and it was never edited for him. Till I found it and edited and published.
12voltvids I know that’s not what I was implying, I’m saying I wish there was a way that you could go online and find video footage of every rail line like this
@@textiles9562
Right but because you can't just ride on a locomotive this is a tall order unless a member of a train crew shoots it and they are generally too busy making sure the train stays on the tracks to shoot a video but I know what you mean.
12voltvids I know I know.. just a wish :/ would be cool
great video. only comment is, those locomotives are not sw900's. I heard the engineer say 15? and the number board showed 151, which means these are MP 15 loco's, which BC Hydro received in 1975. The sw 900 loco's were all numbered in the 900 series, a hold over from BCER/BC Hydro times.
This is an EMD MP15DC.
I remember when Sw900RS 907 hit a semi at south sumas rd in Sardis. It was put on a siding right behind my house.
Excellent video.
If rail fans see this, you will get burried in views
I got a few SRY vids
@@ShawnyNorburn, post them if you can :-)
this is amazing!
Nice train ride.
cool to see this , that's an old locomotive
Those old GM engines just keep on running. It is probably still in operation today!
28:17 these tracks over there is now used for the Fraser valley heritage railway
It's a MP15DC 151. RS3L horn
very cool
i enjoyed it thanks.
Love that New West Bridge, built 1904, so 114 years old now.
@31:33 Who owned that blue switcher train?
@38:50 The 1906 Sumas (BC Electric) Station has been converted into a home.
www.flickr.com/photos/spetersongallery/15594882131
Probably the same rail company I am riding with. They own the tracks, and run all the trains on it.
3:49 We get a lot of brainlets pulling stunts like this around here too, people would rather risk being killed than wait a few minutes for the train to pass. Some people will even get out of their cars and lift the barriers.
Posted this on a couple of FB sites! 7 3
This was cool, maybe a bit drawn out but all the crazy drivers from the trains perspective is priceless. So when they switch tracks, is it the same engineer in your train? I did not see it stop and start back up.
Same crew. There was engineer operates the train. Conductor throws the switches and the fireman riding in the caboose throws it back after the train has passed. The tape was about 2 hours so much was cut. I tried to use the daylight shots most. We left around noon and got back about 8. I remember we all sat back in the caboose in chilliwack and had dinner. Cn and CP had already eliminated the caboose. Replaced it with a robot they called F.R.E.D. "fu##ing ridicules electronic device" is what they called it. Has detectors to detect if any fires have been caused and monitors brake air pressure. This was to eliminate the fireman's job. His job basically Is to watch from the back and see if there are any hot wheels from a bad bearing or stuck brake causing sparks that could start a brush fire and if one does happen to radio ahead to get the train stopped so he can put out any fires started. I would like to see "fred" put out a fire. On this train the guy on the back was doing double duty. Technically he was the brake man but his second job was to watch for and put out a fire. They still have the brake man but he rides up front now. That means a long walk back when throwing switches on long trains.
Yes a lot of idiots out there. I always stop. We make a game out of it, counting all the cars. Wave at them. My grand kids love it.
Considering that we left the yard with about 20 cars, it wasn't a long train. The return trip it was longer. Looks to be a cool job, running a train. There is lots going on all the time, and after over 100 years it is still the way to move large loads of cargo.
Sorry for my bad english.Sometines in dinners-talking i uses to say in the conversation: the different between a rich/normal country or not is train (more things of course) You can see USA/Canada, some México, almost all Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, New Zeland, Thai, India (british) and some more countries like Turkey. They have trains to connects all the country From south of México the train is almost empty, like Africa for example (some Marroco, Algeria, South Africa) This country, if have railway, only connect some points of interest (mines for ex)
Its very expensive a line. Its even more-more-more expensive connect all the country, but in the long time of the live of a nation the train connections are better, of course
Here a map www.openrailwaymap.org/
Edit: 31:10 People are literally crazy
That's a CP, not CN crossing.
So I have to wonder if Hogg got elected. He sure did advertise...
I believe this will answer that question.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Hogg
Yes he did, and is still in office. This would have been for the provincial election in 1997, so that would date this video probably the fall of 96 or early 97. I could look at the tape and see the time code on the tape. He is now in federal politics holding a MO seat for Surrey White Rock.
Ohhh mal was anderes cool
very cool