Thank you so much. This takes me back to when I was little. My dad used to take me to trains like these. Of course my mom wouldn't let me play with trains cuz I'm a girl but everytime my dad was home he would let me and even play with me until my brother was born then according to my mother I didn't matter anymore. The horrible things she did and said so my dad couldn't play with me anymore. Almighty give her mercy because I won't.
Hard to believe how human transport was revolutionized in a little over 150 years. Wagons/carriages to rail to jets, all within two centuries. Even just 65 years ago, this is how our grandparents and great grandparents traveled.
@The Flying Farmer That is certainly true, but for a while it was limited and largely more of an upper class thing. Aircraft travel really didn't get huge for the larger population until around the 60s (and particularly the 70s). Until then, the common folk often kept "riding the rails".
I was born at Sunnyside in Toronto back in '42. Lived across the street from Sunnyside and watched the whenever possible. Use to drop marbles down the stack as the crossed under me at the Wilson Ave footbridge. Good times.
My father was a section foreman on the CN Beachburg Sub 1961-1994. I had a lot of rides on the motor car through Algonquin Park. Oh the memories. I can almost smell the creosote.
I am barely old enough to remember the last days of steam service in Canada. This film would have been made around the time my family moved from a rural area to suburban. I recall noticing the diesels (I had no idea what they were at that time) near our new home, compared to steam locomotives where we used to live. I started kindergarten in 1958 and grew up not far from the CN main line on the Oakville subdivision. In 1972, I started working for CN Telecommunications and in the mid 70s often rode freights in Northern Ontario.
CN Railroad had such beautiful trains! A far cry from the railroad it is today!
Thank you so much. This takes me back to when I was little. My dad used to take me to trains like these. Of course my mom wouldn't let me play with trains cuz I'm a girl but everytime my dad was home he would let me and even play with me until my brother was born then according to my mother I didn't matter anymore. The horrible things she did and said so my dad couldn't play with me anymore. Almighty give her mercy because I won't.
Sorry to hear that
@@davefrompa5334 nothin to be sorry about. Just the way it was but thank you for the good part of the memory.
Now you can watch and relive those memories 😊
@@paulwiden4061 exactly why I thought it so cool. Instantly took me back to a very good time in my life.
I get excited when I see those rounded tub style Vanderbilt Tenders being used. -Thanks
This is the Canada my grandparents knew as young adults, so interesting to see as if through their eyes.
Hard to believe how human transport was revolutionized in a little over 150 years. Wagons/carriages to rail to jets, all within two centuries. Even just 65 years ago, this is how our grandparents and great grandparents traveled.
@The Flying Farmer That is certainly true, but for a while it was limited and largely more of an upper class thing. Aircraft travel really didn't get huge for the larger population until around the 60s (and particularly the 70s). Until then, the common folk often kept "riding the rails".
Nice footage of the Oshawa sub I guess it was back then
The shot at 8:05 is a GTW 2-8-0, very cool!
The last part of the video has a really good sound of the steam whistle it brings back memories for my dad who grew up in the steam era
I was born at Sunnyside in Toronto back in '42. Lived across the street from Sunnyside and watched the whenever possible. Use to drop marbles down the stack as the crossed under me at the Wilson Ave footbridge. Good times.
My father was a section foreman on the CN Beachburg Sub 1961-1994. I had a lot of rides on the motor car through Algonquin Park. Oh the memories. I can almost smell the creosote.
My long dead grandfather was an engineer with CN up until about 1960. I suppose its even possible he was in one of these clips.
At 7:15 I was able to identify the road number of the CNR U-2-h class Northern as 6253.
1:02 Early intermodal transport?
Can't tell if they are truck trailers or wagons.
They appear to be piggyback trailers
7:47 is that 6167? Someone pls tell me
I am barely old enough to remember the last days of steam service in Canada. This film would have been made around the time my family moved from a rural area to suburban. I recall noticing the diesels (I had no idea what they were at that time) near our new home, compared to steam locomotives where we used to live. I started kindergarten in 1958 and grew up not far from the CN main line on the Oakville subdivision. In 1972, I started working for CN Telecommunications and in the mid 70s often rode freights in Northern Ontario.
6200s were the best
I’m more of a u-1-a guy, but MAN those u-2-gs are cool. I got to see 6200 recently