Boy does this video take me back. As a small child I would spend hours watching the huge steamers shunting coal cars by our house in the Drumheller Valley by the all but extinct Rosedale mine where my father worked. Thanks for posting this video.
ronthecyborg i love it. I replayed one of the clips several times. Clearly the railroad staff loved trains as much as the fans they were acknowledging in passing.
Watching these old videos it's easy to think that we're still in that era you know I can still walk into an old Mill on a river that's been locked up and if I can get inside and get down in an old forgotten basement or something and see the old crates and the old pencil writing on the wall anywhere like that it's almost as if I'm still there and can sense the entire era
I miss my younger years with Santa Fe Railway being aroung the old Baldwin Steamers as a Fireman and Throttle Jerker. These are Canadian Built Steamers, I love them no matter who built them, great memories.
I was born in 56 this film was Taken 2 years later in 1958 I probably seen some steam locomotives as a child very very young but don't really remember but I remember the old Caboose cuz me and my brothers and sisters would always go there's the Caboose going down the rail
@@Benry2 I know two of these engines survive in Pennsylvania. 972 and 1098 were once part of Rail Tours, which ran on what is now Lehigh Gorge Scenic, but afterward they went different ways. 972 was donated to the Strasburg Railroad and is an official member of the roster. There are plans to bring it into operation, but an immense customer backlog, plus their other personal project with 0-6-0 #31, have repeatedly backburnered the project, leaving 972 heavily dismantled and unrecognizable. Only its tender, lettered 'Cumberland Valley', from its Rail Tours days, gives the engine any visual cues. 1098 is now part of the Reading and Northern, painted blue and numbered as 225 on display at the station in North Reading. Other than missing main rods, 1098(225) looks nearly complete.
My mom had one picture of my grandfather driving a steam locomotive like in Altoona Wisconsin back probably before the depression because after the Depression he jumped the box cars with his brother and son and went to Oregon in the middle of winter where my uncle almost froze to death they got work in the timber the rest of the family eventually came out and that's why I was born in Portland in 1956 I wish I knew what happened to that picture of my grandfather driving that steam locomotive he was the engineer and yes he had on an engineer's hat I still wear them and I've worn many of them out as a barn painter in Wisconsin course I wore them on my Triumph Motorcycles and everywhere else
At one time in England, people were ridiculed for liking steam locomotives. It was considered to be a sign of puerility, especially by this teacher, Mrs. P Smith, at Brampton Junior School in Cambridgeshire who once wrote on my report that 'Trains must not be his only goal in life' I 1960.
Thanks for the upload, its nice to see video's of the real locomotives. I have the HO scale version of the hudson @4:58.
Boy does this video take me back. As a small child I would spend hours watching the huge steamers shunting coal cars by our house in the Drumheller Valley by the all but extinct Rosedale mine where my father worked. Thanks for posting this video.
CNR and CPR certainly had friendly crews. 95% of the shots have the engineer or fireman acknowledging the camera and giving a friendly wave or nod!
ronthecyborg i love it. I replayed one of the clips several times. Clearly the railroad staff loved trains as much as the fans they were acknowledging in passing.
Wow !!and a good view of those engineers operating and driving those locomotives and the firemen
Watching these old videos it's easy to think that we're still in that era you know I can still walk into an old Mill on a river that's been locked up and if I can get inside and get down in an old forgotten basement or something and see the old crates and the old pencil writing on the wall anywhere like that it's almost as if I'm still there and can sense the entire era
One of the round houses are still there in Toronto by the CN tower and one of the steam locomotives sits on display there too
I miss my younger years with Santa Fe Railway being aroung the old Baldwin Steamers as a Fireman and Throttle Jerker. These are Canadian Built Steamers, I love them no matter who built them, great memories.
I was 6 years old in 1958 and I remember steam on CNR tracks back then, but disapeared shortly after.
Looks like a good DVD.
Terrific footage! Quality is exceptional for that time!
Wow! Amazing steam locomotives! I think some of them went on display though.
R.I.P 5700
I was born in 56 this film was Taken 2 years later in 1958 I probably seen some steam locomotives as a child very very young but don't really remember but I remember the old Caboose cuz me and my brothers and sisters would always go there's the Caboose going down the rail
Incredible.
Wow the 5700 actually worked. Now its just sitting!!!🤔😢
The current 5700 is actually 5703. 5700 was scrapped.
5700 is dead
great, wonderful cultural memory, so important
Sad to watch this video and think that 90 percent of those engines no longer exist.
Be glad for the ones that are still around..
Those engineers and firemen would have to be close to 100 years old I was born in 1956 and I'm 66 and these footages were done in 1958
the locomotive at 1:09, the 894, is preserved, sadly though, the 1010 is dead and gone......
+TheBrantfordRailfan True. A lot of engines captured in these tapes are scrapped but a few did survive. (894 being an example)
TheBrantfordRailfan Other ones where?
TheBrantfordRailfan I'm not sure.
@@Benry2 I know two of these engines survive in Pennsylvania.
972 and 1098 were once part of Rail Tours, which ran on what is now Lehigh Gorge Scenic, but afterward they went different ways.
972 was donated to the Strasburg Railroad and is an official member of the roster. There are plans to bring it into operation, but an immense customer backlog, plus their other personal project with 0-6-0 #31, have repeatedly backburnered the project, leaving 972 heavily dismantled and unrecognizable. Only its tender, lettered 'Cumberland Valley', from its Rail Tours days, gives the engine any visual cues.
1098 is now part of the Reading and Northern, painted blue and numbered as 225 on display at the station in North Reading. Other than missing main rods, 1098(225) looks nearly complete.
My mom had one picture of my grandfather driving a steam locomotive like in Altoona Wisconsin back probably before the depression because after the Depression he jumped the box cars with his brother and son and went to Oregon in the middle of winter where my uncle almost froze to death they got work in the timber the rest of the family eventually came out and that's why I was born in Portland in 1956 I wish I knew what happened to that picture of my grandfather driving that steam locomotive he was the engineer and yes he had on an engineer's hat I still wear them and I've worn many of them out as a barn painter in Wisconsin course I wore them on my Triumph Motorcycles and everywhere else
Beautiful
Thank you
At one time in England, people were ridiculed for liking steam locomotives. It was considered to be a sign of puerility, especially by this teacher, Mrs. P Smith, at Brampton Junior School in Cambridgeshire who once wrote on my report that 'Trains must not be his only goal in life' I 1960.
Prys Miroy Mrs. P. Smith sounds like a bitch. Lol
Canadian Steam 🚂
Love those 5700s
Weren't the 6200 4-8-4's similarly designed to the GTW 6300's?
Yes, that's the Canadian way.
Did i see the cn ug2
Does this include railway crossings in Sudbury & Sault Ste Marie on the DVD?
They are brothers!
CN has really gone downhill. So sad 😢
Intro song?
The spelled Komoka wrong on the map.
Excellent catch Rob! Did you mean "they"?