It's the Holiday Season - Chasing the 2016 CP Holiday Train on the Canadian Pacific Mainline
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- 11/27/16 - It's the holiday season again, and Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train took to the rails for its 18th year to light up the night with holiday cheer.
Last year, I went with a few friends to see it in Mechanicville, NY. From there it went to Saratoga Springs, NY, but we were unable to chase it...even though we wanted to.
Intent on chasing it, we decided to strap in for the long haul this year. Special thanks to Liberty Railfan Productions for doing the driving on this chase. This outing was the furthest we've gone for railfanning, coming very close to the Canadian border.
The train's journey started in Fort Edward, NY on Sunday November 27th, and would travel along the Canadian Pacific Mainline up to its final stop in Rouses Point, NY, a few miles from the Canadian border.
Our chase began in Fort Ann, NY, a few miles north of Fort Edward. We chased the train pretty much the entire route, breaking off in Champlain, NY, just south of Rouses Point.
Along the way, we caught a two freight trains and two Amtrak trains, however we got skunked by the Holiday Train for the one Amtrak. Those trains will be uploaded in a separate video. All in all, it was fun getting to see the Holiday Train again for the second year in a row, seeing it in new locations on a line we've never been to before.
That Train is beautiful, it certainly puts the Durango and Silverton Polar Express Train to shame, ( The Polar Express Train runs from mid-November through about the third of January. It's different each year.) The way the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is decorated is marvelous. God Bless You. Merry Christmas to all.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Yes, the way CP does it is very nice. But I'm sure the Durango and Silverton is nice as well. Merry Christmas.
The Nomadic Railfan Unfortunately my Husband and I are unable to ride The Durango and Silverton Polar Express Train because of various health issues, and we have a card from the owner for two free tickets. The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is actually decorated much better than The Durango and Silverton Polar Express Train, and there is not much in the way of entertainment on board. ( We do know "Santa Claus" though.) Have a very Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year. God Bless You.
great awesome catches and video of the CP holiday train
nice horn salutes too
good catch too catching that meet with it with Amtrak Heritage 145 as well
What a amazing video! Great shots, Scott!! It looks great at night with all those lights flashing!
Thanks a lot man! Definitely a fantastic train to film!
Fantastic, greetings from Germany
Thanks for watching!
Hey Scott,
This train was epic, looked even better at night when fully lit! Nice catch on Amtrak 68 too! This is one of my favorite videos! (Like #24). Hope you guys had fun!
-Don
Thanks Don, yes it does look the best when it's dark out. It's really the only train that you can successfully film at night.
Good job buddy, beautiful video!
Must have been fun and cold as well.
Thanks Scott and Library Railfan for driving during the chase sequences.
- Balerio
Thanks a lot Balerio! Yes as the sun went down and we went further north, it did get pretty cold. Very much worth it though!
Must be weird to hear that music cranked up at 2AM passing your house XD, "Oh just another train going by", then that WTF moment "Was that Jingle bells?? o-O
I did get to ride on the KCS Holiday Express this past year though, quite nice.
ElfNet Gaming haha, indeed
Sweet that you rode the KCS one, I've seen videos of it. Looks awesome
Nice catch.. Thumbs up!
Thanks a lot Trains21!
Impressive and great shots
Especially love the night shots
this is awesome. sweet video. awesome catch. very cool.
Thank you!
The Nomadic Railfan your welcome
Wow, that takes dedication! Awesome video :)
Indeed it does! Thanks for watching and commenting!
super great will share with friends/family Merry Christmas to all
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great shots!
Thanks J!
Very awesome catch THUMBS UP
Thanks!
great vid mate. keep up the good work. dont you just love train
Thanks a lot Fred!
+The Nomadic Railfan no problem bro
Amazing looking train! I wish it would come to Florida lol
CP definitely does a great job every year! lol, yeah it's definitely a bit far for you...I was lucky to have a friend willing to drive for this. Sure I do have my license and a car and don't mind driving, but I really give my friend credit for being able to pull this 600+ mile round trip off.
Awesome Job My Man Do you think I may use some of your footage of the CP Holiday Train
Thanks! Uh, what exactly would you use the footage for?
GOOD JOB NOMAD
david mcstine Thanks!
Meh those ugly CP ECO's... :P But a very cool looking train and some awesome shots in this video, 9:28 = EPIC.
Thanks a lot Dan! The spot at 9:28 was probably "the spot" for this trip. That was my absolute favorite.
I saw it in Mechanicville also!!
Well, this year. But nice video!
Thanks! That's cool. I saw it in Mechanicville last year. It was nice, but we weren't able to chase it. Once they were done in Mechanicville, they high-tailed it out of there to Saratoga Springs. Seeing it in multiple spots this year was honestly a lot better than just seeing it Mechanicville last year.
River Line Productions awesome
What camcorder do you use?
I believe this video was filmed with my old camcorder, a Canon Vixia HF R400. My current videos are filmed with with a Sony CX405.
The Nomadic Railfan ok. I have an 800 and yours looked so good, but so far my attempts at night video have sucked hard. I’ll play around with the settings.
It could be something in the settings, yeah. Been awhile since I've used that model so I don't remember exactly what settings are available. But I also sharpen videos in editing.
The Nomadic Railfan oh, how would you do that without losing quality?
TRAIN 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
TRAIN
That is the first time I've seen it in the day, as everybody shoots it at night! I have subbed to your channel, you can sub back if you like! Happy Holidays! Bob...
Thanks for watching and subscribing Bob! Happy Holidays to you as well. Yup, of course the best time to see it is at night, but seeing it in daylight was pretty great too.
I agree it is an awesome sight either way! Thanks for subbing back! Bob...
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i,ll take the so called ugly emd over a GE/ get educated ac. unit/ any day of the week / especially on the holiday trains / those ECO,S will get the job done with no issues.
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