Canada's Kicking Horse Pass Part 1 (The West Side) 

sd40-2's are the best sounding trains I've ever heard. I once watched a train go east up the Kicking Horse with 4 up front and 2 behind. The entire canyon was vibrating with beating of the engine harmonics. I'll never forget it.

Canadian Rockies - Best place in the world to watch freight trains in my opinion.

There's a campsite at Kicking Horse pass, which i stayed at, back in the 1980's. Spent all day watching trains go by.

I gotta say you are one fortunate man to be in those areas. Beautiful.

As a former Eco Tourism operator in Banff I can tell you this was a first class video and information. It was like being right there without breathing in the diesel exhaust...lol

Excellent video !!! Regards from Serbia !

Been trackside for over 60 years and in mid-60s, 70s and early 80s, explored the area extensively, shooting mostly 35mm slides. You captured the rail extremely well; It was a video worth watching, by a guy who usually fast forwards most of them, as they are nothing but runpasts. Interesting commentsry as well!

Magnificent scenery, I watched a French tv documentary roughly 25 years ago, about the Trans Canadian freight and passenger trains. Those images captivated me for many years. I appreciate all the recent Canadian Rocky mountains trains routes, vegetations and rivers. Social networks made it much more easier to download. Thanks for your efforts, risks to those remote parts of Canada and wonderful comments. Nigerian, who also read North American geography in my high school syllabus. Now, watching from Switzerland.

What a gorgeous production.

Great video . Have a great day.

Happy I bumped into this channel. Thanks. Love my trains.

A huge amount of effort and expense to get those trains over the Big Hill, the biggest between Vancouver and Montreal. But did you ever stop to consider that somebody had to get the highway over that same hill, so you could admire the trains circling around the Spiral Tunnels? That was my uncle Ken, who was in charge of building the Trans Canada through the mountain parks. Actually it was just as difficult as getting the railway up the hill. He could accept steeper grades, but the highway was much wider, and this brought its own set of problems, not least of which was cost. In the summers of 1945 to 1948 they had survey crews on the hill trying to figure out a feasible route, but with no success. But they had run out of time, and had to start building. He was in the uncomfortable situation of being in charge of building two very expensive roads to nowhere! One evening he drove out along the dirt road on the flats by Field to have another look at the problem. Whether it was stress, or over work, he started to nod off, slumping down behind the wheel. As he woke up, he was seeing the hill from an unusual vantage point, what a child would see, not an adult. And he saw a flash of white at the top, which he knew was a lookout. There was the route! He grabbed a range pole from the trunk and sent in a survey crew the next day. That is where the road runs today.

5:15 - i guess, an old cab is still more user-friendly and down-to-earth (in terms of visibility and accessibility), for them to put it first. 14:22 - The Rocky Mountaineer is a work of art on steel wheels. 15:39 - Wow, CP weren't kidding about "going enviroinmentally-friendly", hiring a track inspector from the locals. He said the other day, that he saves barely enough of fish, after paying off the wolves at the end of a month, to feed the family of five, but i suspect the ol' papa was spending quite alot on the honeyjars, between the shifts. Well-weighted narration, full of details, and little touches on the way about the weather, the setting, or other mishaps - the class of television i love to see today. (and then.. the poor man blues starts, before we get to the 90min video offer. I'm sure they worth every penny, if i could spend one.)

Great video. Thanks. Was lucky enough to visit the area and was great. Found it a bit hard to see trains unlike the a Fraser and Thompson river canyons but still very enjoyable. Your informative narration and video allows me to see some of the stuff I couldn’t. Thanks again. Richard, Melbourne Australia.

Great video,nice looking scenery,thanks.

Amazing as always ❤ Being a rail nut who is also a Brit that lives in Canada I love all 7 Idea videos. The best train videos available anywhere

This video has to be one of the best. Loved seeing an SD-402 along with the CP red locomotives. We get to see some here in Pennsylvania when the oil fields tankers come thru. Unreal scenery. I would guess that except for the train crew changeover spot,you could be sittin quite awhile to see trains. Prolly freeze your cookies off too in spring and fall. Cant imagine the scenery on fall when the trees turn.

I love trains. OMG.

Beeautifull video many thanks !!!

On February 4, 2019, three CPR crewmen- a locomotive engineer, a conductor, and a conductor trainee- operating freight train 301-349 being operated by a relief crew died. Their train derailed on Field Hill near Field, British Columbia, on a 13.5-mile section of track with a steep descending grade (average 2.2%) and several sharp curves. Proving that portion of the main line to be one of the most dangerous stretches of railway on the main line.

Love this. Very interesting. Great commentary. We used to live in Golden. This brings back so many great memories.❤😊

Great Camera Work. Excellent Scenery …Amazing Work.

Beautiful video!

great video! I've been fortunate to visit the area and watch a few trains so it's nice to revisit it.

This was awesome!

Great video .

Fantastic. Loved it!

Love your work great job with covering this!

Very interesting and informative video!

I took the train from Calgary, to Vancouver in 1976. I think the trains today travel a different track than back then. I can remember quite well going through the spiral tunnel. Unfortunately, this run was at night, and you really couldn't see much. Would love to do it again some time.

7idea Productions always displays great videos. If there were fewer commercial interruptions, the videos would come across much better. 7idea has about the most commercials of any channel I know of.

I will be nice to see all this in winter with the snow. 😉

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Nice!

Great video I'm sure I'm not the only one that used the viewing decks at the spiral tunnels in the early eighties

Dios! , qué preciosidad de lugar ,es un paraíso, gracias y el vídeo está muy lindo también ,gracias.

Point of interest. On the weat side of the river at Field is the Trans-Canada Highway and Mt Field. It is shown at 0:40, 3:31 and 4:47 of this video. On the far side of Mt Field from this view is the Burgess Shale deposit. This is a small piece of Cambrian age marine sediment (ca 550 million years old) and holds the world's oldest Invertebrate fossils. It is a World Heritage Site.

The bear must marvel at this long red train with the terrible bad breath.

Nice to see a sd40 on the railway

from an engineering point of view it would be interesting to know how the stresses work on the rails as they do a curve. I watched track laying on a straight section before but often wondered about trains pulling these long sections of track doing curves

The westbound unit coal trains come in just a smokin

Ribbon rail has to bend going through curves. That must put extra force on wheel flanges and increase drag.

At Field there is only one main line. There is no "North Track".

It would be awesome if me and my labrador could go on a “the greatest train adventure”

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I want the dvd !

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Kicking Horse Pass rolls right by Turtle Mountain. Turtle Mountain was the site of the worst natural disaster in Canadian history when half the mountain gave way in 1903. So massive was the landslide that it slammed through two small mining towns and buried them under 300 meters of rock. The CP Rail Kicking Horse Pass line runs literally over that 300 meter thick deposit for almost 6 Km. As for the Rocky Mountaineer train. It's a boutique ultra luxury cruise ship on rails and costs more for it's 3 day trip then a week on a Celebrity Cruise ship with deluxe balcony cabin. The Mountaineer is right up their with the Hungary to Turkey Orient Express first class and Japans West Railay Co's Twilight Express Minzukaze. Expect to pay about $4500 to $5000 for a summer itinerary trip from Calgary to Vancouver.

On the first view of the ribbon train did you use multiple cameras?

How the heck can they breathe in that tunnel…?

You need a drone

To a European viewer, the idea of a 10,000 ft train as shown in this video sounds just unreal.

Who would have thought to put a door at the front of the engine….someone who has never been in a collision no doubt.

That smoke helps keep the mosquitoes away....

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