CP Canadian 1970's 

That’s my father, Ed Currie, the engineer at the start of the film, then about 8:26 then again at 1146.;He had the run from Calgary to Field, BC before he retired. He would stay overnight in Field the bring the Canadian back the next day.. This is wonderful to see. I never knew this film existed.

Great old film of one of North America's greatest passenger trains. I like the CP orange. It's very direct - sharp looking, with no frills. The FP9 was the zenith of the F units, but American railroads purchased few of them, given the rapid decline of passenger service in the U.S. Chicago and Northwestern had a few, I think. It made 1,750hp (250 more hp than the FP7, or F7s) and had steam generators and heating equipment.

Sad to watch during these Covid 19 days and with the world in chaos, what we had seems gone now. Such great memory's of a strong free beautiful land with down to earth folk.

Ad a Montrealer, I photographed in some of the locations shown in the video. I also traveled during the 50s, 60s and 70s, on The Dominion and The Canadian, Many of the scenes of the video also brought back of what it was like in the days; especially Calgary and the Spirals which I visite countless times over 30 years, I now live in Calgary,

@2:17 is Jackfish Bay, the Slate islands in the distance. @247~305 is Port Arthur (my city). @ 314 is FT William, the loco making a right turn at the end of Syndicate ave and Brock street. @ 409 is the straight stretch beside the highway between Raith and Dog River turnoff. Wow...brings back memories of when i was a kid growing up in Red Rock, seeing that train go by my Dad's shop once/week. I got to ride that train 3x from Winnipeg to Red Rock. Thanks for the video

Seeing FP7s back to back brings back memories of Silver Streak. I've loved those engines all my life and its sad to see them replaced by "lumpier" models. That sleek smooth art deco style was so beautiful!

Great memories. Thank you for uploading. My first trip on the Canadian was June 1977, from Winnipeg to North Bay, Ontario, via Thunder Bay, North Shore of Lake Superior. Amazing scenery. I was seated in the first row of the Skyline dome car, when this car had a short coach section and snack bar at the back. I still take the Via Canadian once in a while and still LOVE this train. I wish the new Via Canadian could still run on the North Shore of Superior (one of the most beautiful parts of the country), but understand that Via has to serve more remote communities on the northern CN line.

I'm not Canadian,I'm American,and my all time favorite railroad and paint scheme is the red n silver Santa Fe. My fav passenger train is the Super Chief which ran from Chicago,where we lived once to LA. But very close behind is CPRail. Hated the old maroon and gray paint scheme but the red and white Pacman locomotives and freight cars were/are boss, man. That Canadian passenger train was gorgeous,wish we could have taken that run to Lake Louise. CPRail just screams Christmas to me. Unfortunately,every president or CEO running American railroads has made the statement that a railroad cannot make money on passenger service. That,plus the fact that via air,you are in BC the same day versus I don't know,how many days via rail? That's at least a solid day maybe two to spend running away from the grizzly bears !!!!! 😊

Im not Canadian but i LOVE canadian roads

When it comes to Christmas gifts, you were right on 'track' by posting/presenting these videos of the Canadian Pacific. Every one is a classic.

Great video! My dear, late grandmother and I took the CP Canadian RT from Toronto to Vancouver. It was my high school graduation gift from her. I cherish the memories of that beautiful trip!

few people knew this back then but they were making history in cp rail passenger service

Some of the Best railroad videos on RU-vid! Merry Christmas 👍

Great film at an often overlooked railroad country. Canadian Pacific and National are two classy railroads that did things right.

I remember our train trips in the Rockies as a kid, a real magical winter wonderland! Also remember the kids meal on the train was a hot dog and chips for a dollar! This really brings back awesome memories! Thanks for the upload! 👍 😎

Incredible video. thank you very much for sharing. Merry Christmas!

Wow! Awesome job brings me back memories of watching the CPR trains at our cottage at Ingolf a small train town on the Ontario-Manitoba border. The cp Keewatin sub runs up a grade here and I loved and still enjoy watching the grain trains and heavy coal trains lugging up the "hill". Back in the 70s I was just a little boy but I remember the F7/9s and the Canadian came through every day both eastbound and westbound. Freight trains had a wide variety of motive power from alco's, early Geep 7s and 9s and lots of SD40s, and SD40-2s. Now it is very quiet and very few trains run through Ingolf. Those that do are mostly hot intermodel trains with as many as 600 sea cans and truck boxes with GE es44ac 's and Ac4400 's in DPU. I still see 224 car grain drags with 4 4400 HP locomotives in DPU lugging up the grade and love every second of it.

Brings back many memories from working at CP Rail and riding on the Canadian from Calgary to Revelstoke. Thanks! Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, fmnut! This is GLORIOUS! Real CPR! Thank you very much!

Thanks for sharing this! Its amazing how much this route has changed. Some places are nearly unrecognizable today. I remember heading to the river's edge to watch the last few years of the Canadian before VIA, winding its' way along the bow river in the eastern Rockies when I was only 11 years old. Seeing old 5931 downtown a few years before it was moved to Heritage Park...The Calgary tower before it was surrounded by taller neighbors. The Winnipeg station's yards and surroundings are only a memory now, most of the old buildings came down in the 80's. The docks at Thunder Bay are mostly derelict and deserted now...

Thank you for sharing this with us! Love the mountains and railway through them.

Excellent video with so much rail action. These type of scenes are priceless. Thank you for recopying this and sharing! Mike

Brilliant! I appreciate your time and effort. Thanks for posting.

Absolutely stunning movie footage, capturing the guts and glory of crossing the main divide! Nice to see some Alcos in the mix!

Thanks for a wonderful Christmas present.

Outstanding video. Brought back many great memories. Thanks.

I remember fishing in Georgian bay, and flying in a bush plane, following Canadian National train through the forests . love Those railroads up there. Something magical about Canada.

Thanks for the great video, it's perfect for Christmas! Many of those loco, passenger and freight schemes are what Canadian modellers strive to do, CDS lettering too. One of my uncles worked in CPR shop in Calgary. He said it was a tough place, but he was a biker then. Another uncle worked his way up to fireman with CPR, but quit when they got diesels. He said, "They looked like work".

0:47 Silver Streak!👍👍 I think I saw Deverau in it!

I have riden these exact rails between Calgary and Vancouver many times in the 70s.. Thanks for posting 🇨🇦 👍

Thank you for doing this, nice work on the remaster, it looks great

Once a RR fan, always a RR fan, my father was a retired Reading RR Engineer👍, 40,yrs on the line

I last rode The Canadian in 1993, after VIA refurbished the rolling stock and went to F40s, negating the need for helpers. The shops did s remarkable job on the cars. It was an exquisite train.

As a kid I would go to my grandparents in Mactier where my grandfather worked the diesel shop and managed the station.He was chief engineer on the CPRs Great Lakes Ships until they shut down in 1966/67 ,then he transferred to the railroad..My job was to go fill the bucket up with the blue tins of water(I thought it tasted like club Soda) and ice.Sometimes drag the water hose out when needed and do a pull by.Thought I was part of of the company because the crews treated me good..For a treat one year went to Toronto on the Canadian to go to the CNE and my grandfather put me up on the lead unit with the crew for the run to Toronto My Aunt picked me up at Union station.Years later became an engineer for CPR myself (It wasn’t what I was planning to do)and recently retired.

A cross country trip to Canada is on my bucket list 🇨🇦

Amazing job, I never knew CP owned any bi-level coaches. You learn something new every day!

Thanks for the many rolls of 4 minutes 8mm (or super 8 if it already existed) with sounds of a long by gone era before 1973 petroleum crisis. Gone F, MLW, cabooses, robot cars, all those steel passengers cars, but the Budd are still running daily ! Surprise to see ditch lights equipped SD 40. They´re gone too. Thanks to these unknown crews, and hope that the lady that found her dad as the engineer in the F unit was a plesant surprise. How many of them are still with us, film maker inclueded ? Fmnut you did a masterpiece in remastering original movie. Proof is that people could have a decent life before our internet, cell and social media age. In those days, somebody talking alone would have ended up in psychiatry !!. What will be our daily life in fifty years ? Does our children will look at that century old movie from March ? Who knows...

Hello Chicago Hello Gotta drink to that Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

Incredible!!!

Great video!!!

Ahh the good ole pandemic free times!

Dorval in the 70's was an awesome place to watch trains . Once a worker from the CP station- that's right, the CP station- on the other side of the tracks invited us in to look at pics .

Wow, I never knew the CP passenger double-deckers existed. I never saw them back-in-the-day. The CP planes (in the video intro) were the coolest paint-scheme of any airline.

Great video of great railroad times. Can pacific had the neatest rail cars when they rebranded with all of the different colors and the pac man

Love the sound of those SD40's under load. Hard to find that now.

i used to ride the Canadian from Calgary to Vancouver regularly. lots of stories. " some i cant repeat here "

Great job. If the original film was silent then the added sound worked very well, ie an EMD prime mover sounded like an EMD, ALCO like an ALCO, Canadian horns, etc. Never saw any of this before. Editing was excellent.

That was in the days when you could talk the engineer into a ride in the cab. In today's lawsuit happy society, no longer possible. Back in the 60's I was able to catch a ride from Chicago until the train brke down in the middle of the desert. Those were the days. Love those EMD's.

When my dad was still alive in 2018 we had really downsized his place and got rid of many useless items but we found a cache of old slides that had people riding the Canadian circa 1972 and many different angles were captured, I'm not sure who was all in the slides my dad had no idea either , but these people were in the "sleeper plus" class or what ever they called it back then, I think the majority of those cars went to via after because the insides have not changed much in 40 years lol

Nice. Everything was greener, and cleaner back then.

The time frame of this video is from 1970 to 1977 judging by the motive models and paint schemes, and the presence of SD40-2s and Trudeau grain hoppers, which came out in 1972 and 1973 respectively.

You are a real Santa with this video of how train travel used to be, from my perspective the first few minutes of trains heading towards Dorval after leaving Windsor Station in Montreal on the way to Toronto or Ottawa , the view of the former Station now gone to make way for the Bell Centre where our Montreal Canadiens team plays hockey. I remember a model train show at Windsor that was a childhood dream. The steam escaping the coaches during winter were always a welcome sign you would be toasty warm inside! As for the ride through the Rockies, I am retiring in 7 years, my gift to myself will be just that.

The nut delivers time after time!

One scene was interesting because the train was pulling away with a couple of Alco RS units leading a F unit booster. The Alcos were making all kinds a chaotic snorts and what not, while the GM was almost singing a song.

I can't help but think of Silver Streak when I see those 70s area CP Rail passenger trains

Would love to see a cab ride view of the route sometime, beautiful scenery

Great video

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Merry Christmas!!!!!

Brilliant quality, very good work. Slight oops at 18:46 ...

Interesting to see the MLW units still working the coal trains before being sent out east for the rest of their careers.

Nice shots! Interesting how the train crews were allowed to smoke while on the job. Definitely scenes from a bygone era.

Great editing of a decade not often portrayed. Congratulations on all that work. Some footage of The Canadian and some freight trains appears to be from 1977 or 1978. Correct? The reason is that both the F units and late model SD40-2's are sporting 8" reflective stripes which started to appear in 1976-1977, and since no VIA painted equipment is shown, it can't be later than that. Some footage might even be later, there being small multimarks on all 4 SD40-2 in the consist near 23:30.

The train in the rhubarb/tagalders I think is either the Nimegos or White River Subs. Is there anyone that can put a mileage or any particulars of the mishap?

Wonderful images, my interest is Canadian Pacific Railway(CPR) in Montreal circa 1950s and 1960s, this isn"t that far removed, the FP's/RSs/GPs & forty foot box cars make for great looking trains, my opinion. The scene's are lingering, which affords the opportuinty to study things. Overall it was a treat to see, you mention this is a sample of Red Moser"s films. Is there more Canadian footage, more CPR, more Montreal?

06:00 beauty shot!!!

The GMD six axle power have to be straight SD40s. They had "porches," more so than an SD45, but not as stretched out (on a longer frame,) as with the SD40-2, introduced in 1972.

I didn't know CP had Bi-Levels, especially Bi-Level Cabcars.

0:44, Silver Streak movie. #AMRoad

Boy those Canadians really know how to run trains! 15 to 20 coaches long. They got those coaches from us Americans way back 'WHEN!"and referbished them, guess there still in use even today! Id love to make the cross country trip someday! on the CP. just for fun! And if it dosent arrive on time, "Who cares!" v i wonder what it costs to go first class? "Got an idea!" work for the railroad and ride the trains free!

It took a lot of lines in a lot of intelligence to build the model of Canadian Pacific Lake Superior a subdivision the intelligence was beyond belief Douglas Ayers

Dating the footage to 1969/70, One Palliser Square in Calgary (5:52) and (17:50) is nearing completion.

Wonderful! I'm hooked on your vintage videos.Merry Christmas to you! Q: Why do bagpipers march while playing? A: They're trying to get away from the noise. ;-)

On those trains with a cab car, how does it work when they first had it on those trains?

Have any of you been lucky enough to be driving or travelling in 4070 or 4067 during their life ?

Hey man, this video is amazing. Mind if I use some of the clips as throwback clips in a travel vlog and credit you appropriately

At 5:35 it´s remeberme to the Movie Silver Streak

Were those pullman or acf bilevels in the beginning? What city was using them?

Questioning the date of June 1970...the Canadian government grain cars seen in the Vancouver skyscraper view did not start to arrive until 1973.

What are the lights on the Canadian loco pointing upwards?

Is 4070 the trailing locomotive at 14:11 ?

Forgot what 2 pacmans back to back looked like

Hey FM, love your stuff. Would it be okay if i use some of your clips for an upcoming video project on the grand railway hotels of Canada. I’ll credit you appropriately on screen for everything. Thank you

Hi fmnut, I couldn't find a way to contact you offline, so I hope you see this! I'm with Rapido Trains, and we're putting together a video for our upcoming N scale FP9. I was hoping to get in touch with you about licensing some of this amazing footage for B-roll shots. Please let me know if you're interested!

The movie Silver Streak! Named after the famed CB&Q train. Filmed on the CP. Unstoppable movie filmed with CP engines. CP likes to use their equipment to make other railroads look bad. They made Amtrak look bad in Silver Streak. They made CN and BNSF look bad in Unstoppable. LOL

Theres no sound like a GM DIESEL.

Copyright claim

The last of the GOOD OLD DAY'S...before the IMMIGRANT $UPREMACIST took over......

The elephant in the room here Canada was a British Scottish country with get western values. Welcome tour genocide and suicide thanks to traitor governments and people who have lost there pride and patriotism replaced with narcissistic virtue signaling.

Thank you for NOT ADDING, Anything! I'm sick of all the "Soup" selling of someone added their bad taste in music! So thanks again!! The parked train with the birds mountains....an engine. A distant horn, just like home! Beautiful!

Incredible!