Please watch: "5BX "Five Basic Exercises"- Royal Canadian Air Force Training Film (1959)" • 5BX "Five Basic Exerci... -~- #Canadianpacific #CN100 #CP #Winnipeg #CN #Canada
You can still ride these cars. VIA Rail inherited them from Canadian Pacific and we still run them. The sleeper cars are as they were in the 1950s. Vancouver to Edmonton is a very popular and beautiful train ride, especially with rail fans. Our fleet of stainless steel Budd cars is road ready and was fully paid for 50 years ago. The fabrics and interior finish have been changed a few times over the decades but the steel is all original. We no longer use the Kicking Horse Pass route, as a certain government gave that to our arch enemies at RMR, but the Yellowhead is still spectacular. The bullet shaped Park cars are well worth it. No smoking on board anymore, of course.
Sad but true, sure hope they were/are well compensated. Hoping we ha e since come up with a rig of some sort to do the job without endangering folks 🤞😬🤞...
The old boys were the real railroaders cleaning switches out , delivering train orders and lining track by eye and inspecting. Us railroaders now will never have to work ethic or knowledge like the old boys had if only we could have a sliver of what they had.
What a shame that the narrator was not credited. He could read the listings in the phone book and make it sound like the most fascinating subject you ever heard. And isn't that some exquisite penmanship by Mr. Harry Croft, although I imagine he would have plenty of practice.
@garyhersemeyer2642 We feel we should reupload this in better quality, though we regret we don't have the opening scenes. Thanks for understanding 🙏!!!
I used to work for CN Telecommunications. Back in the mid 70s, when I worked in Northern Ontario, I maintained the equipment those wires connected to. As mentioned in the film, they carried the CBC radio feed, telegrams, dispatchers traffic, phone calls and much more. With that equipment, you could get 16 voice circuits over a pair of wires. You'll see the cross arms on the poles in that film. Each cross arm would carry 5 pairs, which meant 80 voice circuits per cross arm and there were usually a few cross arms on the pole. There would also be one pair, on the lowest cross arm, marked with the letter "D". This designated the dispatchers phone and the rail employees could connect a portable phone to that pair. When I was working along the CN main line, somewhere between Capreol and Armstrong, I would often get on that phone (inside, I didn't have to climb a pole 🙂) to arrange for a train, often a freight, to stop and give me a ride.
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We so second what you mean, super spell-casting almost with the narrators' voices and what not 😂... That having been said, it is one of the reasons we ourselves are suckers and thank you in advance for please subscribing as we have hundreds more on the way where that came from 😊!!!
I used to live in BC and have travelled many times the Trans Canada between Revelstoke and Banff and to experience the bightingly cold temperatures and winds along Rogers pass in the winter only goes to strengthen my admiration for the guys who worked the line there. Of and Field has a really good cafe I highly recommend! Thank you for uploading this, I have always loved this one. Do you have Cavendish Country? NFB no longer have it on their site. It’s a wonderful documentary on the Canadian country singer Cal Cavendish!
Hi there, and thank you for the kind words. While we regret we do not have Cavendish country, we invite you to please check out the other titles we have already uploaded and more still on the way 👍😊👍!!!
Couple of questions for someone: Is that line still a single track today? I've heard of a beautiful East-West passenger train trip through Canada. Is this the route?
