Canadian National Railway Cab Ride Part 3

[morfeusz120]

Perfect video! Great

[sidomitch]

@morfeusz120.. Thanks for commenting..

Richard.

[harry811]

Are they getting paid by the hour or by the job to deliver the goods? If they get paid by the hour they take their sweet time. If they get paid by the job they'll be going a 100 mph.

[records26]

i MISS trains running through algonquin park... oh dear god how i miss it. that was a part of my childhood... camping in Achray and watching trains all day with canoeing breaks in between... this brings back memories and i long for the past...

[sidomitch]

@records26 Glad you liked the video. All that's missing is the scent of diesel smoke, and creosote.

Richard.

[lexmarks567]

what are those white things at 4:50 look like moble homes

[sidomitch]

@lexmarks567 They are living quarters for maintenance of way workers, who were doing tie-replacement for miles of track along there.

[joshuapeg]

@sidomitch

Those would be called white fleets and they are they have to be the worst living quarters ever...especially if you have a room mate that doesn't shower. 

[trainwatcher116]

is this a SD60F

[sidomitch]

@trainwatcher116 It's a GP40-2 ( W ).

[trainwatcher116]

@sidomitch have been wondering what it was like up in a CN cab

[sidomitch]

@trainwatcher116 They generally rode like a Cadillac, and were toasty-warm ( in the winter vids. I took ). The diesels were "music" anywhere from an idle, to full-out in notch 8. Big, smooth and powerfull. The engineer said in Pt.1, that the 2 of them were "jumpy", leaving the yard. Reminded me of a team of horses that wanted to go for a run. Thanks for watching, and commenting.

Richard.

[trainwatcher116]

@sidomitch no problem love those cn horns too music to my ears,maybe you can get a few ES44DC cab rides to that would be AWESOME!!!!

[morfeusz120]

Great video.The Best video.5*****

[sidomitch]

Thanks for watching, subscribing, and compliments !

[kitchener2200]

Great video. Where was the train switching at in the yard in part 3?

Thanks.

[sidomitch]

May have been Portage du Fort, Quebec.

[radioxdeath]

what would a crew do if they had a knuckle on a bridge??? I've always wondered

[sidomitch]

Dunno... you'd have to ask a railway man.

[burtman12]

i'm new to this, why slow down?

[sidomitch]

Bridges are old and have speed restrictions to reduce pounding and vibrations.

[paljoeyonce]

Hello from North Bay! What river is being crossed 3:35 in? Awesome!

[sidomitch]

That's the Ottawa River.

[admydragonch2]

sounds like the default msts Dash-9 horn

[GP9railfan]

Sort of. That looks like the inside of a GP40-2W cab. Pan Am Rail (Guilford) has a bunch of those.

[ConrailSD70MAC]

The CN Beachburg subdivision, an old Canadian Northern RR property, was a dark railroad from Kanata (Nepean Jct.) to North Bay. OCS or Track Occupancy Permits. There was CTC between Ottawa Station and Nepean Jct.

VIA did operate The Canadian from Ottawa to Bells Corners (Bells Jct.) till 1991. Every freight train operating on the Beachburg Sub (going east or west) had to report past Nepean Jct to the dispatcher in Montreal.

[EMDFAN1988]

Sick fuckin K5H

[Ivecofan09]

Whats happening here? There reversing the locomotive a couple of times,,, They dropping of cars or collecting more?

[sidomitch]

Yes...setting-off or picking-up cars.

[SD457500]

Nice video, I bet you couldn't do that nowadays!  What was your power? Two SD40-2Ws?

[sidomitch]

I think thats what they were. If you watch Part 1, you can see them in the yard, making-up the train.

[JT872]

WHAT CITY YALL IN

[sidomitch]

This was from Ottawa Ont. Canada, to the next crew change spot in Brent, Algonquin Park Ont., in the middle of nowhere in the bush, by a lake!

[JT872]

WHAT IS NAME OF THE RIVER

[sidomitch]

It's the Ottawa River.

[flexspinner]

looks really kool man

[sidomitch]

This crew was great to let me film..really good guys! Thanks for watching!