VIA 15 passing CN 307 Crowes Mills Road near Truro 16 May 2004

[rrpics]

Personally I too prefer the Stainless Steel cars and now rarely travel on trains that do not have a dome car. That is why the Chaleur (Montreal Gaspé train) is my favourite VIA train. As a bonus it has a real dining car with excellent food at very reasonable prices.

[rrpics]

This is just a short clip because of the upload time. I actually filmed it all and if IIRC it is all on the DVD.

[CNRailWabamun]

Now that is an Excellent shot!! Sure was going fast for getting up that nasty hill, I love it

[UAL2842]

Still the best way to cross the country!

[dwkcamman611]

Excellent!

[73whiskers]

that was Crowes Mills where I call home

[ajkopy]

Youtube ,could you be any slower loading video's. sense you have changed the format.Youtube now sucks!!!!!

[racethevolvo]

what was the speed of that?

[rrpics]

My gues would be about 50 mph

[rrpics]

One has to be very careful even on a public road crossing because a piece of metal straping on a loaded car could come loose and kill or seriously injure you!

[DennyAlbert]

Excellent video! It feels like I am right there!!!!!!!

[Jorlzin]

That crossing will knock your teeth out if you're doing more than 5km/h over it :S

Great video.

[rrpics]

Yes 6000 horsepower! Imagine lining 6000 horses up behind one another on the hill or even 5 abreast!

[ebouwman034]

@rrpics CN doesn't run anything that powerfull that i'm aware of

[rrpics]

The freight train routinley has two locomotives for about 8000 horsepower and the passenger train has 6000 horsepower. The bigger freights into Halifax (#120) often has four locomotives for more than 16,000 horsepower.

[ebouwman034]

@rrpics I didn't realize that via found it necessary to run a 6000 HP engine, seems a bit overkill

[rrpics]

VIA normally assigns one 3000 hp engine per 10 cars. The Ocean is normaly between 12 and 20 cars and so has two 3000 hp F40PH-2 locomotives (most of which have now been rebuilt with separate HEP generators).

[ebouwman034]

@rrpics So it's like i said, nobody runs a 6000 HP unit in canada

[trainguyONR]

wow, you can really appreciate the power of locomotives when you see them pulling trains up hills like this

[LackawannaLtdVideos]

Excellent video; it's amazing they didn't just put a fill across that gully, as opposed to dropping the right-of-way right through it (although I don't know the lay-of-the-land there at all).

[rrpics]

Thank you.

The siding is at least two miles long so I estimate that the fill would have to be at least three quaters of a mile long anf for only a dozen trains each day it is not economically worth while!

[chickengeorg123]

have you seen? the train have a very bad track

[rrpics]

Actually I did film the whole thing but edited it for convenience.

[dashloc]

Nice shot ! the F40 is just scary !!

[TrainmasterCurt]

Now that's a roller coaster track!!!

[Bennyboy46a]

Were you also filming at that crossing in this past 2 years? i drove through there a couple times while someone was filming a very similar shot, Via passing the CN.

[rrpics]

Maybe once. More often I am in the Halifax - Dartmouth area.

[KRG2645]

Did you use the terms of use before upload, and, if you don't mind, if I can post you're video of CN & VIA going west, I just want to pay tribute.

[rrpics]

IIRC I had to accept the terms before I was registered as a user.

You can embed the clips in your web page by using the html code above. I have done this on my web page in the video section.

If you need help please e-mail me.

[KRG2645]

And yes, I mite need some more info about this IIRC.

[Godzillasam]

Frig that was fast!

[rainman29]

ya now that i watched it again you are right about that crossing bell.........once again great vid keep it up enjoy watching them!!!!!!!!

[rainman29]

Is it just me or did that horn sound really muffled on the loco?

[rrpics]

The microphone's sensitivity is probably affected by the crossing bell.

[TrainmasterCurt]

Nice Eastern VIA vid