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It was fun to watch this piece of nostalgic Canadiana. One thing I noticed is most of these railway workers looked retirement age or older!

Hard but satisfying work for sure. I wonder if that '58 Chevy was a company car?



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These NFB films are just fantastic!



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I agree, trains ran on OFI, old fashioned intelligence. 2 people in the caboose, now none.



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Great film and a nostalgia look back. Thanx for posting Todd.

Interesting seeing a hundred car freight taking the siding for a couple passenger trains or 'First Class' trains as they were called then.

I worked for GO Transit (commuter rail) in Toronto as Chief Coordinator in the Rail Operations Centre at Union Station in Toronto from

1979 thru 2006 and many many times our 4000+ passenger trains were side lined waiting for a CN or CP freight or even a VIA rail

passenger train.

CN and CP did the actual dispatching upon our request but we still took second fiddle to freights.  no.

Rumour was that customers like GM and Ford paid CN and CP performance bonuses to keep the freights moving.

 



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I watched the first bit, and the landscape looked like the Canadian Prairies.



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Excellent, Todd.

It was cool to see the mix of steam and diesel still on the tracks.  The video stated that, at that time, 65% of the locomotives were diesel.  I seem to recall hearing that Canada made the switch from steam a little later than the US, and therefore some railfans from south of the border would come to Canada to photograph the last of the steam locomotives still in action.

The maintenance shop looked like a cool place to work.  Hard work, but to be surrounded by all that cool stuff would be a dream come true.  A heavy-duty shop in the most real sense.

It also struck me that people seemed to be more sensible and serious then (though I'm sure they were at their best for the video).  I have to say I kind of miss the older generation that have now passed... we have lost something intangible that makes society a little less bearable nowadays (my opinion only).  Not that I'm stuck in the past, mind you...

Anyhow... great video!



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Excellent, Todd.

It also struck me that people seemed to be more sensible and serious then (though I'm sure they were at their best for the video).  I have to say I kind of miss the older generation that have now passed... we have lost something intangible that makes society a little less bearable nowadays (my opinion only).  Not that I'm stuck in the past, mind you...

Anyhow... great video!

 So very, very true........smile



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Another Canadian railroad gem: "Railroad Town" profiles Melville Saskatchewan and some of the railway workers who live there. 



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That was another good one!

"Boomer" started working in 1905 and retired in 1955, at age 65.  How many people work for 50 years now... especially for the same company?



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That was another good one!

"Boomer" started working in 1905 and retired in 1955, at age 65.  How many people work for 50 years now... especially for the same company?

Sent this to a buddy that had a similar career for about 40 years with the CPR making it up to Conductor.

Met him in 1981 when GO Transit started the Milton service and 'Newlly' was our first (and best) Conductor.

Thanx Todd - these are great and I do remember Fred Davis from Canadian TV of many years ago...smile



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This one is pretty good too, although its a humoros film starring Buster Keaton. 



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