All Aboard - The Construction and Grand Opening of Calgary's CTrain (1981)

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Күн бұрын

Produced by Mach 2 Film Productions Limited for the Public Information Department and Transportation Department. The City of Calgary
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@mikedrown2721 Жыл бұрын

I was here in 1974 and went up in the Calgary Tower. Wow!.... the city sure has changed!

@MrZics 9 ай бұрын

The city right now is around 3x the population it was then

@JasonMclaughlin-c5z 11 ай бұрын

In 1981, the first line of the C-Train line is the South One. 4 years later the Northeast line and 2 years later the Northwest line.

@DavidBale-vn4op 7 ай бұрын

We can't seem to do that anymore build.

@Game_Hero 6 ай бұрын

@@DavidBale-vn4op the green line already started construction last year

@BALL0ONKNOT 6 ай бұрын

I’ve always had a personal sense of pride in the C-Train. My dad was one of the Chief electrical engineers on that project. I‘m sure I logged a few thousand kilometres riding that thing as a teenager with my student transit pass… at least until I got my license and a 1981 Mustang in 1990.

@CalGarian-qn9pw 8 ай бұрын

legend has it Mayor Klein drove that C-Train right to the King Eddy for a beer.

@thecoolguynamedal 6 ай бұрын

And threw money at a homeless

@CalgaryBen 8 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this blast from the past! Especially seeing old landmarks, businesses, etc. that are now a distant memory. I liked that that there were a few tunnels and elevated portions to minimize interfaces with motor vehicle traffic (with the exceptions at 25/36/50/58/61 Ave). It's too bad they didn't spend the money to further reduce at-grade intersections. I can't count how many vehicle-vs-train accidents have happened over the years, especially in the NE along 36 Street. I'd love to see a documentary on the underground tunnel under City Hall and along Stephen Avenue, and the viability of that. I remember Mayor Bronconnier putting lots of energy/money into reviving/developing the tunnel for use on the west leg, before the floods of 2013.

@CnekYT Жыл бұрын

oh wow this is really cool, is there any kind of video for the 1985 Northeast leg?

@TonyVRailfanning Жыл бұрын

It’s a shame the city did not truly see growth in the LRT only making the stations downtown and some other stations long enough for 3 cars, that really put a stranglehold on its ability to carry its potential to 5 cars. The city had to rebuild all new platforms 10 years ago unlike Edmontons who opened 4 years earlier and were all 5 car capable

@renegaderabbit222 11 ай бұрын

they are now 4 car platforms in Calgary not 5, 7th ave does not have long enough blocks for 5 cars

@JasonMclaughlin-c5z 3 ай бұрын

After the Opening of the first C-Train line in May 25th, Calgary won the bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics on September 30th. That's back in 1981.

@BLAKHARTFILM 8 ай бұрын

I was a bus driver for the City of Calgary in 1981 and saw a lot of issues with the C-train (Crash-train). Accidents, derailments, fire, that never made the news. Seems King Klein had a lot of pull with the local media (he was previously a journalist).

@platec4798 14 күн бұрын

When people complain about the Green Line not being built fast enough, I am happy to remind them that we have been working on LRT expansion since 1981 and that it will eventually get built. We should just budget one station at a time and eventually we will get it all done. We ploted along with the other areas and directions of the LRT and it all came together.

@garneybaker 8 ай бұрын

It was later found that the wheel flange profile on the wheels supplied by Simmons were not compatible with the std AREA 100lb #8 switch points that were installed on the South leg. Many derailments were encountered when maintenance on the downtown tunnel, near Stampede Station, forced the use of single track running. Modified Samson style points were developed jointly between the City of Calgary, Pacific Northern Rail Contractors, and EGB Manufacturing of Cochrane Alberta. Many sets of these points are still in service on the South leg.

@JGProductions6581 Жыл бұрын

Look at how far we have come since 1980. And I live in Toronto.

@goldenhourkodak Жыл бұрын

We have not come far at all. We pretty much stopped progress after this. And you should know, Toronto has a way more robust and large transit system. In Calgary you are screwed if you do not woke or live near a train and have no choice but to drive everywhere.

@DavidBale-vn4op 7 ай бұрын

TTC is the best. Edmonton tries harder than Calgary in transit.

@KevinVeroneau 11 ай бұрын

The city seemed much more optimistic back then. Much more full of life.

@altrag 8 ай бұрын

Calgary (and Alberta more broadly) were hit hard in 2009 when Obama opened up fracking in the US. Right after the already downturned market caused by the 2008 financial crash. Within about 2 years the price of oil went from over $100/barrel to less than $40. The oil sands projects all stalled as that stuff is too expensive to produce, and the traditional oil and gas was far less profitable than it had been only a couple years earlier. That finally started to recover by the mid-late 2010s, just in time for the next double-whammy of increasing climate awareness around the world and then covid. The former in particular is going to be challenging as it means the entire oil and gas industry is on a bit of a death spiral. It's not dead yet but it's only a matter of time. I've been saying for years that Alberta needs to diversify its industry, but as I'm just some nobody on the internet (who no longer even lives in the province), they've been stubbornly unwilling to listen to my pleas. Instead they just keep doubling down over and over again on trying to keep their singularly prioritized industry hobbling along in a world that is becoming less and less interested in the products they're selling, and doing irreparable harm to both the environment and their own economy in the meantime as they funnel more and more public dollars toward subsidizing no-longer-competitive businesses in the hopes that they will recover "some day".

@A-classic-smithy 4 ай бұрын

@altrag let's face it, alberta lives and dies by natural resources, you can bake a cake 50000 different ways and that's not gonna save the cake store, aka you can't just say "diversify!!!" And magically it's all good. The rest of cute and fun ideas rests ontop of the oilsands, without it, you have a wasteland. Edmonton and calgary will eventually become detroit 2.0

@A-classic-smithy 4 ай бұрын

@KevinVeroneau It's wild. Edmonton has always been a dump but calgary is basically the same. I grew up in calgary and it's just not the same city anymore 😪

@KevinVeroneau 4 ай бұрын

@A-classic-smithy Moved to Calgary back in 2015, and it seemed really nice back then. Visited Edmonton several times to check out the mall, but it didn't feel like a dump, but I was only a visiting tourist so I never saw the city's underbelly.

@rodcappon6249 8 ай бұрын

How long after is opened did it take for the c-train to suffer it first derailment. About 15 seconds, The opening ceremony signaled the opening of the line by driving a train through a ribbon. the new Mayor Ralph Klein was at the control of said train and he was a little aggressive driving the train. The result was the moment he hit the first switch the train derailed. That incident was quietly swept under the rug.

@jinglejazz7537 6 ай бұрын

I remember the 1st week of operation. I was downtown along 7th avenue, they had an accident with the trains, one rear ended another 1981. I heard the alarms going off. Here that...west germany! I liked the blue colour, not the red.

@matthewbrown8486 Жыл бұрын

ALL ABOARD!

@Johnforreal 8 ай бұрын

Super cool vid

@adamrosendahl8090 5 ай бұрын

Funny how Calgary still has a few of those same old trains on the tracks. Sad.

@le_brettski 10 ай бұрын

Calgary Mayor Rod Sykes Council is to thank for the first leg of the LRT being approved in 1976. He’s still in Calgary at a youthful 94 years old. He also wants to #recallgondek

@user-yg1dg6xm2g 7 ай бұрын

They are still running the same train cars from 1981.

@havok9001 6 ай бұрын

i been on that before they switch to new ones... i started ride that in late 2004 to early 2005 back in high school

@user-yg1dg6xm2g 6 ай бұрын

@@havok9001 They are still running the same train cars from the 1980s. You still see them from time to time if you are a regular rider.

@DavidBale-vn4op 7 ай бұрын

The bridge collapse over the elbow river late in construction. Should have buried it downtown like Edmonton did.

@djteako 6 ай бұрын

They couldn't, or it would have been "the sea train" It wasn't made very well known, but due to Calgary's very high water table, especially downtown, had they went underground with it ,it would have been constantly flooded.

@mike4food 7 ай бұрын

I want to know why we are using new low floor train cars and just not keep using the ones we have

@silveryrealm 11 ай бұрын

time when the Calgary Tower was the tallest, talk about change.

@DS-rw5zz Ай бұрын

Really really miss those early years of Canada. Less people, people were civilized and polite. Streets were clean. Everything was so much tidier and cleaner and nicer. Now you have hate protests against to Jews, crime sky rocketed, cars and bikes kept stolen, huge deficit and inflation ran by liberals and NDPs kept adding taxes that people can't afford to live....