Hop on board a Canadian National freight train heading eastbound out of Jasper, Alberta toward Edmonton, on the Edson Subdivision.
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@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp4 жыл бұрын
It is almost impossible to take a "bad" video or photo in Jasper, AB. It is one of the prettiest locations on our planet!
@Island_Line_Rail_Productions8 жыл бұрын
would love to see this route at sunset with a clear sky..must be so amazing to run trains through here....so much to see....never would get old,...moose ...deer.....birds...amazing sunsets etc
4 жыл бұрын
That's why they wrote the song "Canadian sunset"
@rusty77203 жыл бұрын
Wonder if he has seen any Big Foot.
@hoggrken Жыл бұрын
Leaving Jasper eastbound on the train just before sunrise was a special experience!
@joshualindner61843 жыл бұрын
I'm from the states and I drove a tractor-trailer through Jasper National Park going to Edmonton. What a beautiful drive!!!
@BBINGHAM0323526 жыл бұрын
My family traveled out here to Alberta from Ontario by train in 1955 when I was only 3 years old and I still remember some of that experience. My parents bought me a Lionel model train set in the early 1960s. I have always loved trains. Greetings from Edmonton!
@briang60406 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful. Train conductors definitely have the best jobs for getting to witness natures scenic beauty.
@aldean29847 жыл бұрын
Omfg! Insanely Beautiful scenery! Woooooow! Love the EMD's 2-stroke diesel sound, it's the best sound i've ever experienced on a diesel locomotive. 2nd gen and 3rd gen locomotives are favorite imo.
@ChalkRiverFan9 жыл бұрын
Railway people say their job is boring. With majestic awesome views like this, I would enjoy every stellar moment. Fantastic Video.
@HDCanadianTrainVideos7 жыл бұрын
John M I wouldn't be bored working out of Jasper. but I'm in a Saskatchewan terminal where it's flat and boring so my job is boring haha
@trainzguy24726 жыл бұрын
If you worked in the great plains that would be boring.
@ivanmanagh65747 жыл бұрын
I wish I was a driver of that train, best scenery ever, and great for cruising in a camper.
@leonidaslozanoaranda98683 жыл бұрын
Ions
@leonidaslozanoaranda98683 жыл бұрын
O
@leonidaslozanoaranda98683 жыл бұрын
O
@leonidaslozanoaranda98683 жыл бұрын
I outwit oily oils opened
@billdang39533 жыл бұрын
Probably just another day at the office for the train crew, at least this office looks more appealing than a prairie "boxcar branchline".
@lucianomagnani77763 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic place! I work as a train driver in Brazil, how pleasant it would be to work there.
@vettebecker14 жыл бұрын
Would love to watch this in its entirety, love it. Thanks for sharing
@maggiemorris48833 жыл бұрын
In 1974 I sat on the top of a mountain for almost the whole day. Breathtaking and sacred!
@skronck15 жыл бұрын
I worked as an RTC on the Edson Sub quite a bit over the course of my career, Started when it was still single track east of Jasper. There used to be two tracks between Henry House and Devona, too.
@daveg71726 жыл бұрын
I remember living on a whitefleet on the right track around 5 minutes in, just west of the first bridge. Always a breathtaking view to get up to every morning.
@youraveragejoe24 жыл бұрын
@@timhudson5856 2nd view
@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I'd love to see the same in winter! Must be incredible to see in real life!
@goodeye037 жыл бұрын
What a spectacular ride that is, even more beautiful covered in snow..Such beautiful country.
@syrmaine9 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic. The word "spectacular" isn't good enough to describe the majesty of the Canadian Rockies - especially from the front end of a train. Way to go Mr. Vazquez!!
@stephenwissel79024 жыл бұрын
I bet that view never goes old!
@dave32168 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. Wish there was more.
@darrenhaverlock7025 Жыл бұрын
This is why I always wanted to become an train engineer such beautiful sights I really hope I can make it into this career field some day a childhood dream
@TnHeadHunter5567 жыл бұрын
Spectacular view to see while working
@fredthompson79477 жыл бұрын
Very pleasing video to start the day with.Very beautiful!!
@jslasher18 жыл бұрын
Great video. Travelled this route aboard the CN 'Super Continental' in the 1960s.
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
I remember truck driving thru in the winter from Vancouver to Edmonton and you'd be so tired you didn't even remember the last leg from Hinton to eddy
@sivayamsiva93433 жыл бұрын
Beautiful ride really great ,thank you for sharing
@dianneklemmer9381 Жыл бұрын
Wow what a view! Beautiful 😍
@robertkerr30597 жыл бұрын
nice quality video, canada is beautiful
@rebaqubac8 жыл бұрын
Eine Besonders Schöne Mitfahrgelegenheit! DANKE Am Ende des Films das gigantische Felsmassiv macht einen auch extrem an, zum selber erkunden, wenn es die mittel hergäben:-)
@Lt_Col.Henry_Blake6 жыл бұрын
Wow. I again, suddenly, wish that I could grow up to be a train engineer.
@markg9997 жыл бұрын
Amazing scenery
@louislokuta96177 жыл бұрын
Stunning views. Makes me want to hire out for the CN.
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
You can tell it's CN by all the swearing....lol (I used to work there...)
@clonetrooper5767 жыл бұрын
THAT EMD ENGINE !!!!!
@wendys85719 жыл бұрын
beautiful. I stay in hinton for a few weeks in the winter. The Rocky Mountains are so awesome. No words to describe the beauty. Never tire of them.
@Narpets21128 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful. I need more! haha
@reginald20047 жыл бұрын
Greatest office in the world. Always changing.
@MrMarvin577 жыл бұрын
amazing scenery Canada is beautiful
@geoffreylee51998 жыл бұрын
It was in this area that the CN and GTP paralleled their routes. This film is terrific, not sure of your location, but will explore more of your films.
@EnjoyFreeDownload8 жыл бұрын
what a beautiful view :O
@rein17056 жыл бұрын
wow! i want the whole ride!
@slycat19396 жыл бұрын
Awesome so beautiful. Wow. Thanks for sharing. Safe travels ahead. God bless
@ClinchValleySD404 жыл бұрын
Beautiful ride, thanks
@TRONDROM4 жыл бұрын
There's Jasper Alberta.
@TheAdamRides6 жыл бұрын
Can't pull myself away from this, absolutely stunning. Real time railroading and beautiful scenery. Is the head end unit an CN SD60?
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the sd40s that AMF rebuilt in the 80s
@hoggrken Жыл бұрын
GMDD SD70M-2 .. 'DC drive 'sister' to the SD70 ACe 🙂
@philliplee9808 жыл бұрын
beautiful scenery's love it.
@thomasfawcett94477 жыл бұрын
I subscribed, because you have some assume videos. Thanks for letting me experience your type of work, and I will keep watching your new ones in the future. Tom?
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
That's pretty hard on the ears after 10 hours
@TransCanadaPhil9 жыл бұрын
id like to be able to take some cab videos too if i could, especially the ctrain
@trippyarbrough25837 жыл бұрын
Looks like Bob Ross painted this...
@-watermelonking2 жыл бұрын
That sand cap was moving a bit.
@andrewellis1586 жыл бұрын
The video is beautiful. It looks like CN removed some of the double track in the middle part of the video. Any idea why?
@judgedredd86576 жыл бұрын
because hunter harrison was CEO at the time and he sold the rail
@RogerDiotte5 жыл бұрын
@@judgedredd8657 No doubt, likely true~! More efficient...OMG.
@wasted66666 жыл бұрын
Awesome Video Man
@benmussolini22845 жыл бұрын
Is there any maximum speed in the Rockies? Or can they let her rip when they want to.?
@squidrides63397 жыл бұрын
So beautiful.
@cn95588 жыл бұрын
wow. Great video!
@donc12836 жыл бұрын
Great video Chris. What video camera are you using?
@konstantink74098 жыл бұрын
Look. Upper light is green, but two lower ones are red. What is it mean? In Russian railroads green light means next semaphore is opened, yellow light is next semaphore is closed. It is impossible to light red and another
@chrisvazquez78 жыл бұрын
In Canada, a signal only means stop if ALL lights are red. If a light is red but others are different colours, it's only there as a placeholder. If you want to learn about our signal system, you can look at this pdf somebody made: www.calgarymodelrailway.ca/galleries/Keay/Do%20Canadian%20Railroad%20Signals%20Make%20Sense%205.pdf
@chrisvazquez78 жыл бұрын
And to reply directly to your question, if the light on top is green, but other signals are red, that means "Clear Signal", and there is no speed restriction (this is the most common signal).
@konstantink74098 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir (or maybe ma'am?) Good and useful thing for a foreign railman :) But may I make some notices about yor design? Or it is not your document?
@chrisvazquez78 жыл бұрын
+Konstantin K It's not my document. I just found it online after a quick Google search.
@stevenvance96907 жыл бұрын
Konstantin K
@richardhammer65594 жыл бұрын
Worked on a steel gang west of Jasper in 74
@lovecntrains27322 жыл бұрын
This is where the CN and VR Rail train collided ni 1986
@dougb5202 Жыл бұрын
Well, not quite, but close. CN & VIA collided east of Hinton. Hinton is still a little ways east from where this video ended.
@naetz3 ай бұрын
The 1986 Hinton train collision was at the station just east of the town Hinton called “dalehurst” approximately at mile 176 on the Edson subdivision
@engineer-iv1oq4 жыл бұрын
best video on youtube, nice job
@niborselrahc46517 жыл бұрын
I think you did an excellent job with your phone. I get a real sense of what your working environment is like and the view....well....works fail me.
@matthewgillespie28357 жыл бұрын
Am I correct in saying that engineers only ever really get one route during their career with few fluctuations? Inform me on this(long answer is preferable, also would like an engineer to reply).
@chrisvazquez77 жыл бұрын
Matt Gellespie It really depends on the city you work out of. Most terminals in North America will have at least two subdivisions or directions you can work on out of town. Some of the bigger hubs have a dozen different lines. Holding a certain job is based on seniority, so usually engineers will work a long time on one line before they hold enough seniority for another. Also, transferring terminals is usually allowed but also based on seniority. So yes, the route you work as an engineer may not change for 20 years, but each work day is always different.
@alsouza82845 жыл бұрын
Muito bonito!
@batuhangulmus60096 жыл бұрын
Very successful video . I like. Because extremely is good .
@zorancosic12377 жыл бұрын
Damn! So beautiful isn't funny!
@gracenauen98286 жыл бұрын
Zoran Cosic Wonderful Country
@endsdio48346 жыл бұрын
Can a 19 year old find work easily on the railroad? Have both American and Canadian citizenship.
@RogerDiotte5 жыл бұрын
As old as 50 something, I have proof! But yes if your 19 definitely do it and STAY regardless of your ups and downs cause in 35 years or points you'll be full pension in your 50's so you'll be very happily set with a steady pay cheque and money invested cause you'll make oodles along the way. You'll cry blue if you hire about working nights then days then nights so get ready for the whine but...in less than 10 years it'll level out and you'll have seniority and that my friend is something everyone below you WANTS!
@RailfansQuebec8 жыл бұрын
is it an SD60 ?
@chrisvazquez78 жыл бұрын
I'm not exactly sure. I looked back through my logs and I didn't write down a locomotive number (This was a training trip). Sorry, thanks for watching!
@MP34.98 жыл бұрын
sounds like an SD60
@SpencerAK74M8 жыл бұрын
+Coleto Creek Rail Productions Looks like an SD70Ace variant
@MP34.98 жыл бұрын
SpencerAK74M The nose is from a Standard Cab so it couldnt be an ACe
@SpencerAK74M8 жыл бұрын
Yeah you're right. I don't know what I was thinking... Just looked up build specs. Lol
@Bammer20017 жыл бұрын
Damn, no wonder it's so sparse around here. It's mostly natural vegetation.
@sd40luver5 жыл бұрын
6000 series?
@RRVideosAndSound7 жыл бұрын
why dont they call the signals like they do up to Field?
@chrisvazquez77 жыл бұрын
We did call each signal, but it was either too quiet to hear over the rumble of the locomotive, or was during a time I wasn't recording.
@ste890x7 жыл бұрын
wonderful
@dsfsdffdshdsf18754 жыл бұрын
awesome
@joshsegall37187 жыл бұрын
is it warm in the trains
@goodeye037 жыл бұрын
Yes, they have heaters in the locomotives. And A/C too.
@zackboone157 жыл бұрын
What kind of locomotive is this?
@tator057 жыл бұрын
SD60
@silicon2126 жыл бұрын
we sure about that? It sounds like a GP38-2, roots blown 645.
@Chasingrail4 жыл бұрын
silicon212 GP38s don’t have that center plate on the nose the SD60s have.
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
That is why Canada doesn't worry about being invaded, it's too fucking big to round everyone up...lol
@thomasjsanford62967 жыл бұрын
I thought Jasper National Park was in the mountains, but this video starts out with the mountains in the distance, and ends with the mountains STILL quite a ways in the distance, and the train has climbed very little in elevation... I don't think this was a "Cab ride through Jasper National Park.." It's actually a cab ride LONG before you'd actually get there...
@chrisvazquez77 жыл бұрын
Thomas J Sanford Hey thanks for watching! I promise you this video was taken in Jasper National Park. The Yellowhead Pass is a very wise pass through the mountains so it appears that they are far away but we're still heading through the Rockies.
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
This was always the best choice for a route thru the Rockies, Canadian Pacific only chose the more Southerly route because the financial backing was from the Canadian government and they wanted to make it a barrier to the United states which was pushing in from the south, at one time during the gold rush the stars and stripes was flying in Yale B.C. until the mounties took it down
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
It takes up to 2hrs to drive a transport truck thru jasper depending on the elk ,moose and the weather
@markhughes72734 ай бұрын
You are in the Athabaska river valley in Jasper park .It’s a large valley with mountains on both sides .The railway and highway run parallel to each other going into the town site .Looks like the train is crossing the Snaring river just before the Jasper townsite . My father in law was a hog head on the CN west end did the Edmonton to Edson run .They change crews at Edson for the run to Jasper
@judgedredd86578 жыл бұрын
the east en run, faster but I prefer working the west end
@mdgfb058 жыл бұрын
what loco?
@NorthernRailsTrainsInTheNorth8 жыл бұрын
as a guess I'd say a SD60
@mdgfb058 жыл бұрын
ok
@artmchugh56446 жыл бұрын
Let me get this straight, you get paid to do this ? 😄😄😄😄😎😎
@RogerDiotte5 жыл бұрын
Yea, after grinding it out as low man on seniority for several years with layoffs thrown in there then the odd time forced to different terminals quite away from home which may become your new home if you want a job. Then night after night of oddball calls to various shifts in rain and white outs....Till you get wrote up for Engineer then you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel which takes awhile but it comes.
@artmchugh56444 жыл бұрын
We are riding our ducati out there from Pennsylvania next summer! !! Those mountains! !!
@Land9677 жыл бұрын
Though the US train system is fairly shite, American train drivers do get the best views. Though that should apply to any train in Europe and America (not counting UK as it's fairly bland)
@chrisvazquez77 жыл бұрын
Land967 This is in Canada.
@Land9677 жыл бұрын
Canada is a country on the continent of America. America does not just mean the U.S.A. and those bunch of crazies. :) My comment was aimed at all train drivers on said continent, not a particular country but can easily state "North American train drivers" if it helps
@chrisvazquez77 жыл бұрын
Land967 haha fair enough. You can understand why us Canadians don't like being called "Americans"... but I get what you're saying. Thanks for watching :)
@geminiinc10424 жыл бұрын
Nice scenery but outdated rail system
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
How so? , for your information CN was the first to use piggyback for intermodal in north America and the first to completely dieselize
@bradjames67482 жыл бұрын
Oh and btw ,the Gemini space capsule was designed by jim Chamberlain, a Canadian citizen born in Kamloops B.C. just down the line from Jasper
@VTSPQR5 жыл бұрын
Good, but fake as hell....
@chrisvazquez75 жыл бұрын
VTSPQR lol I assure you it is not fake.
@RogerDiotte5 жыл бұрын
Fake? VTSPQR is known to live in Kansas and never went past IOWA...LOL.
@dougb5202 Жыл бұрын
Fake? I know that some of these train simulator games are getting very good, however they are not quite this realistic.