Montreal Electrics - The Final Days Cab Rides (1995 Video Classics)

"Tape covers the final days of Montreal's vintage electric commuter trains to Deux-Montagnes. Includes 1914 Box Cabs, Steeple Cabs, and M.U.s. Many runbys plus cab rides through Mt. Royal tunnel."
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[@jamesblunt942]

On the last day of electric operations, I finally got to hoop an electric engine. I'd been an operator for a number of years previously and had passed orders up to almost every type of engine CN had, including steam, but never an electric engine

[@derrickwong5337]

What a history of Montreal Electrics movie is great.

[@TDIMAXDIESEL]

Good souvenirs ! Thanks for sharing 😁

[@daemoncan2364]

Had several cab rides on the EMU's, but never saw the box/steeplecab perspective. Thanks for posting this.

[@paul-andrelarose3389]

Excellent video that illustrates the foresight originally displayed in the system. Unfortunately, after a period of some two decades where the infrastructures were partially upgraded, the whole system has been cannibalized in order to allow the yet unproven and abysmally conceived REM system that has obliterated any hope for improved commuter and inter-city rail passenger transportation in the Montreal area. 2023/12/16. Ontario, Canada.

[@MrMASSEYJONES]

I never saw the end of the electrics, having moved to Calgary in 1983. You did a marvellous job with whatever was left of the operation.

[@GeeSizzzle]

Fantastic video! Thank you for uploading it. I grew up near the Ile Bigras station in the 80s and have fond memories of this train. I wonder if there are any of the old staff around from that Era. Would be so interesting to know things like how did their shifts work? Where did the staff typically live? (In MTL or Deux Montagne?) Who did the maintenance and where was it done. What were their quals and what was the training? What determined the type of locomotive used, or why sometimes they used no locomotive at all and only the drivable passenger cars? I suppose I'll never know these things!!

[@smwca123]

Pantograph change at

[@shawiniganterminal7061]

THANKS A LOT !!!

[@AlexThePatriot]

How many of these of boxcabs were restored, and still exist?

[@vivekshreeni7897]

I have heard these electrics had air whistles later upgraded to

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Did these have horns

[@grahamsawyer831]

I assume all this lot went straight to the scrapyard? shame.

[@pujithareddy1541]

😮?

[@weserman7522]

Such ashame montreal turn a historic eletric heavy rail line into a driverless cookie cutter metro lol