Super Rare!!!! | Last VIA Rail Canadian to Barrie, Ontario

Here a video that was filmed by Paul Barnes of the last VIA Rail train to Barrie before tracks were removed in 1996.
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[@BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

wow, great old footage! 📹📹

[@TributetoCanada]

One of the best train videos I've seen - with added bonus of 90's nostalgia.

[@weserman95]

Couldnt agree more

[@stevebalmer1672]

Great historical video.

[@MikeG42]

Good video. I remember riding the Canadian from Toronto to Sudbury Junction and back in the early 90's.Too bad the line through Barrie is gone.

[@rollercoastercentral0808]

Now that building is a historical site but next to it is the Allen dale waterfront station for go transit , the line might come back this year for the northland transit project

[@masteristscalerailroadmodels]

Great video. Interesting to see how Canada was about the time when I was born and before I came here in 2006.

[@weserman95]

Need to say canada had more railines than it has now. Hope the country bring back trains soon

[@dougaustin2689]

Great video. That side of Lake Simcoe really cut themselves off. Ok, GO is now at Barrie but that only goes south.

[@weserman95]

Ya and barrie has a slow short line train that barely goes 5km/h. I wish mainline trains were still a thing DX

[@Matthew-yb6ux]

I think VIA should still serve Barrie

[@weserman95]

I wont be striving to move out of this boring shit fest if via rail still went to barrie lol

[@northlanderdude]

VIA has implied explicitly that they have no desire in returning to Barrie. Even if the track and infrastructure was still there they wouldn't go back or through. People there wanting the Canadian can board at Toronto or Washago. There was whispered rumours of a flag stop in Newmarket on the Bala sub near Davis Dr being made but I haven't heard anything about it in a while.

[@northlanderdude]

@@weserman95 idk if I'd go as far as calling it a shit fest lol, boring shit hole yes... nothing festive about the place, I know... I was stuck living there for 3 years and HATED every minute of it.

[@weserman95]

@@northlanderdude there some good things to barrie. But in all, I rather live closer to toronto or a town with better transit service and jobs.

[@JuanSanchezGuerra]

@@northlanderdude It could and it should. Run up the GO Newmarket Sub, with stops in Newmarket and Barrie, then fix up roughly seven miles of the Barrie-Collingwood Municipal Railway to get to the connection with the CP MacTier Sub at Utopia, and then run north to Sudbury from there. Usage of the MacTier Sub from Utopia to Sudbury would also allow the Canadian to service the station in Downtown Sudbury, instead of the mobile home station 10km away. A quick backup move would then be needed to get back to the Bala Sub, but it would be worth it.

[@johnpatterson4272]

Great shot of the crank/swing style bridge, old-school technology which still has relevance in the 21st century. Great video.

[@weserman95]

I believe there was a semaphores still being used on newmarket sub before tracks being removed in 96.

[@johnpatterson4272]

@@weserman95 It reminds me of the rotational crank system still in-use at several of the Trent-Severn locks.

[@weserman95]

@@johnpatterson4272 this I have to see one day. Neat

[@johnpatterson4272]

@@weserman95 Check out "Trent-Severn Waterway Manual Lock Operation" on YT. You may also be interested in "The Big Chute Marine Railway" as well. Truly Canadian engineering at its best.

[@hendizzle00]

That bridge is in Orillia

[@gplum790]

Wow, I just moved from Barrie and I never knew the Canadian came through there. My father works on the GO Trains that operate in Barrie now. With the way the city has expanded, continuing Via Rail service from Toronto then further north is just smart. But, politics right?

[@weserman95]

Depends on the demand, people north of Toronto rather take cars and buses than trains

[@johnburke1317]

Very nice video

[@dougaustin2689]

I mean... By ripping up tracks, they've isolated themselves without a big investment.

[@weserman95]

And reducing trucks off highway 11 >_> 18 wheelers be scary

[@PatFrenchLeafsFan1]

Any railway footage shot in both Sault Ste Marie & Sudbury?

[@weserman95]

not that I am aware of!

[@northlanderdude]

VIA never served SSM, CP ceased passenger service between Sudbury and SSM long before VIA was created. There is lots of footage out there of VIA action in Sudbury.

[@PatFrenchLeafsFan1]

@@northlanderdude Well, do you have the CP crossings footage shot on Douglas St, Regent St & Martindale Rd from Sudbury?

[@ibuy4unow]

Where did this line run from? Toronto to Barrie and back?

[@weserman95]

It traveled through newmarket than barrie than orillia before hitting up with bala sub at washago

[@ibuy4unow]

@@weserman95 - Wow. The area sure could still use that. Thx for letting me know

[@weserman95]

@@ibuy4unow sadly those lines are gone beside Toronto to barrie. Quite sad they dont support orillia no more

[@Trainsbigandsmall]

Whatever happened to Paul Barnes?

[@weserman95]

Last I heard which was 2020. He still alive and nearly 75 years old.