Here a video that was filmed by Paul Barnes of the last VIA Rail train to Barrie before tracks were removed in 1996. enjoy
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@BaltimoreAndOhioRR2 жыл бұрын
wow, great old footage! 📹📹
@TributetoCanada2 жыл бұрын
One of the best train videos I've seen - with added bonus of 90's nostalgia.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
Couldnt agree more
@stevebalmer1672Ай бұрын
Great historical video.
@MikeG427 ай бұрын
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.
@rollercoastercentral08086 ай бұрын
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
@masteristscalerailroadmodels2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Interesting to see how Canada was about the time when I was born and before I came here in 2006.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
Need to say canada had more railines than it has now. Hope the country bring back trains soon
@dougaustin26892 жыл бұрын
Great video. That side of Lake Simcoe really cut themselves off. Ok, GO is now at Barrie but that only goes south.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
Ya and barrie has a slow short line train that barely goes 5km/h. I wish mainline trains were still a thing DX
@Matthew-yb6ux2 жыл бұрын
I think VIA should still serve Barrie
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
I wont be striving to move out of this boring shit fest if via rail still went to barrie lol
@northlanderdude2 жыл бұрын
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.
@northlanderdude2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@JuanSanchezGuerra2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@johnpatterson42722 жыл бұрын
Great shot of the crank/swing style bridge, old-school technology which still has relevance in the 21st century. Great video.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
I believe there was a semaphores still being used on newmarket sub before tracks being removed in 96.
@johnpatterson42722 жыл бұрын
@@weserman95 It reminds me of the rotational crank system still in-use at several of the Trent-Severn locks.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
@@johnpatterson4272 this I have to see one day. Neat
@johnpatterson42722 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@hendizzle002 жыл бұрын
That bridge is in Orillia
@gplum7902 жыл бұрын
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?
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
Depends on the demand, people north of Toronto rather take cars and buses than trains
@johnburke13172 жыл бұрын
Very nice video
@dougaustin26892 жыл бұрын
I mean... By ripping up tracks, they've isolated themselves without a big investment.
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
And reducing trucks off highway 11 >_> 18 wheelers be scary
@PatFrenchLeafsFan12 жыл бұрын
Any railway footage shot in both Sault Ste Marie & Sudbury?
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
not that I am aware of!
@northlanderdude2 жыл бұрын
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.
@PatFrenchLeafsFan12 жыл бұрын
@@northlanderdude Well, do you have the CP crossings footage shot on Douglas St, Regent St & Martindale Rd from Sudbury?
@ibuy4unow2 жыл бұрын
Where did this line run from? Toronto to Barrie and back?
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
It traveled through newmarket than barrie than orillia before hitting up with bala sub at washago
@ibuy4unow2 жыл бұрын
@@weserman95 - Wow. The area sure could still use that. Thx for letting me know
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
@@ibuy4unow sadly those lines are gone beside Toronto to barrie. Quite sad they dont support orillia no more
@Trainsbigandsmall2 жыл бұрын
Whatever happened to Paul Barnes?
@weserman952 жыл бұрын
Last I heard which was 2020. He still alive and nearly 75 years old.