The Polar Bear Express - A Train Journey from Cochrane to Moosonee, Ontario, Canada!

[@lovelacetunes]

Thanks for “bringing us along.” Loved the Gardie soundtrack. Maybe my fave rail song of all time

[@paulgee8253]

My Dad took me on this trip about 55 years ago. They had a ragtime band. Saw moose. Ate Indian food. Was impressed by the giant horseflies.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

I feel a bit like I've been there now. Brilliant choice of music.

[@Sparkymckraken]

Awesome video made even better by the sound track!

[@nkp756]

Thanks for a great video! And playing the best Train song ever!! 🚂

[@rockalliance8815]

I’m also from Moosonee, we moved down South when I was young. It’s sad to see the tourism today, years ago there was so much to do up there. Glad you enjoyed your trip and thanks so much for the upload!😎

[@buffylouttit7785]

Hi I am from Moose Factory! Yes it's true, back in the 70s, the tourism was amazing! My Granny Agnes Louttit and her cousin Hattie Visitor (two sweet Gookums) were the Bannock ladies in the tiipii just outside around back of the Anglican Parrish Hall in Moose Factory. Those were the glory days of our two amazing communities. I can remember when my Grandpa would call over to Moosonee, to find out how many tourists were coming in on The Polar Bear Express. Many times the numbers were upwards of 800! Then he'd let the Bannock ladies know; they sure enjoyed selling their little delicious loaves to the tourists. I could go on, there's so much more to say!

[@rockalliance8815]

@@buffylouttit7785 wow!! talk about great memories!! Miss The good ole days😎

[@georgepetkovic440]

Id love to visit there, do you know of any cabins available to rent?

[@rockalliance8815]

@@georgepetkovic440I believe there’s a nice place up there now called RnR Lodging. I heard it was the former JBEC apartments converted to a log style hotel. Hope that helps 😎

[@leostephens1780]

Thank you!

[@AliAhmadi-hq9pj]

❤

[@guymorris6596]

I've visited some relatives on my birth father's side who live in Northern Ontario, in 1979 and 1983. Sadly I didn't get to ride this train on either trip.

[@michaelaspinall1]

Thank you for sharing. Great upload. Thinking of doing this trip thia summer.

[@jlai3861]

At 4:01, just drove there yesterday on the way to Otter rapids generation station, cool little train stop in the woods, had a pee at the back of the shed.

[@andreadawngilpin3054]

One of my friends and I discussed going on this train trip. I've only been to Moose Factory once (I was born there) and would like to visit the place.

[@buffylouttit7785]

Hello! I am from Moose Factory! Perhaps we're related, my Granny Agnes (Gilpin) Louttit and my Grampa Rev. Redfern Louttit. Granny is from Eastmain (Old Factory) 👋🏼😁

[@buffylouttit7785]

The train trip is fun, you should go!

[@HappynessSunshines]

Cool trip!

[@karendumke4087]

Thanks for sharing! We are planning to travel to Canada and do this train trip this year. Your video made the decision final!

[@christinab2703]

I love that! Have a great trip :)

[@shariday9849]

When we went up a pow wow was happening. Maybe if you time it right… Also, there were fossils everywhere. I picked up a handful of rocks beside the train and they were full of fossils. If you’re offered a tour in a school bus skip that. So boring. The polar bear habitat in Cochrane was magical. We could watch the bears swim under water through the glass. My son put his hand against the glass and the bear match it on the other side with his mighty paw. Wondrous.

[@shariday9849]

Oh, and the train stopped in the middle of nowhere. A country lady was waiting. She had a sturdy bucket with a rope tied to the handle. She stood on the bucket, climbed into the train, then pulled the bucket up behind her with the rope. All these decades later, I’m going to rig up a similar bucket to climb into my truck.

[@buffylouttit7785]

​@@shariday9849Hello I am from Moose Factory! I was raised there (I am Cree) in the 70s. During that time, those two communities were truly so special! The summer time tourist days from the Polar Bear Express were amazing. On the Moose Factory side, is local kids would gather fossils and sell them to tourists for dimes and sometimes quarters! Lol Did you buy bannock in a tiipii?

[@user-wn2iv7yh8r]

I was there before I seen a bear take a dump and anther Bear he was eating it it was steaming

[@AbitibiMac]

Great video!

[@buffylouttit7785]

@Christina B Hi I enjoyed you and your partner's video so much; I loved the accompanying song! Please tell me the artist and title. I am from Moose Factory, raised there in the 70s. You guys really must go back and visit MF Island; there are gems there to see, you'll be amazed all over again! It's museum style, the HBC staff house, the gun powder building, the forge building, another building which houses amazing artifacts! Cheers!

[@christinab2703]

Thankyou! It would be great to go back and visit MF Island one day. The song is "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" by Gordon Lightfoot

[@andrewmacaulay1585]

Thank you… this is where the ice road begins up the James bay coast to Attawapiskat?

[@johngallen4628]

Looks pretty gloomy to me. Lots of swamps and muskeg. Bugs in summer that would carry you away. No thanks.

[@D4kshar]

Thinking about doing this trip in April! When were you two up there?

[@christinab2703]

Awesome! We went in late April.

[@terrijomaybee3758]

The best time To come would be june! When the leaves and green all come Out, we also have tour guides for the water here 😊

[@buffylouttit7785]

@@terrijomaybee3758 TJ! Omigosh lol! I am a very good friend of your mom! In fact I call her my sister! Tell her I said hi; and your Granny Marion, my deceased mom's best friend when we lived there in the early 70s. Tell Granny I think of her a lot too ❤️🥰

[@CanAm1812]

When was this?!?!

[@balajialagarsamy3388]

Can we go with 2 year old kid?

[@powerofloveism]

Where did you stay in that Yurt ? I want to stay in a Yurt.

[@christinab2703]

It was on a small farm just south east of North Bay, I can't remember the name of it but I found it on air BnB.

[@thinker1056]

🙏💙🇨🇦⚔️😎🏄🤔🎯 thank you. Eh!.

[@tested123]

the music gets to be too much

[@christinab2703]

Fair enough

[@allandrake4426]

We use to have things like that.. and then western alienation happened