Traveliving - Vintage 1960's Canadian National Railways Passenger Service Film

[@coryzadorozniak4368]

in both 1974 & 1977 my mom & dad took me & my brother by train from Melville SK to Toronto Ont to see relatives…. those trips have survived in my mind to this day! The kiddie car, dining car, etc… so amazing for us kids.

[@Parkwaymania]

Fun film to watch! My dad worked as a brakeman, conductor, trainmaster and finally superintendent of transportation in Toronto in his 30 years with CN. I worked as a VIA Rail dining car waiter for two summers as a student working the Canadian from Toronto to Winnipeg (79-80). My dad took me around the Toronto yards as a kid and I must say railways and rail travel get in your blood! I just wish today's rail travel, well Via anyway, wasn't so expensive. It is such a great way to travel and see the country!

[@bobjohnson205]

So, your dad worked his way DOWN the ladder! lol ;)

[@jeremiahjeremiah1319]

I was hired in Mac Yard likely where your father worked. Just transfered East to Belleville over a year ago

[@samtrak1204]

Video took me back to the 60's when I was a young man filled with big dreams, ambition and so much hope. Thanks for posting.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Not a cell phone in sight, Just people enjoying the moment.

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

That looked like such a great time to be alive, lol.

[@oneastrails]

Hard to believe now my first trip on CN's The Ocean from Montreal to Bathurst NB was in 1965. I took it many many many more times over the years. Into the VIA years. Took it with the old heavyweight style cars like in this video, the stainless Budd cars, and the present Renaissance consist. I preferred the early days of VIA as they ran such a diverse array of equipment. Plus they still had bar cars, always a good party on the way to the Maritimes in the old days when they kept the bar car open pretty late. The last time I took one with a Park dome car bringing up the rear the bar closed at 10:30pm. I remember taking it one time when I was 18 and lining up at the bar car door for the second we crossed into Quebec on the way up to Montreal.

[@robertramsay5963]

Cool seeing the inside of the Skytop lounge car in action.

[@nskid]

Ah, they don't make 'em like that anymore, the trains or the promo films. Thanks for sharing it. Unlike other railways of the day, CN made an effort in the mid-60s to boost its passenger service: the trains were crowded and the service fine. I was a kid at the time and our family travelled often on the Ocean and Scotian between Halifax and Montreal. I remember well the thrill of sleeping in a lower berth, watching the track recede from the 7:20 Skyview observation lounge, and CN's legendary 3:17 slabs of prime rib.

[@YukariAkiyamaTanks]

When travel was something to remember.

[@aeyb701]

I was 4 in the summer of 67 when as a fam we moved from NS to Ontario. Travelled by the Ocean in adjoining bedrooms (fou r kids two parents). Dad took us to the skytop obs car and I was agape at the amount of light and glass. Dads still wore leather shoes even with shorts and on vacation then and I recall the little boxes you’d place them in at night and they’d be shined by morning. Coming into Montreal over the Victoria Jubilee Bridge I saw the bizarrely shaped outlines of pavilions at Expo 67 then in full swing. Dad sent our Buick Wildcat and Vauxhall or Sunbeam Imp via freight train. The time was permanently imprinted in my brain and so now of course those are the trains and that is the era of CN I’m most fond of.

[@donaldinho62]

The CN timetable visible at 10:37 is that of April 25, 1965 and was in effect until the end of October 1965.

[@marvwatkins7029]

A conductor who likes kids (or anyone) is a rarity indeed as has been since this film was made!

[@dougbrowning82]

This film is not from 1963. CN did not acquire the Skytops and Superdomes (called Sceneramics by CN) until 1964. In 1963, they were still running on the Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas. Also, CN's red, white, and black livery and noodle logo design were introduced in 1965. And, CN Telegraph merged with CP Telegraph, forming CNCP Telecommunications, in 1967. So, this film was made between 1965 and 1967.

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

Ah, I see. Yeah I had a feeling that this wasn't as early as my Grandpa told me it was.

[@davidlisowski5245]

I agree that the film is from around 1965. However, the logo and paint scheme here were introduced in 1961. The Skytops, Superdomes and other second-hand equipment went directly into this scheme in 1964 and never wore green, black and gold.

[@Greatdome99]

Skytops were only used on the Ocean, east of Montreal; domes only west of Edmonton.

[@dougbrowning82]

@@Greatdome99 Originally, the domes only operated west of Jasper, but later on they ran out of Winnipeg. They even had to lift the train sheds here to allow clearance.

[@MrNostalgiabuff]

🤔🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@Reading3412Studios]

Oh So this is Canada at its finest

[@jg-xx8oh]

Wow sure wish I could go back

[@tony8074]

My goodness they served food in the dining car. It’s disgraceful how that kind of cooking is not done anymore.

[@johnandersonjjr]

Handy the way everyone that works on that train sounds like they could get a job as a radio announcer or an actor.If rail travel went out of vogue (as unlikely as that’d be.

[@BNSFTrains10]

This video from the 60s would be mostly be 17 Years Before VIA Rail was created.

[@nathanielgenthner3272]

3:15 there are reproductions of those paper trains online that you can print for free

[@mikeytrains1]

Really? What's the site?

[@TheBurlingtonTransitFan]

@@mikeytrains1 rapido trains

[@livingroomset2084]

can CA and the US go back to this

[@rkpr9370]

Wizard Hoovy I sure hope so

[@darkbubblepenguin9865]

Wizard Hoovy unfortunately not :(

[@anhkietduongdo]

It might took a while to do that, but now the only answer is always just... *_no_*

[@NERRP2017]

Don’t ask me, do what the film says take a god damm train

[@NERRP2017]

Cool

[@canadianrushfan12]

I hope the pandemic comes to an end so I can ride the Ocean again.

[@rudolffabrie3233]

Nice to see, but given the luxury and the amount of staff on the train probably only affordable for the upper ten. No surprise all this didn't survive.

[@shnorth888]

It still survives under VIA Rail Canada but trans continental passenger rail services in Canada are a shadow of its former self.

[@dougbrowning82]

VIA is very affordable if you go Economy. And with the demise of Greyhound in the west, VIA and the airlines are the only way to go. However, there is no more dining car in Economy, that service is reserved for Sleeping Class now. Economy passengers have to make do with cafe and snack service in the Skyview car.

[@crazycrackinchick]

I think a train ride is still cheaper than a car :L

[@cheskasimbajon6286]

120

[@cheskasimbajon6286]

456

[@TheRobloxQasim]

Via train is stronger and old train is to weak

[@TheBurlingtonTransitFan]

These older ones were so cool, the VIA we have today is just plain boring...

[@trainrover]

Snow phobic Can o' duhhhh..oh well.

[@maureennichols7509]

ribbet

[@trainrover]

_Canadienne typique.. .. . ._