Travels With John A Rare Ride On The CP Kettle Valley Railway, Mar/Apr 1984, Penticton, BC, Canada

This is Extremely Rare video that would only be available if you were a railfan, a Canadian Pacific Railway employee, and a cinematographer. Fortunately, John is a huge railfan and former railway employee and he has been taking videos of trains for a long time. For this video, John had taken the job out of Penticton, British Columbia during March and April 1984. The video takes us out and back, from and to Penticton, westward over the Kettle Valley Railway's Penticton Subdivision. The video is taken from the hack on the back (the caboose), both from the end of train and right behind the locomotives.
John recently had his collection of 8 mm Film (with sound) digitized by a professional processor. The results weren't as good as he had hoped. However, I (James, aka Skeena Pacific) am remastering the digitized videos and hope you find the results satisfactory.
Note: any music in this video (except as attributed) is being performed publicly and is unavoidably incidental to the video. Such public performance is the responsibility of the group or organisation making the presentation and they should be contacted with reference to copyright. Music Attribution(closing titles): Boston Tones - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons... video and audio material may not be reproduced in any form (except as an embedded video on any other website), without written permission.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

As a five year old, I rode over the kettle valley and columhia and western travelling between Vancouver and Nelson. I still remember parts of the trips at 72.

[@joesutherland225]

Very cool.old enough to have seen bits of this line in use.

[@imagreatbigman]

Hard to believe that in five more years, this line was shut down. And 11 years later the Kettle Valley Steam Railway would be in operation over part of this line. I know I wasn't around for this but I still recognize the landscape in some areas. Especially at Trout Creek and West Summerland.

[@VA7LFD]

Long live the KVR, it's workers, its families, its history and legends!

[@paulr7547]

That was very good. Sad to see it's gone.

[@jamiejmasters4818]

Gold, John, absolute gold!

[@southernPacificRR]

I remember those pipe trains as a kid living near Napa.

[@carius007]

Priceless!!! I’ll be watching this a few more times! Thank you 👍🏻

[@deltamodelrailroading7493]

Amazing footage John, can’t wait for more to come!

[@johnuhelski8613]

Fantastic Vid !! Love the KV and CPR !!

[@BradFalck-mn3pc]

You can see parts of the railroad where the coquihalla highway now sits......wild

[@Spuds01984]

Very cool John. Thanks for sharing

[@WCE906]

Thanks for watching

[@analogueandy8x10]

Great video!

[@alexlovelock4648]

I've been to Switzerland which is similar to BC with mountains and challenging terrain. They drill tunnels rights through them with highways and railways. Imagine if the KVR was still operating at the very least a regular passenger service like the Swiss have? If the KVR is ever used for rail again how similar would it be to Swiss rail lines? Interesting thought

[@patricklucas8801]

So this train would have been leaving Penticton bound for Merritt? Through Princeton ?

[@WCE906]

yes

[@drgw1982]

Fake

[@WCE906]

Id10t

[@2peaseinapod486]

No it's not lmfao