I came here many times with my dad when I was younger. I once saw a train so long, it looped itself through both tunnels, and could be seen in 4 different places at the same time.

I live on the west coast of Canada and they did a great job with this one. Only thing missing is dirt and grime on the train and graffiti on nearly every rail car.

@zacharymartens5773

9 жыл бұрын

Live by a train track + station and so true

@Smoovious

9 жыл бұрын

theslimeylimey unfortunately, these engines are also missing the engine sounds (or, more specifically, the generator/fan sounds) when dynamic braking is active. :( Also, when going down that grade? Never accelerate under power... you're so heavy, and the grade is steep, so just let your consist weight do that for you... eco-driving FTW... :)

@papabless5117

9 жыл бұрын

I'm doing a backpacking tour in the Rockies and I'm in lake Louise right now... This is probably one of the most accurate representations of the western rookies and the spiral tunnels

@SubAverageAmerican

9 жыл бұрын

Same thing with Union or Southern Pacific in the states as well.

@KyleFrench24FNA4f87v8

9 жыл бұрын

theslimeylimey I'm in Sk and there is a lot of graffiti on the rail cars, and I seen some really cool designs

Oh, and to address another question you asked, about knowing when your tail end has passed a speed board... When your head end passes the speed board, you start a counter in the cab (built-in)... that counter shows # of feet... and your paperwork will show how long your train is in feet... (give or take 1% depending on if you're running bunched or slack... with rear DPU's, you're probably bunched... no DPU's? you're slacked up-grade, and probably bunched down-grade... unless you're stretch-braking)... when that counter reaches your train length, your tail has passed the board.

I find this rather entertaining considering that trains of this size and sometimes even larger are very common. I've seen trains with a total of six engines, with two in front, two in the middle and two at the back. You get stuck at a rail crossing with one of those going by, you can effectively turn off the vehicle and have a short nap.

@residentevil742

9 жыл бұрын

SilentShadows87 I've seen video of a Seaboard Coast Line train that had 197 cars it was crazy.

@highlandwinterwolf8589

9 жыл бұрын

ResidentEvil742 There is one on here somewhere about Conrail's short-lived 300 car monster coal train

@EdmontonRails

9 жыл бұрын

SilentShadows87 I watched a CP crew assemble an oil train, it took 2 hours and most of the time they blocked the crossing

@sqrlzxbigxnut2018

4 жыл бұрын

@@residentevil742 197 isnt anything. I work for the railroad here in the midwest. The Union Pacific runs 300 car trains all the time. 17000-18000 feet.

@residentevil742

4 жыл бұрын

@@sqrlzxbigxnut2018 I don't doubt it I've seen videos of huge BNSF and UP container trains on here.

Before they built the Spiral Tunnels there was a massive 6% grade there. They tunneled into the mountains and made the two spirals to level out the gradient there. I've been to the actual place. It's very, very cool seeing the train go in and then spiral up on top of itself.

@mikejonasson6013

7 жыл бұрын

Don't want to nitpick, but it was a 4.4 % grade, a huge difference than 6%

Freight trains in North America are usually very long. Since I'm used to them, your reactions to the trains length was pretty funny! :)

@carlfildes2946

6 жыл бұрын

Poop

@MARINECORPS61992113

5 жыл бұрын

I keep forgetting he's not from north America lol

@xeldinn86

5 жыл бұрын

How do you forget that when he has a British Accent?

13:30 its called a slide detector fence, that will detect when a slide comes down and obstructs the tracts, and then broadcasts on the radio that the slide fence is tripped

"Should we have stopped before that? Or are we okay to block that?" If only CP and CN actually asked these questions...

@textiles9562

4 жыл бұрын

David Salmon lol and BNSF, I’ve seen so many BNSF trains in Vancouver that just obstruct busy freeway crossings and don’t care in the slightest

@Jericho398

4 жыл бұрын

And Union Pacific in Spokane Vally, WA.

@codyg7936

3 жыл бұрын

RR was there first 🤷🏻‍♂️ they built the roads across the tracks not the other way around

@PersonmadudeRailwayProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Then they proceed to go back and forth, for switching.

Your dynamic brake is your first brake you use. If it is still not slowing down you use your train brake which is the red handle. If you go to quick into your dynamic brake on a real train you can actually kick a car out. By the way we know where our rear is because we have a distance counter on the locomotive screen and our dispatcher bulletins tell us how long and heavy our train is. By the way a speed restriction starts at the milepost as soon as the head end reaches where the restriction starts. If you wait until your rear hits the restrictions you will be fired haha. I'm a railroad conductor by the way.

@DenverInternationalHorse

7 жыл бұрын

Drew Harman you didn't need to tell me that you drove trains I guessed you did because of how much you know.

6 жыл бұрын

So even when going from 20mph to 35?

@TprMitchell

6 жыл бұрын

You should say "by the way" more haha

I laughed when you talked about how long the train was. That is about average if not slightly below average for a North American freight train. Everything over here is so spread out that just about everything is shipped by train as its by far the most efficient way of moving it.

Canada and U.S. are notoriously known for their mile long Freight trains

@TackleTheDog

4 жыл бұрын

sccrdude22 we like our long trains xD

@acursedimage8350

4 жыл бұрын

Tackle indeed we do

8:58 The line is a heater strip for de-icing the windows.

@moatif7819

7 жыл бұрын

Semni Istiqlal

@asArsenic

7 жыл бұрын

Aatef Mohammed Me!

@carlwelch1465

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is !

@Manatee693

3 жыл бұрын

I never knew ES44ACs actually had heater strips on the cab windows.

I can’t be the only one watching this in quarantine.

English people don't know how long North American trains are.

@barrygerbracht5077

7 жыл бұрын

Or how long north america is. Comes from living on a tiny island you can drive across in well under a day. Canada is 76x bigger than England.

@Tk-re6wx

7 жыл бұрын

It's real funny for English people to assume everything about North American railroading.

@michaelarmstrong5024

7 жыл бұрын

ive waited 2.5 hours at one is Saskatchewan double train

@mercurybullet6043

7 жыл бұрын

North Americans don't realise how big trains can really get either.Search for world record train and you will see what long trains really look like.

@sarkybugga3301

7 жыл бұрын

I'm English , and I know how long North American trains can be .

I've driven through that area (Kicking Horse Pass) ans it looks really accurate! I applaud your enthusiasm for the spiral tunnels. In Canadian history, it plays a very integral part in connecting western Canada to the rest of the country. There is a viewpoint of the lower spiral tunnel that is very popular with tourists and I was lucky enough to be there and to imagine what the construction crews had to do to build them. Amazing place. Thanks for featuring this route.

From Canada (Alberta) know the area well....that is how she looks!...Beautiful...If you get a chance get over and see the Spiral Tunnels near Field BC. Very very impressive!

@hurststein2910

8 жыл бұрын

+casualtrucker WHAT PART OF Alberta R U FROM

@chriswright7290

7 жыл бұрын

ROGUE WENDIGO69 I'm from flat Saskatchewan

@liamcarscadden9320

5 жыл бұрын

It looks nothing like this in Ontario

Squirrel, I live in Alberta, Canada and I can tell you that this video literally resembles the tracks that go through the Rockies! It's beautiful, isn't it?

thumbs up for CANADA

@sebastianhaumering1050

8 жыл бұрын

Eh

@shawn8807

7 жыл бұрын

+Sebastian Haumering we dont say that

@johnnypenso9574

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we do.

@Theworkingtorontoman

5 жыл бұрын

I do, eh@@shawn8807

@casual_time_machine6536

5 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for Alaska

I love the way you get excited over the size of this train. Short freight trains are the oddity in this country.

8:13 WESTERN canada looks like that (BC and Alberta). I heard a Saskatchewan joke about s farmer’s dog running away, and they saw it running away for 3 days because its so flat. Eh you know what, ima just go through the vid and explain canada to you... In western Canada like all of BC and Southwestern Alberta is mostly mountainous. The mountains yes are very caked in snow. We ski on them with about 2 meters of a snow pack. The little shed you drove through at 13:46 is an avalanche shed, so that if it avalanches in that spot, it’ll land on the shed and protect the tracks. Normally (from what ive seen) the trains here do drive with their lights on. The spiral tunnel is to climb up without going straight at too steep of a gradient. Makes it easier on the train. Going through that tunnel, you see it very often in NA because we have VERY long trains. Over a mile long some of them are. The cars at the front of Bob’s train was grain cars. Grain cars, oil tankers, and cargo liners (i think thats what they’re called) The dynamic brake uses the engine to slow the train. Its almost like a jake brake in a truck

Straight to notch 3 “wow this picks up quick!” 😂😂 you sure just got a 40 days off for throttle swiping

Great video! I'm from Canada and see those trains everyday!!

This is one of my favorite videos, Squirrel. Great job and fantastic scenery.

These Canadian Pacific trains are my childhood. We used to spend the Victoria Day long weekend and two weeks in the summer in Sicamous, BC, at Shuswap Lake. About a block away from our house there were train tracks and we'd see 8 or 10 of these long trains go through a day. I absolutely loved it, they are great memories that always put a smile on my face whenever I think about those days and I smiled through this entire video!

I'm a bit late, but at 21:42 you ask the question about engine and load limits, well I saw one of those trains in a valley in Canada, and it had 3 additional locomotives pushing the load in the middle, the end and pulling the load. This train took 20 minutes just to pass one point [where I was sitting]

17:30 that's the famous spiral tunnels. And one of Canada's greatest builds.

I've never seen such loops through the mountain, and to see the back of your own train! So cool!

I enjoyed how philosophical you got about the engineering of train line construction. When you ponder a subject Paul, it makes us all think about it. Cheers, Jibba

He didnt use his actual brakes he just used the dynamic

I watched this video to take a break from world news, was very relaxing, thank you!

I've spent lots of time in yoho around the spiral tunnels and I can't believe how accurate this game captures the scenery! Very well mapped!!

The 2-Volume definitive book on the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway were written in the early 1970's by famous Canadian Historian Pierre Berton, titled "The National Dream" & "The Last Spike", they were bestsellers and were adapted into a 10-part (each 1 hour long) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV Special which was shown nationally many times, it was an excellent production. There was a companion and very large photo-book by Berton titled "The Great Railway".

they did a great job on this map pack

The Canadian Pacific has the spiral tunnels as one of the most famous engineering feats in history. The Spiral Tunnels The old and the new line Lower portal of "Number Two" tunnel, Spiral Tunnels, Field, British Columbia. The locomotives are passing under the train they are pulling. The Big Hill "temporary" line was to remain the main line for twenty-five years, until the famous Spiral Tunnels were opened on September 1, 1909. The improvement project was started in 1906, under the supervision of John Edward Schwitzer, the senior engineer of CPR’s western lines. The first proposal had been to extend the length of the climb, and thus reduce the gradient, by bypassing the town of Field at a higher level, on the south side of the Kicking Horse river valley. This idea had quickly been abandoned because of the severe risk of avalanches and landslips on the valley side. Also under consideration was the extension of the route in a loop northwards, using both sides of the valley of the Yoho river to increase the distance, but again the valley sides were found to be prone to avalanches. It was the experience of severe disruption and delay caused by avalanches on other parts of the line (such as at the Rogers Pass station, which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1899) that persuaded Schwitzer that the expensive solution of digging spiral tunnels was the only practical way forward. The route decided upon called for two tunnels driven in three-quarter circles into the valley walls. The higher tunnel, "number one," was about one thousand yards in length and ran under Cathedral Mountain, to the south of the original track. When the new line emerged from this tunnel it had doubled back, running beneath itself and 50 feet (15 m) lower. It then descended the valley side in almost the opposite direction to its previous course before crossing the Kicking Horse River and entering Mount Ogden to the north. This lower tunnel, "number two," was a few yards shorter than "number one" and the descent was again about fifty feet. From the exit of this tunnel the line continued down the valley in the original direction, towards Field. The constructions and extra track would effectively double the length of the climb and reduce the ruling gradient to 2.2%. The new distance between Field and Wapta Lake, where the track levels out, is 11 1⁄2 miles (18.5 km). The contract was awarded to the Vancouver engineering firm of MacDonnell, Gzowski and Company and work started in 1907. The labor force amounted to about a thousand and the cost was about 1.5 million Canadian dollars. Even after the opening of the spiral tunnels, Field Hill remained a significant challenge and it was necessary to retain the powerful locomotives at Field locomotive depot

@Frenzy_____

8 жыл бұрын

Nice copy n paste m8 ;)

@drewdisch4022

5 жыл бұрын

Copy and paste much?

Hi squirrel! I worked with Maintenance of Way in the area you covered in this sim. I chuckled with enjoyment listening to you discover this piece of track. Sorry if I'm repeating other comments but prior to the building of the spiral tunnels (1909) this climb was called the Big Hill. You actually saw a remnant of the old 4.4 percent grade when you commented about the old school iron bridge which was an old rail bridge. The old line actually had 3 safety switches with uphill grades to prevent runaway trains. The scenery is actually quite accurate. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

Great episode! Hope to see more of these spectacular scenery and ultra long trains.

Canada is an awesome country and the train. Engineers are extremely lucky to see all of Canada wilderness

@RickyGMedia_TX

2 жыл бұрын

*are

@minidriversouthsweden5137

2 жыл бұрын

@@RickyGMedia_TX corrected thanks for letting me know. No one is perfect we all do mistakes here and there.

An Engineer of Canadian Pacific waved at me once while driving by me.

I was actually in Banff this July, while I was traveling around the Pacific Northwest, and I went Whitewater Rafting down the Kicking Horse River, and I encountered several CP trains. Throughout my journey, I came across UP, BNSF, CN, and CP. And, my dad and I went to see the Kicking Horse Pass. Also, Squirrel, I want to thank you for showing me this.

Ive driven alongside that track. Amazing views when you get up to the pass.

There is totally a bear at the right at about 26:36 :D

@yycxcars4335

9 жыл бұрын

Yep 😀

@user-jt7eb4ut8b

6 жыл бұрын

Allan003 ttt

@daniilkarmadonov8191

6 жыл бұрын

yepp

@steelrails1153

3 жыл бұрын

There are about 20,000 Grizzly Bears and 200,000 Black Bears in British Columbia and Alberta Provinces, Canada, where this video takes place. A person gets killed only about once every 5 - 10 years by one.

Just a heads up the engine lights have to be on all the time as well as the ditchlights (the 2 lights along the bottom) in North America. And the railroads I know all have to blow the horn heading into the tunnel (Long blast, long blast, short blast, & long) the same as at a level crossing, and the bell rings as the first engine passes though.

I came down this route in April on the Rocky Mountaineer, when you said "It HAS to level off in the spiral tunnels." I laughed a bit.

This one is so far my most favorite trim vid you have made so I thank u

Every train my country(Canada) is a monster! 140-160 cars or more

@judgedredd8657

8 жыл бұрын

+Trains Big and Small unless in winter, they shorten trains due to the cold

If only they modeled Brave Dave on one of the Intermodal cars. (Reference to his freight hop)

This double loop was built to replace a series of switchbacks and locomotive stops through the pass. Trains would often have to double or even triple to get over the pass, and there'd been several accidents over the years before CP finally built the two spiral tunnels. This CP container train is probably bound for the Vanterm container port in Vancouver proper.

That “shimmering Lake” at the top of the climb is actually situated right on the continental divide of North America. The rivers running out of the lake on the East and West shores are moving away from each other. I drive that highway every year when I travel to B.C. from Alberta. Seen the spiral tunnels many times. Great video. Not having mountains where I live now (Originally from B.C.) makes me a little homesick. Ok, a LOT homesick.

canada is not like that everywaer but it sure is in B.C

@stonezone_529

8 жыл бұрын

Around cape Breton it is like this too

@CDNSpartan

7 жыл бұрын

Matthew Lawton The mountain area of Alberta is like this as well.

I live in Canada I there is a lot of farming land followed by some city skape my cousin has a farm I go there some me times for birthday partys and stuff like that

I have been visiting that area 4 times, and it looks very natural, both the train and the scenery.

About 200yrs ago, when my dad was an old man, my uncle was posted to Canada for some reason. I don’t mean, actually posted, like in an envelope or a box, I think he was in some kind of army or other. Point I’m skirting around is whilst travelling somewhere with his fellow soldiery in Kanuckistan, they came to a level crossing which had a giant freight like this passing through. Story is the CO told them to pitch camp, and that they’d be stopping where they were for the night. Not worth waiting for two weeks for the train to pass...

Are you gonna do more Canadian Mountain Passes Scenarios?

that looks a lot like the CN line along the British Columbian fraser river. A few shots looks like the trans-Canada hwy across the river.

@yorklovesrush

8 жыл бұрын

It does look very similar to near Hope (I'm from Chilliwack, btw). This track though runs between Field and Banff as I could tell by the signs. BC does has interesting a scenic routes all around.

@thecanadianeh1438

8 жыл бұрын

+yorklovesrush huh i'm from Agassiz lol

@yorklovesrush

8 жыл бұрын

+david read awesome! My dad works just outside of Agassiz haha

@totheden

8 жыл бұрын

It is the CP line on the Lagan subdivision between Field and Calgary. I am a Locomotive Engineer and work just east of here

Very nice video! Excellent scenery in this scenario.

Its cool seeing your reaction to the spiral tunnels. Ive seen them so many times in person. Very cool.

10:33 I think that means that you left Field, BC

Squirrel here in canada our passenger trains ae under VIA rail CN or CP is feraight

@judgedredd8657

8 жыл бұрын

+FunsterProductions via mostly uses CN trackage for the transcontinental route

A wonderful part of our country, Wapta Lake is at the summit (5200 feet ASL), I have a couple of passenger and freight consists proper videos, pure sound. Spectacular scenery. Been traveling it for 36 years, never tire of it.

Man, i love when you do scenarios that I can see go past my house. Plz do more like this!

Cutting bits out of the journey? I'm disappointed Paul! But guess it makes sense or the video would be far too long

is this scenario available for train sim 16

@KUBUTECH911

8 жыл бұрын

Yes - It is.

I'm Canadian myself live in edmonton alberta, I found it amusing with how you reacted to the sheer size of this freight train, but i can well imagine you have a few far sized freight trains like that in the UK. Believe it or not we have had bigger payload trains travel that route before, 200+ fully loaded grain cars being pulled by 4 massive locomotives through the mountains in the middle of winter.

nice video Paul hope to see more of these long trains In the future videos

Oh we've got rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and... water!

@dorisojeda6987

9 жыл бұрын

Forgot mountains...

@superskiier50

9 жыл бұрын

Doris Ojeda and moose! and dont forget beaver! yes, we canadians have a lot of beaver!

@CDNSpartan

9 жыл бұрын

We have West Edmonton Mall. The largest mall in North America

@civsam_6954

5 жыл бұрын

What?

@DancingWithChickens

4 жыл бұрын

Still what we've got's GLORIOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS

i have seen longer trains they are 5km long

I live in WA and we have massive coal and oil trains that come through several times a day heading up to Canada. Those trains can be almost 2 miles long. I've see 7 locomotives on one. Very awesome

Wow, i was there in this summer, and saw that train road on the sides for the roads and lakes! Awesome!

So this game is. Accelerate and brake. Yawn.

@philipcooper8297

7 жыл бұрын

Quite like the Nascar, except that braking part.

@xxCruizy_train__xxdash

6 жыл бұрын

And create

@xxCruizy_train__xxdash

6 жыл бұрын

Trains

@MorzenMebs

5 жыл бұрын

@@philipcooper8297 Nascar has braking

@skellybones7557

5 жыл бұрын

That is basically our job yup, although as a conductor trainee that's basically what I know atm

That was a bizarrely entertaining 40 minutes. Thanks buddy.

I worked on the Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger train a few years ago. The only passenger train that passes through the Spiral Tunnels, an amazing Swiss engineering feat if I remember correctly. We usually got priority to pass freights in the sidings but sometimes we could be waiting for over an hour to have multiple freights pass by. The scenary from Vancouver, BC to Lake Louise/Banff (Alberta) was absolutely amazing and people would travel from all around the world to experience this. Unfortunately you can not see Lake Louise from the tracks but there is a multitude of turquoise lakes and rivers throughout the journey in The Rockies. Fun fact: they filmed Dr. Zhivago at a retired station/platform just outside Banff which is now a restaurant. *Field is a small town on the way to Banff thru The Rockies.

I worked on the running trains for CPR and it;s too bad that you couldn't have started from Revelstoke to field the rogers pass and the pushers would be awesome to see not to mention Stoney Mountain and the Canaught Tunnel, it would be a great trip you would love, they did a great job with Field spent many a night and days in that old bunkhouse

Thank you Paul! I requested this on SNT and you said you would think about it, and so you did! I live not to close to those rails!

I travelled this Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) route many times in the 1970's when the CPR still ran a passenger train over it, then the Gov't agency Via Rail did it for about 10 years in the 1980's, Via Rail still operates on the Canadian National Railway (CNR) line 150 miles north through the Yellowhead Pass. I also lived for 20 years in this whole region, and this computer program is extremely accurate, I know all the mountain peaks and even the shapes of the mountains were fairly accurate on the program, except at the very, very end, where the high and steep Mt Temple was missed on the right. The CPR crosses 2 major passes in the Canadian Rockies, this one, the Kicking Horse Pass, climbs 3000 feet in 50 miles eastward from the town of Golden BC to Wapta Lake (the lake at 27:30, this program starts halfway at the village of Field BC) and the Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Range of the adjacent Columbia River Mountains which climbs west from Golden to the Connaught and McDonald tunnels under the pass, a climb of about 1500 feet, the old track to the top of Rogers Pass climbed 500 more feet through (snow) "avalanche alley". From Rogers Pass the track then descends 2500 feet (3000 feet from the top of the old track) to the town of Revelstoke in about 50 miles. After crossing the British Columbia interior plateau through deep and arid valleys, both the CPR and the CNR negotiate the Fraser and Thompson River Canyons for 100 miles on the east side of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, this range is crossed by the Great Northern Railway a hundred miles south in Washington State USA by the difficult Stevens Pass, and the old BC Railway followed a tough route near Whistler Ski Resort. There are lots of real railway, travel and tourism videos of these regions on YT, all of this video takes place in Banff and Yoho National Parks, the Canadian Glacier National Park is around the Rogers Pass, and huge Jasper National Park is around the Yellowhead Pass. If you have money, the daylight luxury tourist train "Rocky Mountaineer" goes between Vancouver and Banff and Vancouver and Jasper on these routes every day all summer long, prior to Co-Vid 19.

Oh, this is awesome! I finally get to see some Canadian scenery in a train game, if on the west coast. I'm from the East so I would have enjoyed something of a Via Rail or similar through Montreal, Ottawa, & Toronto line. I also believe that those long trains pass through Ottawa every 8 am, or around then, (probably changed by now) with that many train cars behind carrying goodies. Thanks for the video! Love the scenery also.

+Squirrel Canadian Pacific runs through my town in Minnesota, I have seen trains as long if not longer than that, with 5 engines placed throughout, always mixed cargo. Containers, cars, grain, oil, propane, a little bit of everything. I have also seen those trains go 40 - 50mph in parts

12,000 tons is a normal consist in North America. I read a comment thread on another video a week ago where a British guy was dogging American railroads because they’re “50 years behind British railroads” simply because British rail is all electric. But a guy pointed out to him that the consist in that video had 4 locos on it which are generating around 16.7 megawatts of power to move that tonnage and that’s just one train, not to mention the train 30 minutes behind him and in front of him and so on. Could you imagine the strain on the power grid to electrify the whole US rail network? Also not to mention the extra infrastructure to install to make that happen.

This is one of your best videos!

I've just seen this video now. Amazing video. The spiral tunnels near Field are amazing, and less than an hour from my front door. The scenery at lake Louise is great as well. I hope you have the opportunity to visit Western Canada one day.

That fence is a rock slide detection system if I recall, so if a wire breaks on the fence it trips the signals I think, and our locos have the lights on all the time, day and night. the longest train I've seen had 5 diesels in the front and took 45 minutes to pass the crossing

Best video I've seen so far squirrel. You should do more North American freight scenarios, i had a blast watching.

Nice, I live not far from there about an hour or so's drive from Lake Louise, cool to see the area done up in a game. 13:47, that's called a snowshed, they're very common on mountain roads and railways, they allow avalanches to pass over top instead of burying the right of way. Also, freight trains of that length are pretty typical in North America.

Yep, full brightness during the day. It adds a lot of visibility.

On the Canadian prairies trains are 150-225 cars long. Seen them come through with up to 6 power units! Amazing to see!

When I was about 10 or so, the family made a run all around the southern interior of BC. There's a pull-off the Trans-Canada Highway in the pass where you can watch the trains go through the loops. I was spell-bound. "Dad, you mean that train down there, is the same train that's coming out there?" Most amazing thing ever.

Hey Paul, the white line you were referring to in the cab is like a heater bar for the windows to keep them clear in the winter time. Its similar to the round ones that are on ship wheelhouses

The sound of that train is extremely accurate i work right behind a rail and cp trains exactly like this one pass daily

Been on The Rocky Mountaineer from Calgary to Vancouver over two days. These freight trains take forever to pass. It's so hard to imagine how long they are. Slow going but the scenery is stunning.

Amazing this is just like the stuff we se here in canada, mixed containers on cp trains

I live in Canada and my house is close to the train tracks used by CP Rail.

i've driven through here many times and this looks pretty accurate

That grain train was probably the grain runner that runs from some grain elevator in Saskatchewan to the coast in BC to be shipped to international markets (just an assumption). Also a lot of CP trains can get up to 2 km+ long.

Pretty darn accurate depiction of Canada. I only live a few hours from the spiral tunnels.

It is so awesome I was actually camping once at the spiral tunnels or kicking horse pass I love trains and when you hear the brakes at night on the trains... Wow amazing

Cool to see this run, I actually live a few stops further in Cochrane. Where you stopped in Lake Louise, that's actually a nice restaurant :)

Canada is so beautiful!!! Glad i live here

That was a blast. From my personal experience of driving through the rocky mountains on my way home to Nova Scotia from British Columbia, the game did not do the awe inspiring beauty of the mountains justice. Not all of Canada is like that, but, apart from the big cities, it is all amazing. Come see it and drive it for yourself. Better yet, take the train. :)

Great video Squirrel! I would safe it's official, the course was maintained and you're off and running! #YOTS

Squirrel, I'm from that area of Canada and I see those trains all the time, so I thought this was awesome! :)

Have seen trains coming down the moutain through the tunnels when i visited Canada some years ago absolutely amazing those trains are about half a mile long and have seeone come out of the bottom tunnel whilst the rear end still going in the top one. there is a viewing area at the bottom with information notice