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The true usherer-ins of a generation indeed. Great videography and editing. Enjoyed every second

I'm taking The Canadian from Toronto to Edmonton in sleeper class in 6 days...can't wait! I could never justify wasting money on prestige though

I was researching Prestige class for our upcoming trip and found your entry. I rarely comment on videos but must tell you how much I enjoyed your adventure. Nice camera work, no obnoxious narration, really, really nice music. Kudos to you for providing relaxing entertainment.

awesome flying. respect to these pilots and future generation to come 👏👏

Very good video Daniel! Don’t listen to those nuts. The music choices were a nice touch. All they had to do was turn it down. Was that so hard? We will be going on this train soon.

Thanks you so much for this. Nicely done visuals and music. I’m taking my daughter from Vancouver to Halifax with 3 day stops in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. Hope we make it all the way by train but I know that there may be problems along the way. You folks have me pumped for this trip now which doesn’t start till last week of April 2025. Thanks again for a lovely presentation.

That’s looks like a BIG otter. Thanks for sharing your trip!

I agree with The previous person i/e the music, but I'm ignoring that & am engrossed by the beaut snowfield landscapes. We, in SA, have never seen such beauty!! Also the written footnotes stay on screen long (& large) enough 4 a slow reader 2 manage.

What a beautiful vidio!!! Most enjoyable!! @ least 1 sees the scenery & everything's not centred on food & drink!!! Thank a lot!!!

A great video! Thank you!

You're absolutely welcome, Dan Hadley. And I wish to thank you for showing those fantastic railroad shots you took for Pentrex. I'm a tremendous fan of your work. I love Pentrex's railroad videos. I have quite a collection of those programs on DVD, especially some that you videographed. For example, I have "Across Marias Pass", "The Stormy: Southern Pacific's Lordsburg District", "Santa Fe's Mojave Mainline", "Winter Along the Upper Mississippi", "Montana Rail Link", "Kansas City Southern", "Santa Fe's New Mexico Mainline Volumes 1-2", "Santa Fe's Arizona Mainline", "Street Running" and "Union Pacific's Clinchfield Challenge".

Hancock (HO Tower) closed in September 2007 and was the final tower to close on the line as far as I know.

20:42 barred antshrike should be

Love the music 🎻🎷 🎹

Thanks for posting... every video that anybody posts on YT is giving this train much needed and deserved publicity! I'm glad, look like you folks had a wonderful trip... pretty hard not to do though on that train 😂

Unfortunately, the music is a distraction.

see you took the prestige class juding by the room. you do need to talk, more important than the music, show us the menus, tell us what you ordered. some insight into what we are looking at. please do some talking. your photography is good. thanks.

Glad you enjoyed. If you haven't been to Canopy Camp I'd strongly suggest you go.

Lovely.

I love this, I remember a train that passed through the OUACHITA NATIONAL forest in Mena ARKANSAS, I think it was called the # 9, it was very old probably a steam engine, the old people would ride it just to hear the whistle blow, my son inlaw's grand mother was from Salisaw , Arkansas close to Mena, mena had a resort "Queen Willamina" i think this train passed through here, i remember the whistle, and the bell chiming on it, very old early 1900's, it traveled a scenic route.

Music too loud. You need to replace music with an audio narration. Not worth watching even the first five minutes!

This is a very impressive video, about a very impressive videographer. Nicely done, Dan! I'm glad I was able to play a small part in the success of the 2765 video. Oh...one more thing... *you're welcome!*

Fits perfectly with the CSX EK sub

Your work with Pentrex (and now being shown on C Vision) has been an definite inspiration to me when it comes to railfanning with video. I still need to work with editing, but as far as looking for the right angles and positions has largely been from watching your footage in all those shows.

Pentrex footage

I'm sorry, what happens when the towers are replaced? How are the signal and switches controlled then?

it’s mexico no money no care for old relics

Ex excellent music and video ! I remember the L&N in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast. 😢 😢😢. Shed a tear for those great Fallen Flags : Atlantic Coast Line , Seaboard Air Line , and our great L&N.

In 1968 I got a job as fifth cook in the diner on The Canadian. The train was operated by Canadian Pacific and used its own line instead of the Canadian National line which VIA now uses. Part of the CP line passes along the scenic and rocky north shore of Lake Superior and is far more interesting than the CN which goes through northern Ontario. There's not much to see on this line except trees and a few lakes.

My favorite youtube video

The music ruined it for me. I'd rather have some narration describing the places visited.

Wow! I remember seeing this at Eastrail in NJ back around 2000. It’s even better than I remember it. Thanks for sharing it here.

Fabulous. (I followed on Bing Map)

Nicely done! Looking forward to seeing part 2.

Very Nice Layout !

Very nice. I'd like to go southwest as a native Califorian that moved years ago. No one discusses doing southwest. PS I'll be running ALCO PAs

Nice layout & video, but your narration is difficult to hear over the engines.

Love the music you used....Pat Metheny Group. Great choice.

CNW had a manual interlocking about every 10 miles on average from Chicago to Clinton, Iowa. The first manual tower after leaving CPT (westbound) was Western Ave. (controlled by the Milwaukee Road) then Kedzie Ave. Tower. Next tower was JN Tower, then HM Tower. CNW used abbreviated names, I believe, from the days of telegraphy when that was how dispatchers communicated with the towers down the line. A lot easier to tap out two letters instead of a full name like Elmhurst, or West Chicago. By the time I hired out in 1974 nearly ALL those old towers were gone, only a distant memory, with the advent of CTC and other more modern dispatching and control mechanisms.

I was lucky to visit the CNW's Lake St. Tower many years ago when I was working a hostling job at the Chicago Passenger Terminal (CPT) at Madison St. The year escapes me but it was before the UP/CNW merger n 1995. Lake St. tower had the old "pistol grips" to throw switches on the plant. There were 16 tracks in the CPT, a fuel pocket, and 3 stub tracks just east of Lake St. Tower called the mail pocket tracks. They used to store and sometimes fuel engines there. There were about 4 to 6 leads that the 16 tracks merged into: 3 for the Geneva Sub. and 2 or 3 for the Harvard Sub. The Harvard Sub. divided at Clybourn Jct. about 2 miles distant from Lake St. interlocking, with Kenosha Sub. heading north and Harvard Sub heading northwest. If the interlocking machine at Lake St. is still in use, it is probably THE oldest manual interlocking still in use in the U.S. and probably one of the most complicated. Every time it snowed maintainers would go out, turn on the gas, and light the burners to keep the switches from freezing up and it looked like a scene from Dante's Inferno!

Very cool operations and a beautiful layout 🤠

At Santa fe Mission tower back in the early 1990s at the beginning of metrolink, there were 5 railroads the operators controlled. Santa Fe, Southen pacific, Union pacific Amtrak, and Metrolink. Not one second of quiet, 24/7 365. Absolute mayhem. Kudos to the operators who had hundreds of levers switches and signals at their command. 5 different dispatchers, 5 different rule books, 5 different radios to monitor. How they even had a clue what they were doing was astounding. The 2 tower people i remember were Bob and Jan. However much their union paid them , they were underpaid. I was a signalman in BRS, i guess they were operators union. Wat a job they did. The forgotten part of railroading. They kept the trains running like clockwork. Most railfans never saw or even hear of a armstrong interlocking

When that toilet pipe broke, Ill bet that model railroad is going to reek of urine and shit. after it's dried out, Best to give it a heavy washing down with Pine Sol.

Thanks for the vid. I'm going from Edmonton to Toronto return this November and really looking forward to it. I can't afford prestige and do not see the value of travelling 'Prestige' class versus my chosen 'Sleeper Plus' in a cabin for 1 as I'm travelling alone.

Thanks Daniel. It looks so different in the snow. Lovely music. We stayed at the Fairmont in Toronto, Jasper Park Lodge and in Coal Harbour Vancouver. Nice to see all this again. We didn't see mountains much from the train due to wildfires. We travelled back to Jasper by car from Prince George, onto Banff and then flew home to France from Calgary. For us, last May, there was another carriage behind the Park Car which spoiled the view. It's good to see you views out the back.

I did this trip several times many years ago, the first time in the 40's (I was only 2 years old but remember being in a berth with my mom) and the last time in the 80's. There were no passenger showers then but it was still a wonderful experience. I'm planning to do it one more time, hopefully this year. My dream is to book the Prestige cabin but I'll probably end up with a roomette for one. :(.

Thank you, really enjoyed your video it brought back memories of my trip back in June, It is too bad that you missed the last part of the journey, I did the round trip from Vancouver. We almost didn't get to leave because of the forest fire situation at Edson Alberta.

I loved all of it except for muting out Neil Young for personal reasons.

Thank you very much for your video. We are planning a trip next year in Prestige and you video answered many questions. Also, your 3 day stop in Jasper, although not your intention, was a great addition! (BTW, your music selection was right up my alley!!) Cheers!!

All of CSX network relies on 1 satellite transponder If that satellite fails like G5 failed in 2005 and we lost all pager service and most cellular service across America, if we lose that satellite all movement of trains has to stop The people at the top making all the money I think it's just great to get rid of people until that critical technology component fails and the entire company goes bankrupt because nothing can move