featurs the railroad people of Revelstoke and nearby communities and the classic CP Canadian
well worth viewing
appropriate for the season
www.nfb.ca./film/railroaders
FTFY.
Norm
The film was made in 1958. Riding those open speeders in the Canadian winder looked cold. I saw they would climb telegraph poles with boot spikes and no belt, and would add acid (sulfuric?) to signal batteries and hand them down to a guy in an underground vault. Hopefully things were safer than they looked. Great pictures of railroading in the Canadian Rockies.
I got a pair of Lionel CP passenger cars for Xmas about the year this film was made. I fulfilled a longtime wish when I rode the Canadian 30 years later. Thanks for letting us know of this film.
And don't forget the Buster Keaton classic of about the same era called "The Railroader". A hapless Buster swims ashore presumably shipwrecked and presumably on the Atlantic Coast. In need of transportation from nowhere he spies a hand car and takes off on his journey to the Pacific Ocean. All thanks to Canadian railroads!
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"The Railrodder" was a short and one of Keaton's last films (1965).
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