The SD40-2 at 0:30 is 5820. Just a year after this aired, on November 26, 1977 it was the lead unit of four on a westbound coal train with 106 cars when it suddenly lost braking power on the grade just west of Roger Pass, B.C. The train hit 86 mph before derailing behind the third unit. The fourth, 78 cars, and three unmanned helper units in the middle of the train were wrecked. 5820 and the two trailing units stayed upright and the crew finally managed to bring it to a stop.
@BradFalck-mn3pc
9 ай бұрын
There's a good article on the Derailment called "Runaway at Flat Creek"
@nickythatrailfan
3 ай бұрын
Can I say since did the ships, airplanes, hotels and passengers all disappeared but the shocking thing is that there’s trucking still???? CPKC what the heck
@LocalRailfan
15 жыл бұрын
This video is awesome, it's a shame that railways lack to make commercials now days.
@OofusTwillip
7 жыл бұрын
How charming. Especially when you consider how many Chinese workers got killed building that railroad.
@jppicur
6 жыл бұрын
A lot of people got killed building that railroad. There were no safety standards for workers in those days. If you worked with your back, you expected to get killed or maimed -- it was part of life in every heavy industry. There was hardly a railway brakeman, in the days before modern couplers, who didn't lose fingers or a hand (or a life) on the old link-and-pin couplers. In fact, it was considered a badge of the profession. Life insurance companies refused to cover railroaders or miners -- that's how the early unions -- the trade brotherhoods -- got started. They began as mutual insurance organizations.
@kansascityshuffle8526
Жыл бұрын
@@jppicur ok rewrite that part of history
@ldhorricks
13 жыл бұрын
I have that video as well as part of a full CFL football broadcast...you can see at the head of the video the graphics from the 76 Grey Cup.
@WAL_DC-6B
14 жыл бұрын
How does the steel mill, as shown in the commercial, factor into the old Canadian Pacific? Nobody seems to know!
@jppicur
6 жыл бұрын
CP owned Algoma Steel.
@BradFalck-mn3pc
9 ай бұрын
Egg shen
@trainmasta227
14 жыл бұрын
U MUST LISTEN 2 HIM plus THEY HAD PLANES
@jimt.626
2 жыл бұрын
What’s the CP label on the boat??.
@mrcodec7814
2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure it reads 'cp steamships' which was one of Canadian Pacific's many Subsidiaries.
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