A good film on the end of steam in Canada. Can anyone identify some of the railfans or the fan trips shown? CP 2816 is shown near the end but this was produced in the early 1960's by the National Film Board of Canada. A lot of good detail shots in this one.

JH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg9_TnwrCXw

A jewel of a film!!

Maybe something of comparable quality was made in the United States (and I know of at least one comparable film from Australia), but if it was done, I haven't seen it. I'm afraid the lack of something like this says something about us.

Something else to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBPgUSa18_8

Some rail footage is in this one, at 26:30 and 45:20. This is from the National Film Board site:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/royal_journey/

Found an index page to things listed as "Railways." The category includes documentaries of various vintages, and just entertainment stuff, like animated films. The two black and white films mentioned so far are part of this grouping.

https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/transportat ... ox_id=2605

End Of The Line, an old favorite. At 6 minutes or so, look at some of the engines in the dead line: CNR 4-6-0 1396, and CNR 4-6-4T 47, both eventually destined for Blount's Steamtown.

And a nice clip of Omer Lavallee, prolific rail author and historian, CPR's Official Historian, and the last CPR Paymaster, on the paycar that operated across northern Maine until 1960.

Howard P.

J3a-614:

Nice to see shots of numbers 3539 and 3537, a couple of the Canadian National's S-2a class 2-8-2's with their Belpaire fireboxes. Wish one of the S-2a's had been preserved.


Les