Most of you have not heard much about Charles Smiley, but he and contributing photographers were monumentally accomplished in the taking of action films. They followed the trains, much like many train lovers in their cars do today, or they perched on bridges, on telegraph poles if necessary, anywhere to catch the real true-life, thundering-past of one or more engines hauling a train.
Revisit the early 1990s on the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to new territory in the US. See D-137 Northeast Rails Vol 2:
More U-tube video previews here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSrM42i7pEk&t=13s
Two other DVDs have even more extensive coverage of Canadian roads.
D-134 Canadian Rails Vintage Scrapbook:
RDCs at PGE
Working Locomotives in BC
And the fascinatingly unusual beauty and danger of BC:
CN Diesel Power
Cab Shot of a Tunnel View
For More U-tube video previews, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI6e7TRCLd0
D-147 - Canadian Electric Rails
Thanks to our supplier, we have new pictures of the Electrics too:
Another and often never-considered point: these guys functioned in a time when there were no graffitied-up trains. The trains were as painted, their colors true to their roads, their cars pristine and gorgeous with shop-paint fresh, shining, and untouched. Amazing!
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