Miss Rick. His shows were funny, educational, nation building, got you involved and left you feeling better about life.

rick is a national treasure, whenever you need a laugh just turn on one of his videos

I'm not gonna lie, I'd love to do his job!! It's too bad he retired too soon because that show was a lot of fun.

Canadian legend. Wish he’d bring the show back. I think in our current political climate Rick Mercer could be our saviour 😂

Rick is so lucky to be able to travel around beautiful Canada and experience things that most people don't. He got to drive a train and stand on top of a railway bridge! I wish I had his job.

Rick, you have the best job in the world.

Never thought i'd fall in love with a spike driver

I used to work on a gang in B.C. clearing a stretch of tunnels in winter. Pick and shovel work. One of my favorite memories of my working youth. Hard work good food and angry foremen.

Love it, thanks for sharing this good railroad information.....Rick Mercer, a true Canadian. Proud to have you here!

My knees were rattling the whole time. Been on that train through BC. OMG.

"This is the throttle and wow look how pretty that is!" (Train crashes)

Look at that fantastic intermodal train, in the background!

I'm so envious of Rick.... I love the guy and his humor, but this is the living end.... he got to drive a bloody train in Canada over the Stony Mountain bridge! Don't really care if the loco was built on Mars! .... and I'm a CPR nut to boot. Guess I'll just keep on dreaming.

do take a coast to coast trip, I did it three times. its just fantastic. Halifax - Montréal - Toronto - Vancouver. Always in Ist Class with a roomette of course. Great trips. once on the original CPR and twice on VIA RAIL.

rick has made me question my dreams. I think I might want to be a train conductor now.

Ahh, Canada was so meant to be traveled by train. Can't wait to take a coast to coast trip someday :D

Rick should have poked a little fun with the train crew about the American built locomotive. ES44AC built by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania.

i feel proud i get to see that scenery every time i go to work :) gotta love cp!

truly fantastic country!!

Craigellachie, British Columbia, was where the Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway happened as Lord Strathcona drove it to complete the railway at almost nine thirty in the morning on Saturday, November 7th, 1885. This village is located about fifty-nine kilometres west of Revelstoke on highway 1.

Trains go through such unique landscape, I wish they were more affordable.

Salute to all the good people at the CPR and Parks Canada!

Ontario Science Center had a wonderful model railway display of the Stoney Creek bridge, and a little window to peak inside the spiral tunnels. And a model train would traverse it all day. I could watch it for hours. I wonder what ever happened to that display?

This is a good episode.

going through the tunnel is amazing

Our country is beautiful isn’t it? Brings a tear to me eye

Damn I love Canada ❤❤❤❤ thank you for all

its 2024 and this guy is still relevant

If you live in Canada its really easy nowdays... Just go for it! There are 6 months formations given at many colleges in Canada, after your all set to be hired. But remember that being a conductor is not only sitting inside the locomotive looking at the view, you have ALOT of duties. Radio communications, double checking signals for the engineer, doing the physical work like uncoupling cars/ attaching the air hose, activation switches outdoor. Not to forget that you are on call 24/7.

That must have been a special train probably made for this feature, because westbounds don`t normally use the older Connaught track in Rogers Pass. Also, the last scene looks like it`s at Glacier station just west of the Connaught Tunnel(the one shown here).

Rick Rocks. That was awesome. Thanks.

what a beauty way to go!

I just went there yesterday!! Lol I want to meet Rick.

One my favorite Canadians ever ❤️ next to David Suzuki ❤️ Migwech

You are a good man Rick Mercer

I want to move to Canada someday

Beautiful British Columbia

Would it be safe to say, in this episode, Rick had a ONE TRACK mind???? LOL

poor Rick. 3/4 of the first swing hit the rail and the rail hit back. lol!

I ❤Rick !!!

I love Rick Mercer, i want to do what he does!😅

How nice !

Staggering beauty all the year around. Why do we leave the country for holidays anyway?

Great video!

Beautiful AND terrifying, my favorite combination. LOL

Always want to do the train trip

@BruceCountyFinest I would love to do that, but I'm a student so I'm kind of stuck here in Vancouver. Though, I plan to experience the world and that includes Canada. Just watching Rick travel around Canada makes me so jealous. XD If it's worth every last breath, I can't wait to see this beautiful country. :)

One of the last rails out of Sydney Steel.... nice

It's so sad seeing that line and thinking of the decline of passenger trains in Canada, we need daily service on all lines, then we add more lines. I should be able to go to anywhere in Canada by train at least daily but I'm really only limited to the Corridor for that, but I can't take the train to Sault Ste Marie

Watching them on the bridge and seeing how far it went down gave me anxiety

Best job I ever had.....

But Rick can't do doughnuts in a train!

Come on Rick. Canada adopted the metric system over 50 years ago.

Unmentioned here is, the last passenger train along this route was in 1990.

I enjoyed this segment

I had to turn it off when he got off on the bridge. Total vertigo!

im a cn conductor, id love to see rick at my terminal!

If I ever got to operate one of those pushcarts, I would do the whole "O Brother Where Art Thou" thing, and start telling people that they'll see cows on the roofs of cotton houses. Oh it would be fun :)

Represent CANADA

Bet his arms were sore the next day.

Engage! Picard would be proud.

This is the throttle, as we go back it goes towards.... Look how pretty that is... LOL

Fantastic!!!

so cool!

@tomcrissy I live in Vancouver, and I've been to the Last Spike. The monument is at Cragellachie, which is between Revelstoke and Salmon Arm.

The last spike fell down the rail ohh dear!

coolest job

Great video! totally cool to see!

That was pretty awesome.

Rick was in notch 8 .....yay

Train are awesome.

It's a kettle. We have kettles and hotplates on most locomotives.

He's wearing a poppy

Will do, see you there

@tomcrissy Nope, I've been there. Its quite a bit east. Close to the alberta border

NOv 7th, 1885 was a saturday

I have a Canadian pacific railroad spike

it's like were from the wile e. coyote cartoon!

I run trains all the time!

I'm going too find that spike

i'd love to be a freight train conductor.

bro what's a flaccid pancake

Rick give me a job!

This music I like at 5:51. What is it?

@rootbeerlover445 It's CP not CN! I work for CP so I take offense.

6:28 ❤ 🇨🇦

@OntarioRails1 Well thats better than the ACes controls

that didn't look like a passenger train, so what's the conductor's job?

they show an ES44AC but the cab of an AC4400CW........

I work on that section of track

I live in Canada

I wonder if the camara man gets to drive stuff

Uhm.... the first transcontinental railway in Canada was the Canadian Pacific. And, this piece was about the anniversary of the driving of the last spike on the first transcontinental railway. CN didn't exist then. Nobody ever accused railfans of being too intelligent :)

wheel is a little thin 4:11

@raceimaztion Hes gotta be? He is slighty crazy :D

@20redhead07 and im stuck being on tracks surrounded by wheat fields :(

I was the 666th like Canada Goose confirmed

Ron Tyhy can one hit spikes.

I live in canda

:)