Made back in the days of wooden cars and steel men! Now it's steel cars and wooden men!

Sad but true, sure hope they were/are well compensated. Hoping we ha e since come up with a rig of some sort to do the job without endangering folks 🤞😬🤞...

@@Canada150Archive For the most part, communication lines are now buried. Some non-safety-critical communications are sent over microwave links.

Sam Romero did that for 42 years!

I used to work for CN Telecommunications. Back in the mid 70s, when I worked in Northern Ontario, I maintained the equipment those wires connected to. As mentioned in the film, they carried the CBC radio feed, telegrams, dispatchers traffic, phone calls and much more. With that equipment, you could get 16 voice circuits over a pair of wires. You'll see the cross arms on the poles in that film. Each cross arm would carry 5 pairs, which meant 80 voice circuits per cross arm and there were usually a few cross arms on the pole. There would also be one pair, on the lowest cross arm, marked with the letter "D". This designated the dispatchers phone and the rail employees could connect a portable phone to that pair. When I was working along the CN main line, somewhere between Capreol and Armstrong, I would often get on that phone (inside, I didn't have to climb a pole 🙂) to arrange for a train, often a freight, to stop and give me a ride.

Milwaukee road communications.

Indeed 😊!!!

As a CN section foreman I can tell you my toes do in fact hurt working in the snow gotta love Raynauds disease hahaha

We quite enjoy this print as well and are thrilled to hear you do too 👍😊👍!!!

Hello. A quick check of the National Film Board of Canada's website credits Geoffrey Hogwood as the narrator.

@@sitesurfer1 Thanks!

The beginning of the film is missing, but no big deal.

@garyhersemeyer2642 We feel we should reupload this in better quality, though we regret we don't have the opening scenes. Thanks for understanding 🙏!!!

We are so very glad to hear you enjoyed it, really means a lot 👍❤👍!!!

Amen 😊!!!

I've got a Dr. Grabow "Bulldog" pipe just like the first Engineer...

Indeed 😊!!!

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Thanks so much for the kind words and very glad you liked it! We actually have a lot more where that came from, so please be sure to hit that subscribe button, eh?

Glad you like it, fellow Manitobans!

No kidding, eh, phew... Canada FTW!!!

We so second what you mean, super spell-casting almost with the narrators' voices and what not 😂... That having been said, it is one of the reasons we ourselves are suckers and thank you in advance for please subscribing as we have hundreds more on the way where that came from 😊!!!

Hi there, and thank you for the kind words. While we regret we do not have Cavendish country, we invite you to please check out the other titles we have already uploaded and more still on the way 👍😊👍!!!

Glad you like it as well and please stay safe put there in this crazy world we're living in!

In grade 3, many, many years ago, my teacher would rap my knuckles with a ruler, for writing with my left hand. She ruined my handwriting.

So sorry to hear about that, so glad we have come a long way in certain aspects, eh!

@@Canada150Archive You can thank religion for that. Some people believed it was the sign of the devil. I wouldn't be surprised if some still do.

Writing train orders all day long gave him plenty of practice. He probably developed a few flourishes of his own as well to relieve the monotony.

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The conductor or brakeman was wiping down diesel oil film that might have gotten onto to handles

Sad but true 😭!!!

As a railroader in Canada, I can assure you that there’s just as much snow in the rockies.

As my fellow Canadian railroader above has mentioned, there is still plenty of snow in the Rockies.

do you always proclaim your stupidity and ignorance so loudly?

As a former track maintainer in that area, I can assure you it is

These days, it would be fibre.