Canada's Colorful Government Grain Hopper Cars
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- čas přidán 5. 10. 2023
- Grain trains in Canada these days have become aesthetic-wise, pretty boring. Not too long ago, more trains could be seen carrying hundreds of colorful red, green, maroon, brown and blue hopper cars owned by the government of Canada. In this video, we'll go over the brief history of these colorful cylindrical hoppers.
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I just love the quirky shape of these cylinder hoppers, purely for the consist in Unstoppable
I have fond memories of these cars. The new ones are boring to look at. The old government cars looked great in photos coming around curves. I have lots of photos from the 80s of these grain cars and the 40-foot boxes, too.
Those Canadian government grain cars were my favorite all time car and I agree all you said on this stuff about those grain cars, I use to love grain trains but now grains trains are one of the most boring freight trains to catch when railfanning + its hard to even tell if it's a potash or grain train these days..., my favorite Canadian grain car is the Red painted Canada grain car, second favorite is the Brown painted with lime green or yellow at the ends wheat car, I miss seeing those grain cars..., when i was a little boy when I seen grain trains I got excited and watched the hole thing, I actually think my first ever train I seen on my life as I remember was a grain train, this year I actually caught a CP grain train with 54 red canada grain cars, 43 blue Alberta grain cars, 6 brown Saskatchewan grain cars, and 10 brown with yellow or lime green wheat cars and i think all filled with grain going to Ontario probably for the last time in used, and just a week ago I also caught a CN grain train with all Canadian government grain cars going in to the main CN yards! 2 pretty rare trains to catch out there these days, hopefully catch a few more of those before they are gone forever..., Rust In Peace Colorful Canadian Government Grain Cars.
Great Video man! Thanks for uploading it, I was wondering what actually happened to those grain cars and why i don't see them any more, let's just hope we all as railfans get to catch a few more Canadian colorful grain cars before they are gone for good.
I love the paint schemes on these colorful Canadian hopper cars. Had no idea they were phased out already. Hated to see these cars defaced by vandals in later years of use. I like the colors on that other cylindrical hopper, too, that's used for chemicals, I believe. The one that looks like a roll of fruit flavored Life Savers.
"where they are tho" *beat drops
Make it a sound effect pls..
Grain cars, Here’s more history for you, I know a lot of history, If you know it already but CN was late on the party of grain hoppers, They haven’t gotten grain hoppers until the 80s, CN still had to use the old method of grain in box cars until the 1980a.
I wasn’t even aware an Alberta Cyndie was preserved! Let alone cosmetically restored! Those are my favorite out of all of them. I own Castle Island (ALNX 396087) in HO Scale. Working on getting a Coke Can and one of the Brown “Root Beer Cans” on the layout too.
Great work is BoooomM 💣💀👍🏽💯 likes
The Virgin Generic Covered Hopper Car vs The Chad Canadian Government Covered Hopper Car
Great video, it's high time someone got into the whole cylindrical hopper thing, nice job ,I'm off to Thornton yards to do some photography have a great 🇨🇦Thanksgiving weekend
Of corporations don’t care about style. Really showed when CPKFC was formed! 💀
I'm from Winnipeg too and i spend alot of time in the dauphin area and i remember when i was a kid not to long ago all i would see is these beautiful gov hoppers led by Cowl units and EMDs alike and its sad now a days all it is is GEVOS and boring cars for me its makes me not want to take the time out of my day to watch trains anymore because 9 times out of 10 its a GEVO running the show.
miss the days when it was a lash up of cowl units running a colorful grain train through dauphin. now they are all Unit grain trains headed for the race tracks.
i mean atleast the likes of Cando and a few other short lines are keeping older units alive like the GMD-1 1010 that actually used to operate the winnipegosis sub back in the day wish i was alive to see that haha.
and dont get me started how sad it, is that most of the branch lines are now gone....
Yeah same, It's crazy how fast the rail industry changes, we had some cool branchlines too! I wish I had gotten trackside more as a kid, I saw the tail end of all the cool locomotives and cars before they were replaced with GEVOs, lol
@TheWinnipegRailfan we must be around the same age then haha, yeah when I was 13 around 2010 me and my dad would go to Diamond to watch trains highball out of winnipeg and I sware every second unit was a cowl lol
Also I worked for CN for a few years as a signal maintainer and when I was working there, there were talks that they are going to eventually CTC the Letellier and Gladstone sub since they are planning on running a bunch more trains a day down those line but that was back in 2021 when I heard that. I think letellier is in a better position for CTC since it's already CWRd.
I saw a few of the old cylindrical, colorful grain cars in 2022 On their way From alberta
Canadian Hopper lore. (Steve Harvey)
Great video!
Is the Winnipeg Railway Museum back in business? I thought that they were forced to leave the VIA Rail Station? Great video, BTW!
Nope! We were allowed to stay for a while longer, We're just closed currently for renovations.
i thought it was forced out
We were, but thankfully we got a new lease term for a few more years
It's just like cars from the 70s to today, they used to be extremely colorful and now most cars on the road are white or gray....
They were called the "Grain pipeline"
thunder bay just got a whole train of canada ones today
Nate dawg appearance!!!!!
This is kind of off topic but I was thinking that you should do a review based off of the movie before 2010 unstoppable was made "RUNAWAY TRAIN" a 1985 canon film classic starring John Voight, and Eric Roberts
Ps. I know I’m giving you a lot of train videos suggestions and among other things because I am kind of interested on what you’re doing with the transit bus series and obviously the stuff we do for Content series I personally think you should do an update video every other month to let people know what you’ve been doing with the videos and series and future videos especially the 10 year anniversary. I’ve been waiting for 84 years lol
the hood trampoline
Amazing
yup, they got lazy and went all grey... and that's why we are adding color to them 😃
i love those color hoppers the new ones are just meh like you said
Are you going to do a video on Pillsberry cylinder hoppers on what happened to them
I miss the last most colorful batch 😢
Sadly, I feel like all modern rail stock has become as commercial as a generic light switch. Industry has lost it's taste for opulence. Sad economic times.
I guess Trudeau hates the colorful hoppers.
Come to America: it's more boring here! 😂
*ROUND HOPPER*
You wrote colour Wrong FYI
It's a lose lose situation, yanks say color, canucks say colour, LOL