Just a neat old clip of the birth of CP 3100 & 3101 courtesy of the canadian Pacific Archives. Even being a flatlander Californian on the WP, I really enjoyed this and figured my friends here both north and south of the border would enjoy it too.
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Thanks for posting that, Tom.
Very informative and an interesting glimpse back to the time when we actually made stuff.
Wayne
What a great movie!!! Thanks for posting the link!! Boy, wouldn't OSHA, etc. have a massive heart attack watching that one!!
Thanks for posting this! Very nice looking engines.
-Crandell
Great link...!! It should be titled "Those Magnificent Men and Their Steaming Machines"....
Reminded me of a phrase in a Kurt Vonnegut book that goes something like this...
"How God must have laughed when He saw how men had contrived to mix fire, iron and water to make a steam engine...".
Thanks for posting the video link.That was a great video.
I enjoy watching anything that shows how steam locomotives were built. It was actually so enjoyable I am off to my work shop to get some work done on my CNR U-1-f Mountain locomotive. It is also a good day to be in the work shop as we are getting a snow storm here. :x
Wayne Reid
That was cool!
Scared me a little though, people walking under the loco when it was up in the air like that. Definatly something you wouldn't see today.
Are the Angus Shops still in operation?
That was great.
I like the comments about OHAS. That was filmed when Men were Real MEN!
...and sheep were scared!
hock: :o
Thanks for the post. I saw it on the board a few days ago, but did not have the time to look at it then. I finally found time to view the film. Awesome, I would imagine that film was quite a production back in 1928. How long did it take to build that locomotive from the original wooden patterns to finished product, with a film crew or at least cameraman there for a good part of the build to get all of that filmed. It must have been months at least! The music made a nice back ground to the film as well.
Neat video! Thanks for posting it.
that's some cool stuff.