Ottawa Area Videos
"Station Master" NFB movie about Finch, ON NFB - https://www.nfb.ca/film/station-master/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUznPBD6tSs "Buster Keaton Rides Again" NFB Movie by Buster Keaton "The Railrodder" NFB Movie by Buster Keaton There is a sequence starting at 7.30 running along the canal into Union Station Ottawa. The NFB Website also has additional footage. The link below has footage near Ottawa Union (1.02) as well as on the Maniwaki sub (1.25 with Cascades station and water tower visible at 2.55) https://archives.nfb.ca/stockshot/20695/ Abandoned Ottawa New York Central Last Steam at Bedell - 1950s Ottawa West, Bayview, From Dayliner along Carleton Place sub. Logging in Algonquin Park - Fassett Lumber Co. 1991, February 6 - A VIA Rail Ottawa to Toronto train comes close to a head on with a CP Rail switching movement just outside Smiths Falls For further details see: https://churcher.crcml.org/circle/Wreck%20Details/1991SmithsFalls.html Nicola Delja's Youtube video channel has a great amount of interesting video material, much of it from the Ottawa area. Retro Rail Media Bruce Chapman video volume 1 part 1 Bruce Chapman video volume 1 part 2 Bruce Chapman video volume 2 part 1 Bruce Chapman video volume 2 part 2 RDCs and Railway Excursions (1960s/1970s) Ottawa West and Carleton Place Sub (1960s) Ottawa Union and Ottawa West (1960s) 24 April1966 excursion on Waltham sub, Morehead to Aylmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDVEbocENts All parts have no sound and are time stamped for easy identification of each segment Also from Bruce Chapman - CNR #6167 at Port Robinson https://youtu.be/Z9-0GAXjrOU?si=Rieqaqq45i_gKUiK - CPR triple header excursion to Orangeville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOqXwbmATI0 - East Broad Top Railroad https://youtu.be/_AvzaA_0kNw?si=2sQO1xNvkOq7ND8D Nik separated some footage produced by Crestline titled "Steam In Action" - of interest is the first program that is labelled as "1959/11/22 - CPR 4-4-0 #144 to Cornwall". It can be found at the following link: https://youtu.be/-2HrH8lYzEg?si=Q0MNpONeFA7aDgsK October
4th, 1964 CRHA excursion on CNR 6218. https://youtu.be/SJaC8Qytg-0?si=1BjlVxmZQaMLe3DV Steam Scenes and Movements in Ottawa | May-June 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TumyiySeENw Railway scenes arouind Ottawa 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTudlhfHBo 1057 excursions Ottawa to Carleton Plave and Wakefield 1970s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofPFzTxUMIw 2 May 1988 excursion by motor car over part of the abandoned Smiths Falls sub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0DNqGi4KSk&feature=youtu.be Stewart Moxley 1201 crossing Prince of Wales bridge 14 May 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCEEQvq9Dn4 Lloyd Baxter CNR Museum Train at Aurora 16 May 1953 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQC9QyJeTFc Pierre Elliot Trudeau's Funeral Train (Ottawa-Montreal) October 2nd, 2000 (CJOH/CTV) This footage shows station and aerial material filmed for CJOH/CTV for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Funeral Train that took place on October 2nd, 2000. Most of the footage is silent, with some ground shots (Alexandia, Coteau, and arrival at Montreal's Gare Centrale Station) having some sound. Thanks to David Jeanes for providing the VHS copy of this program for upload. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO8Xd_9CMEUThurso and Nation Valley Railway 1950s-early 1960s NFB Film Cab View from Train Entering Lebreton Flats in 1949? The very last run on the Thurso Railway. In January or February 1987, six months after the TNVR closed, locomotive No, 12 , a flat car and Car 27 made a trip out of Thurso for a short way. This video by Colin Churcher, shows a couple of run passes and then a derailment and rerailment of the locomotive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJgewxLnhvA Dochart Brick and Tile, Arnprior 1987. Showing Plymouth locomotive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Th_bzxU5A Ottawa Area Railfanning 1987 by Colin Churcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhVMGBnMic Ottawa Area Raifanning 1987 volume 2 by Colin Churcher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvCjW9ddNg A cab ride on a CNR freight to Brent on the now abandoned Beachburg subdivision in February 1987. By Colin Churcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc0wUF8AIA CJOH "Ottawa Valley Steam" (1990): https://youtu.be/5fSZb2zct-k?si=MGFNQI4iynH74OD9 CPR 1201 excursion to Wakefield and Magog QC (c. 1981): https://youtu.be/6JHiJcQ9KS4?si=EFS__W8GJ8umycNM Up the Gatineau, last run of 1201 to Wakefield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnaCsKflUI8 Kitchisissippi Museum (Dave Alston) has a number of local videos including some from Bruce Chapman https://www.youtube.com/@kitchissippimuseumdavealls2671 Toronto Union Railfanning 1987 by Colin Churcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS9QNP7IkcA Toronto Streetcars 1986 by Colin Churcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc0gCgKxvSM The Central Counties Railway from Limoges/South Indian to Rockland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX6lRTLOrDA Bytown Railway Society Programs 4 April 2023 Chris Granger Cornwall Area Railways https://youtu.be/7PjImHd-4VU 2 May 2023 Colin Churcher The Wakefield Train 1057 to 1201 https://youtu.be/d5Z2ZW1ZXug Doug Wilson The Search for Safety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlo1vadk4y0&list=PLwUrLFkxSnqyI21lez3a9RTYqd_hCrm-r&index=8&t=590s |
Updated 14 March 2025
