The Railrodder – small dead animals

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Man, I laughed so hard I almost peed myself at the ‘duck blind” scene…
A master at work. Notice the stunts he did while on the moving cart!

Didn’t Micheal Ignatiaf and Barrack Obama make the same trip going north to south.? Except their cart had a bench seat. Or maybe it’s just the six pack playing tricks.

Thank you for posting this. I was a teenager when I first watched this and I enjoyed it just as much now as I did then.

Thanx Kate; I should have followed Buster west at the time. Cheers;

Cute video, but can tell the typical Eastern Canadian mentality on it, there’s nothing out West to see but nature.
Shots of Quebec City and Montreal, but nothing of Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, or Vancouver to say the least.
Couldn’t they have taken a better shot of cleaner rivers than the dirty ones?
Ironic, using CN gocart on a CP rail.

Yeah, good stunting by Buster, very brave to say the least on a moving vehicle and across bridges with very little on the sides.

Back in the day, I was a lineman for CNCP between Calgary and Field BC.
I used a motorcar just like that and a smaller collapsible one that would fit in a van. The smaller one was really a small minibike with an outrigger sterched across to the other rail and we would pile 6 guys, tools and materials on it.
Great memories.

I haven’t seen a jigger in years…
Now they use 1-tons with reversed wheels and raisable flanged guides….which on roads tend to be top heavy and “cork-screw”.
But then…I recall transferring a V-8 Dodge-Dakota with the railway kit from Montreal to Woodstock….the weight of the railway kit vastly lowered the centre of gravity, gave a great ride which would kick a$$.
For more serious maintainence, full sized straight trucks, with small cranes and air tools, whose inner duals provide traction on the rails.
I recall one such which weighed 20MT empty—payload 4MT. A long tandem…with the front bumper about 3-4′ up….totally indifferent to encounters with deer….swatting an even dozen between North Bay and the SOO.

Love it.

Heh, I remember being shown this sometime in grade school. Good memories.

Did Buster use Mr Dressup’s “tickle trunk”. My son and I laughed at all the stuff he pulled out of there.

That was good, thanks Kate.

looks like a reprise of Keaton’s original ‘train’ movie….the original(black and white) as i remember had steam engines as the means of transportation….
buster had a connection to Beckett as well…he was an interesting man…forever stretching within his metier….and the deadpan speaks volumes.

An absolute delight. Thank you!

‘i feel like some old engine
that’s lost it’s driving wheel”
Keaton always felt that way..

GodDAMN the CPR
🙂

I like it, too. But, it would be a lot better if it did not have the silly sign across it, which says, “Sorry this film is not available” beside a bird in a cage. Typical government crap – the film I am clearly watching is one they claim is not available.

I have never seen this from start to finish. That was wonderful! The duck blind scene LOL

I want one of them little red boxes with the flippy lid.

What a great adventure. Open air cart, the wind in your hair, a trunk of supplies…a wonderful temptation to borrow a ride, jump on and go for a trip.

Nice to be reminded of a once free strong Canada.
Hard to believe a whole generation now has been raised in a socialist semi-democracy.
Those where hopeful times where progress did not mean Marx.
Though as one person put it the Eastern bias was typical for the times. Still is for that matter.
JMO

Loved it. Recognized a few spots..thinking the ending being White Rock. It’s amazing how much stuff you can pack into that little red box.

Saved this one on my VCR. I am often a little dubious about our tax dollars at work on things “Hollywood”. Not on this one and I stare at the scenes that are now recorded for all time. Those long automobiles glimpsed at rail road crossings and the houses. mostly frame ones, nicely painted.

Yep, well worth the tax money and I also caught a documentary on a reunion with some of the people, who were out west at the time. This regarding that filming. There was Buster himself and being wined and dined in good old small town Canadian fashion.

The man was a master at what he did. I loved the film that was somewhat sympathetic to the South, in the American Civil War. This on wartime travails only. Slavery not brought in of course. Just the railway adventure based on true facts. Seen the actual locomotive myself in Atlanta- “The General”. Keaton as Johnny Gray, the bumbling confederate soldier.

Thanks for that Kate.
This week I was reading “The Little Engine That Could” with a three-year-old pal. As she examined the pictures, I had to explain “roundhouse” & the tiny railcart pictured.
This will be useful & gives a good picture of Canada’s geography. “Paddle to the Sea” is another good one for that.
Both are also on youtube.

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