Last Days of The Newfoundland Railway (CN -TerraTransport)

Rail Innovations video about the end of CN's narrow gauge Newfoundland Railway. By 1988 the railway was operated by a CN subsidiary called TerraTransport. Due to loss of market share to other transportation modes the federal government of Canada and CN chose to shut down it's Newfoundland rail operation announced in June 1988. This video shows the last schedule fright train on September 29th 1988, extra 944 eastbound, although the train is not hauling any revenue freight only transferring rolling stock from Bishop's Falls to St. John's. Video is shot onboard the locomotive plus alongside the train. Also includes footage of the crew change in Clarenville and removal of some train cars at Clarenville. The camera person rides as far as Whitbourne. The next train shown is the passenger run from Bishop's Falls to Corner Brook on September 30th 1988. Again a camera person riders the train in both the locomotive cab, the passenger coach's and caboose. The beginning of the film has an introduction on the railway and several photos of various rolling stock and trains over the years are shown. This video was released by Rail Innovations in 1989 on VHS. Rail Innovations sold the video for several years but the masters were eventually damaged and it was discontinued. Rail Innovations sold most of it's video catalog to Greg Scholl Video Productions. Several of the tiles have been re-released by Greg Scholl but not the Newfoundland one. Several years ago I bought some items off the owner of the former Rail Innovations, Steve Bradly, and he included a complimentary DVD of this film. I have an original VHS copy of this film also. This has been uploaded only to share with others for educational - historical purposes only seeing as its quite rare by now and no longer for sale. No copyright infringement is intended. © Rail Innovations 1989