Extreme Machines - Metal monsters - 4/5

most rooms devotion fourteen this meant that there has been little time for anyone else they had three women in my life significant so far and all have this there'd been some degree of my passion this lady %uh but all of come to recognize fairly early on in the relationship but they couldn't compete with four hundred and thirty-four fund this is one of the most spectacular famous railways in the world the Canadian pacific's three thousand mile route from montreal vancouver constructing a line of this land it was an amazing achievement in Indiana particularly when faced with this kind of obstacles the rocky mountains but when the future of your nation is at stake it can be achieved after the break do you think when Canada gained its independence from Britain eighteen sixty seven it was made up of just for eastern provinces and the country's first prime Minister believed bit of Canada was to survive as a nation and compete with the united states it would have to expand questions but there was virtually no way to get from east and west as a condition of joining Canada the British columbia securities demand the railway line built harvard's wave right part of the mountains it took just four and a half years to construct at a cost of one hundred seventy five it was completed in nineteen eighty six an incredible sixteen years ahead of schedule for over one hundred years people have come from all and lying areas the passenger services a new generation of diesel locomotives has been less time manufactured by Canadian pacific these are the most powerful train eighty feet long in sixteen fee these metal monsters are capable of pulling five thousand tons a top speed of seventy five this trial three engines generate six thousand horsepower and have a fuel capacity of five thousand eight hundred jobs each locomotive takes four weeks to construct and costs over two million but even with machines this power calling a massive freight train over the rockies requires three a master he said behind is a second a remote control this mammoth gray needs it we're just people the engineers the crew chief the conductor of monitors that range progress backs up the engineer to sixty nine the work your way out the a break being a conductor and actually get to go into the training program to be loved morning's hearing what should we take after a year three months the classroom well fred valuable more than two years on the difference until you're ready to be qualified this jury over a mile away and weighing over fourteen hello he's bound for vancouver the train car these are huge each one holds enough for March trucks once it leaves a man the train climbed steadily up towards the key thing of course the past ross's over the continent on one side of a mountain change the river's flow to the atlantic over the other side they float down three percent and one of the most dangerous sections in the early years of the line it was a big hit and eight-mile stretch of track with the steep four point five percent growth many traders lost control here and you're a loser over a period of twenty years six crewmen were killed Canadian pacific was forced to think of a safe way of getting trained so this was there a solution it may look like two trains travelling in opposite directions but in fact this is the same train winding its way through a spiral time to spiral tunnels wind like a corkscrew through the mountains called the pretzel is three thousand two hundred fifty five feet long emerging fifty six feet lower than its entrance although steam power mechanical rules were used most of the work was accomplished by most of us would the tunnels were completed in nineteen oh nine after twenty months of work on also know these itself black people and I don't know historical background in utah see the train once through the time the journey west to that the engineer most this well I don't help I'm not clear at all in your heart starts I think it's a little scary I've never actually went away there's times when you're not comfortable lead the trains going a little little faster than you want to be going in it's not responding to what you want to do it now you applied for breaking so it does come back under control what a nice feeling laurie levenson for each working ten-hour shifts a freight train like this from ukraine a lot of rhetoric even when they make it to the other end of the road Peter the country depends on us although most people now troubled while the movie they're playing tennis locomotives in a massive three mostly are just as important yes they were not too many people want to collect rusty old diesel engines but there are some who see the beauty in all locomotives this man is one of the most successful record producers in the history of British pop music his name is pete water all he wants to do is dry I have to ask the jury these things