70 minutes - available as DVD (CBNSMAIN) and HD AVCHD (CBNSMAIN-HD)

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This excerpt from the video shows three C-630Ms descending the hill into New Glasgow and then three SD40-2s , an SD45-2 and a GP15 ascending the same hill.

A wide variety of locomotives are seen on the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway between Truro and the Canso Causeway including MLW C-630M & RS-18s; GM F40PH-2, GP9, GP9-4, GP15, GP38-2, GP40, GP40-2L(W), SD40-2, SD45-2s and an MPI GP20D.

The Hopewell Subdivision runs from the interchange with CN at Truro through Stellarton, New Glasgow and Antigonish to Havre Boucher. The Sydney Subdivision runs from Havre Boucher to the Canso Causeway and then to Sydney in Cape Breton.

Trains are seen at many locations from west to east. In order to include as many locations as possible not all trains are shown in their entirety. The scenery is fantastic with great fall colours and snow scenes as well as spring and summer greenery.

Long freight trains carry  logs, lumber, paper, coal, chemicals, petroleum products, natural gas, plastic pellets, new railcars, carbon black and other materials to make tires as well as consumer products. Economic swings have altered the mix of products carried and the video shows a diverse mixture of cars from many railroads.

For 5 years VIA operated a weekly tourist passenger train between Halifax and Sydney in the summer and it is seen at several locations.