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1947 Digging the Canadian railway out of snowbanks
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0:32Now PlayingDate: 24th February 1947
Location: Canada
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
CANADA: Vancouver:
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CANADA Canadian train equipped with snow-plough rushes at snow-drifts clearing the Great White Way to Vancouver
RAILWAYS Train with snow-plough smashes its way through snow-drifts at 40 m.p.h. Shots of the train backing and coming forward. Finally a shot of the Great White Way down to Vancouver in Canada
SNOW Canadian train charges snow-drifts on the transcontinental to clear the line
Canada; Railways; Vehicles; Transport
train, winter, coal, fuel, snow, transport, North America
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