Name: Springhill Junction to Quebec City
Released: 2020-03-07

Great American Railroad Journeys

S4 · E7 — Springhill Junction to Quebec City

S4:E7 · Springhill Junction to Quebec City

Great American Railroad Journeys

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Springhill Junction to Quebec City

Season 4 · Episode 7 · Mar 7, 2020

Clutching his 1899 copy of Appleton’s Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Along the way, he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its dramatic rock formations and caves. Michael apparently defies gravity on a magnetic hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville. North of Moncton in Miramichi, he joins the Elsipogtog First Nation in a pow wow, where he learns about quilting and traditional dress. In Amherst, Michael investigates the history of an ambitious ship railway designed to ferry ships by rail over the isthmus between the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait. He quarries highly-prized Wallace sandstone for a 150-year-old family firm.

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Great American Railroad Journeys

TV Series

201629m8.3

Documentary

Now playing

Springhill Junction to Quebec City

Season 4 · Episode 7 · Mar 7, 2020

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