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Apr 1, 2004 8:49 am
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VIA #1, as observed at Union Stn at 0740 EST this morning. 6425 6449 8609 8120 Skyline 8507 Empress Macdonald Manor Grant Manor Douglas Manor Assiniboine Park ...
On Tuesday at VIA's Toronto maintenance center I saw a train consisting of two old diesels and passenger cars dressed in old CN green. What is this train? What...
... Generally, the family rooms were the drawing rooms that were still in the original configuration: sort of an enclosed section with a toilet annex....
That sounds like the former Waterloo St. Jacobs train set. It's been there for a couple of years since the operation went bankrupt. Message: 25 Date: Thu, 1...
That might have been the old Waterloo-St. Jacob's Rwy. train set. It is painted in old CN colours and I'm pretty sure it's being stored in Toronto. On Tuesday...
Philippi, Merrell
philippim@...
Apr 1, 2004 2:57 pm
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... Ex-Waterloo - St Jacobs excursion consist. ... Storage. John John Godfrey Les Services SEMAPHORE Services www.semaphoreservices.com [Non-text portions of...
Just to go a little further, here is something I had found about a week ago online. I think that the price tag is very well worth what has been done with the...
Whoops I think I forgot the link. http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/new_page_81.htm Ian Windsor, Ontario http://www.trainweb.org/swontariotrain/index.html ...
Caught VIA 70 with 6415 and VIA 71 with 907 through Ingersoll http://railfan.thegrebs.com/VIA/VIA6415R?full=1 <http://railfan.thegrebs.com/VIA/VIA6415R?full=1>...
... The line on this page saying "# 5737 Built in 1948 for CNR as a dayniter coach seating 52" is incorrect. It was built in 1948 all right, but as a...
Officials from Transport Canada, including the Deputy Minster, Louis Ranger, testified before the House of Commons Transport Committee on March 9. An excerpt...
In a message dated 4/1/04 9:39:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... By "bench seats" do you mean the seats in the "section" within the drawing room, or the long...
... drawing ... third bed? ... I tried all three and they were equally horrid: hard, lumpy and rather straight-backed. Mind you, it was only one car whose old...
... <tbox@g...> ... can't ... I can recall in the last years of the Toronto-Chicago day trains that the cars "Diamond Lake" and "Silver Lake" were used to...
In a message dated 4/1/04 3:58:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I've often wondered how comfortable seats in open-section cars were. After all, they didn't...
... The 'section' in a drawing room or compartment was no different from sections in the rest of the heavyweight cars. No, they weren't very comfortable to sit...
Dale Wilson
dale.wilson@...
Apr 2, 2004 12:38 am
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... The most significant modification is the fact that the Skylines have been "turned around" to point the opposite direction from the as-built configuration....
Brent Best
bjbest@...
Apr 2, 2004 5:17 am
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This is a proposed listing, It may not be accurate due to changes The formatting may also be bad acct. Various email system Proposed service April 2, 2004 ...
... CN ... car ... It is a bit difficult to recall some of these details from 36 years ago but I am under the impression that the parlor car on my trip on the...
I hadn't spotted this page before in the Via site and wonder why it is listed only under "adventures" since the information may be of use to non-adventurous...
I had several rides in the mid-late 1960s on the GTW/CN joint service--both on the day and night trains. I recall both the parlor-diner-lounge with 2/1 seating...
Carl H. Fowler
railvt@...
Apr 2, 2004 6:38 pm
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VIA's deficit for 2003 was reported to be $184M, up over $30M from the previous year. The official reason is SARS and the outbreak of mad cow disease which...
... It has never been explained why CP was gung-ho enough to come up with the two train concept only to turn around in a very short time and abandon it...
Dale Wilson
dale.wilson@...
Apr 2, 2004 7:44 pm
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... Never having ridden or even seen the inside of those cars, I had not realized that the 'parlor' seating in the converted coaches was the loose chair...
Dale Wilson
dale.wilson@...
Apr 2, 2004 8:14 pm
18317
Here's an article from the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal reporting that Industrial Rail Services in Moncton has a letter of intent to supply RDCs for the...
... "two train" is perhaps a little misleading, since there was only one round trip per day on this route. The trains just had different names east- and...
Bad link, Tom. Please recheck and repost it. Mark Walton mark.walton@... ... From: Tom Box To: Canadian-Passenger-Rail@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
... It works fine if you remove the extraneous < > and . ... David Jeanes...
David Jeanes
david@...
Apr 2, 2004 11:25 pm
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... The angle brackets aren't extraneous. They serve to delimit the URL, telling your mail client that they and anything outside of them (in this case the...
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