CANADIAN-PASSENGER-RAIL GROUP INFORMATION: Scope and Mandate: Canadian-Passenger-Rail (a.k.a. CanPassRail) is a place to discuss all aspects of past, present,...
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May 1, 2004 9:01 am
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I think this is a valid opinion. I'd prefer the term 'higher speed' in terms of line improvement since there are significant differences between a passenger...
Dale Wilson
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May 1, 2004 2:52 pm
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... It would seem there several more schedule adjustments required. I agree with some comments that have been made that you do not require CN to change in...
Dale Wilson
dale.wilson@...
May 1, 2004 2:52 pm
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Saturday, May 1, 2004 I was downtown this morning, so I watched the Canadian depart Toronto and then caught it again @ Doncaster on my way home. VIA #1 @...
I also saw 97 today at Merriton in St. Catharines. After the 800's left the area we did get the 100's but I think this is the second below 100 unit I have...
New Canadian articles in magazines of interest RailPace May 2004 6 Pages lots of colour pictures Article title Goderich Exeter Railway Motive Power Review.by...
A new story in this month's Railfan and Railroad, about the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range as a fallen flag, becoming part of CN (no mention of their stripping...
OS Amtrak/VIA Maple Leaf Power for Saturday 01-May-2004. VIA 97 (AMTK 160)-5 Amflt cars past Canpa at 09:52EDT. VIA 98 (AMTK 152)-5 Amflt cars past Park Royal...
The way i see it GEXR doesn't care about improved freight movement as they are a shortline and are designed to operate on slower track. Their main goals are...
Ian, I was able to ask a couple of Via employees what was being inspected on Tuesday past when Via ran their "pocket domeliner". The reason is the maintenance...
In the '60s CN realized they had some valuable downtown properties and no longer needed the large stations that occupied them. They set out to redevelop the...
... From: Gary Hadfield [mailto:ghadfield@...] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:03 AM To: Canadian-Passenger-Rail@yahoogroups.com Subject: [CanPassRail]...
... This redevelopment was not a CN initiative. In fact CN President Donald Gordon fought tooth and nail against the 1959 government decision to abandon the...
TORONTO, May 3 /CNW/ - VIA Rail Canada will unveil the new look of two of six locomotives that will be appearing from coast to coast throughout this summer as...
... Gary: I'm curious as to what prompted this particular thread, and why particularly CN? CPR also redeveloped several of its station properties and...
... Train Journal August 1987 Vol. 18 No. 7? Well I got a photo-copy of the issue in the mail today from Gerald Gaugl, thanks very much Gerry. Lost your...
... [snip] In Windsor and in Saskatoon, CN moved its passenger stations out of the downtown areas in the 1960s. I don't know how the former station sites were...
Any Idea what the numbers are. If its any of the F40s they really need to have a good looking paint for them to be on it, since lots of the F40s I have seen...
... In 1911 in Toronto, the Canadian Northern Railway bought the entire block on the north side of King Street between Toronto and Church Streets and announced...
6412 broke down at the Brantford station yesterday afternoon, I was working at the time and I couldn't get home to take a picture of it, about 10:30 lastnight...
VIA #1, as observed backing into Union Stn at 0745 EDT this morning. 6435 6449 4004 (DH) 4002 (DH) 8610 8124 8104 8122 Skyline 8504 Wolfe Manor Abbot Manor ...
Hi Folks Saw a Via FP40 shunting a string of cars to be maintained at CAD in Lachine last weekend April 24, unfortainatly I did not get most of there #'s or...
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