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Canadian-Passenger-Ra...
Oct 1, 2004 10:28 am
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A press release from RailAmerica, <URL:http://tinyurl.com/5jrnz>, says: "Charles Swinburn, Chief Executive Officer of RailAmerica: 'The E&N Railway has been...
Probably bad news, BUT, Rail America has been a very poor operator of the E&N throughout its tenuer--so it's entirely possioble another operator could do a...
Carl H. Fowler
railvt@...
Oct 1, 2004 3:22 pm
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The latest Vialogue has an article about and a photo of a refurbished Renaissance coach or VIA 1 car. The smaller (four-row) sections which presently have...
In 1968 I worked at the Banff Springs Hotel. While staff from back east here had passes on the Canadian going out to Banff (still have my pass and ticket...
The following, part of a posting to the CPR list by Donald Scott, is also worth repeating here. ... ->>>Montreal, Quebec January 11, 1960 Evening-Windsor...
... In April 1961, the scheduled departure time from Montreal was 2215 and arrival in Toronto at 0700. I suppose it was abut the same in January 1960. ...
What is unsual about today's departure of the Canadian from Toronto is not just that there were seven Chateau sleepers, but that six of those were operated in...
... The Canadian makes Via #85 look like a toy. Thursday's #85: VIA 6427 F40PH VIA 3460 LRC coach VIA 3342 LRC coach Locos - 1 Cars - 2 ...
David Graham
cdlu@...
Oct 2, 2004 4:44 pm
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Well here appears to be an obvious place for regulstory intervention without the need (God forbid) for BC or the Federal government to actually fund anything! ...
Carl Fowler
railvt@...
Oct 2, 2004 8:30 pm
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Did anyone on the list happen to catch the number of the F40 pulling VIA train #60 Mtl-Tor? Dan...
... between Rouge Hill ... the Turbo with ... to refer to the ... The dome windows were GONE by 1970. The footage was 99% likely filmed before the first...
... purchase and ... this? I presume that when Via decided it was going to remove RDCs from the corridor, it didn't want the added expense of keeping parts for...
Another interesting item is coach 8132... going back to its Amtrak roots.... this has much smaller windows than its Canadian bretheren.... Lloyd Leonard ... I...
VIA#1 Doncaster 9:46 EDT Sat Sep 25, 2004 6440 GPA 30c 6444 GPA 30c with AC 8609 8127 8112 8510 Burton M Bell M Amherst M 8507 Imperial Diner Fraser M Thomson...
From another Donald Scott posting to the CPR list: ================================= 17 January 1960 [Toronto] Union Station: ... Consist: Train # 22 for...
... If we go all the way back to its roots, this car was built for New York Central in 1946, though Lloyd is correct that it was later owned by Amtrak. The...
... No dining car between Detroit and Chicago? Or was a New York Central diner substituted for the CPR diner? Might this train have been combined with a New...
... I have no special expertise in this matter, but it seems that many companies in the transport business place a high value on having a relatively uniform...
... <cdlu@r...> wrote: ... purchase and ... this? ... *** On Wed. 29 Sept. I rode #85 from Toronto to Stratford and #88 return. There were approximately 20...
I think #24 would have been #34 that ran from Toronto to Ottawa through Peterboro. J Lade ... Trucks) ... sleeper ... Trucks) ... Central ... Central ... ...
... (someone does, ... Toronto on ... train). ... CHATEAU car ... should be for ... Montreal. ... the ... GROVE ... certainly ... they ... to be ... day use, ...
David In your message you refer to "line numbers" -- could you expand a little bit about the concept for the benefit of those of us who have to try 100...
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