... True, but the HEP2 cars are currently the most efficient cars in VIA's fleet - cheapest to maintain, least number of breakdowns. These are also the oldest...
Here is your Consist for #1 arriving into Vancouver New Years Day: 6437 6435 8305 Bayfield Manor (D/H) 8601 8120 8134 8503 Skyline poss. being used as Economy?...
Ottawa's Union Station was a "true" union station as of 1920 when CPR finally had all their trains going into it, but as of Jan. 1, 1941, the NYC moved out of...
The railway, the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia, has not been abandoned. The track conditions seemed comfortable to me when I rode the VIA Bras d'Or ...
... Thanks Tom. The route that Conrail trains used would have been different than what NYC used as I remember that CN and PC did some line swapping with the...
1957, May 25- NYC ended passenger service between Malone Junction and Montreal (St. Lawrence & Adirondack Ry) 1961, April 1 - NYC abandoned from Malone...
Sunday 01-Jan-2006 Caught VIA #70 with P42DC #910 this morning approaching Sunnyside, ON at 10:04EST. http://tinyurl.com/bdush Have a Happy New Year!! Ron....
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... Via might as well buy them now, while they are still relatively cheap (less than $100,000 US apiece, unrebuilt, according to a few online sellers). If they...
Can anyone on this list comfirm that 6424 will be pulling Mtl-Quebec- Mtl Monday Jan 02/06? Thanks in advance for any info. Happy New Year Gerry Gaugl Ottawa...
According to Michel Tremblay of the Trains_en_Gaspesie group, the last two Chaleurs (leaving Montreal Dec 30 and Jan 1) have only gone as far as New Carlisle,...
I can remember in the sixties, & early seventies, when the train stopped at Winnipeg and everybody in the day coach running like crazy about 3 or 4 blocks to...
The Canadian Northern Railway station in Edmonton, built in 1905-1906, became a Union Station in 1909 when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway entered the City. It...
Okay.. I finally have had a chance to read the article. To me, this still says "railway use". This tracks will still be there for kids to cross. This...
... federal ... the ... would ... cheap ... into ... from ... How much would it cost to put the Ren cars which are currently in storage, into service?...
Hi list, As some of you may have noticed, I have not had the necessary time to take care of the list and pending moderated messages have been delayed and some...
... The NAR started operating all their passenger services out of Dunvegan yards effective Oct 31st,1965. They had already moved their express division from...
The NAR moved all their passenger trains to their new station in Dunvegan Yards effective Oct 31,1965. The express division moved from the CNR freight sheds...
A while back one of the members asked about New Year's Eve on board the Canadian. We have friends who, by coincidence, have been on the eastbound Canadian...
... of ... Interesting to see this being done. I wonder if this is now the practice on all Via domes. We have had some reports in the past of people who...
I received the February issue of TRAINS in the mail today and I thought Paul Ullrich's account of a 1975 trip from Vancouver to Winnipeg on CN's "Hippie Train"...
Blew through 10 minutes late with 7 LRC's and a VIA #1 Budd tacked on the end. http://railfan.thegrebs.com/VIA/via904l_001 Walter Pfefferle Ingersoll Ontario ...
Hi all, Gerry and I were travelling in and out of Montreal last week and we observed how VIA has started rationalizing their locomotive fleet. 70-60-57-75 is...
... Until recently, these trains had 7-car consists: 1 baggage, 1 service car and 5 coaches (usually two 7100s and three 7200s, I believe, but likely with only...
... also been on #2 on Dec 23. No comparison. The Dec 23 crew looked like a crew on the tail end of a very long trip. The train had a few Xmas decorations...
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