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Jul 1, 2007 7:38 am
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The excitement seems to build everyday our train is running. A hard working volunteer crew is keeping us on schedule. Here are the latest photos. Just click on...
... VIA Rail Sponsors the Detroit Tigers. It made ... Baseball ... Track.'. ... I'm suprised to learn this but I am thinking that it is a good idea. I grew up...
... the ... was ... would ... on ... From a passing GO train at 0730 Friday, I could see Glenfraser on the back of an LRC train facing west at the TMC. At...
Did nobody see any of the VIA trains on the Kingston Sub on Saturday? If so, I'm sure I'm not the only person who would like to hear about them. For some...
Hey Jason, I didn't get any car numbers but #652 on Saturday had 9 cars, 8 LRC and a Chateau sleeper on the rear (probably deadheading) and #640 ran separately...
... I saw 53 from a distance and it had 10-11 LRC cars with P42 book-ends. Sorry I can't be more specific, I was hunting freight trains! ...John Reay,...
Yeah that's me coming through Bayview. Nice to see you caught it, I figured someone from the list would be there and see the wave. That's got to be one of my...
... Another good view of the railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls: http://eich.wsg.mcgill.ca/largeimages/i37302.jpg Suspension bridge, Niagara, ON, 1869 ...
The high-backed seats look like those latterly used in the ex-CN blue/yellow cars. Were they reused from those cars? Were those seats even original in the...
I managed to catch two interesting ones on Saturday, although I didn't manage to get car or unit numbers. Saw a combined 66/64 at Guildwood for a stop. P42 and...
The original bridges on the site were suspension bridges. The present, Whirlpool Rapids Bridge or Lower Steel Arch Bridge was built right on top of the last...
... blue/yellow ... original in ... Rail, ... The seats were completely rebuilt by Delta Furniture. Delta designed the Dayniter seats (I know they designed...
I always liked those Delta seats, thanks for putting a name to them. I actually found them more comfortable than the LRC seats - especially those on a...
... Don¹t you mean UNDER the suspension bridge, or perhaps AROUND it. I cannot see how it could have been built ³right on top². I have some good pictures...
69 left Kingston on time. 668/648 left Belleville 50 minutes late, and were 65 min. late by the time they arrived in Kingston. 668 had P42DC 970 and 5 LRC...
Caught 76 with 902 bouncing through Lihou running about 30 minutes late. http://railfan.thegrebs.com/VIA/via902a_002 Walter Ingersoll Ontario Web Site...
(Thanks to a posting by Bernard Babin on the Trains en Gaspésie list for this news.) It appears the line used by Via Rail's 'Chaleur' will be saved. The...
Yes, the investment in the Matapédia - Gaspé line is great news, that has gotten strangely little attention beyond Gaspésie so far. Even stranger is the...
... Actually, that was at the very bottom of the news article posted to the other list. I didn't notice it till I read it again! Ricky Leong Calgary...
... I was on the #1 that left Toronto on June 26. It had three coaches, with 121 coach passengers leaving Toronto. I talked to several. All whom I met were...
... You don't have to convince me of that. Over the past six years, my son Andrew and I, with the help of Bytown Railway Society members like Mark Walton, have...
Thank you to everyone who posted consist info and photos from the Kingston Sub on the weekend. I'm sure I speak for many on this list when I say that we'd like...
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