smallspy
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Correct - low axle count in concert with wheels that aren't clean.
RDCs were brought up several times, not the least of which by me. Go back and read.
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roger1818
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Agreed!
Mihairokov
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Halifax VIA terminal:
PL1
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That seems quite lovely! Bright and airy.
kEiThZ
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Pretty. But.... Do they even have a vending machine?
Mihairokov
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Friend they hardly have trains.
micheal_can
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I can only image the amount of Canadians coming through here and other stations in the area to board the ships to defend our freedom.
Admiral Beez
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Slow at it is, I still love the fact that with just two connections one can travel 5,400 km from this station to Pacific Central Station in Vancouver. You’ll need five to six days to do it, so bring a book.
It’s too bad the Canadian doesn’t run from Halifax to Vancouver. Was that ever an offering?
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Urban Sky
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Not that I am aware of. You always had to transfer at least in Montreal…
Urban Sky
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I actually remember a time where there was a sleeper train leaving Berlin-Lichtenberg station every Saturday afternoon and splitting into 8 different groups of through car, one of them terminating some 5,130 km later in Novosibirsk:Slow at it is, I still love the fact that with just two connections one can travel 5,400 km from this station to Pacific Central Station in Vancouver. You’ll need five to six days to do it, so bring a book.
Sibirjak - Wikipedia
I always wanted to take it, but it got unfortunately discontinued in December 2013…
Northern Light
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I don't know that Wikipedia's list is comprehensive, (named passenger trains in Canada, current and historical)
List of named passenger trains of Canada - Wikipedia
But looking at all the trains w/Vancouver as a listed terminal point, I don't see any destinations further east than Montreal.
CN/VIAs Super-Continental appears to have been the last of these to run, ending service in 1990
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There are some curious terminal points in that list.
Yarmouth, NS was a big one..
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Port Arthur, ON (now part of Thunder Bay)
Also while there are several city pairs you might imagine from a more robust era of rail (Toronto-Buffalo, Montreal-Boston, Cleveland Toronto, Halifax-Boston)...
I find it interesting to see several pairs originate in Minneapolis MN.
Urban Sky
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If even Tom Box is not aware of such through trains, I believe it can be safely assumed that no such trains ever operated:
lenaitch
Senior Member
Yarmouth: It was the terminus of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and their ran their own steamships to US ports.I don't know that Wikipedia's list is comprehensive, (named passenger trains in Canada, current and historical)
List of named passenger trains of Canada - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
But looking at all the trains w/Vancouver as a listed terminal point, I don't see any destinations further east than Montreal.
CN/VIAs Super-Continental appears to have been the last of these to run, ending service in 1990
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There are some curious terminal points in that list.
Yarmouth, NS was a big one..
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Port Arthur, ON (now part of Thunder Bay)
Also while there are several city pairs you might imagine from a more robust era of rail (Toronto-Buffalo, Montreal-Boston, Cleveland Toronto, Halifax-Boston)...
I find it interesting to see several pairs originate in Minneapolis MN.
Medicine Hat: Seeing as they used the names 'Kootenay' and 'Kettle Valley', I assume this was via the old Kettle Valley RR (CP) southern route through the Crowsnest Pass which - I think - connected to their mainline at Medicine Hat.
Port Arthur: There were still passenger ship connections to Sault Ste. Marie, the North Channel and Georgian Bay.
Minneapolis: I imagine it offered connections and access to the still-expanding US west. The CPR was about 20 years old but it didn't really connect to much back then except grain elevators.
micheal_can
Senior Member
Slow at it is, I still love the fact that with just two connections one can travel 5,400 km from this station to Pacific Central Station in Vancouver. You’ll need five to six days to do it, so bring a book.
It’s too bad the Canadian doesn’t run from Halifax to Vancouver. Was that ever an offering?
There was a time when the Ocean and Canadian/Super Continental met in Montreal, only requiring the one transfer. Then the Canadian met the Toronto Canadian in Sudbury and the Super Continental met the Toronto Super Continental in Capreol. That all stopped when they ripped up the tracks through the Ottawa Valley.
Back when rail ruled the land, the goal was to connect everywhere to everywhere. For example, before 17 was completed in the 1960s, you could take a train along the Superior coast. Now, no passenger train follows that entire route. And before anyone corrects me - it was not a no transfer trip. However, it could still be done, much like the original idea behind going between Vancouver and Halifax.I don't know that Wikipedia's list is comprehensive, (named passenger trains in Canada, current and historical)
List of named passenger trains of Canada - Wikipedia
But looking at all the trains w/Vancouver as a listed terminal point, I don't see any destinations further east than Montreal.
CN/VIAs Super-Continental appears to have been the last of these to run, ending service in 1990
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There are some curious terminal points in that list.
Yarmouth, NS was a big one..
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Port Arthur, ON (now part of Thunder Bay)
Also while there are several city pairs you might imagine from a more robust era of rail (Toronto-Buffalo, Montreal-Boston, Cleveland Toronto, Halifax-Boston)...
I find it interesting to see several pairs originate in Minneapolis MN.
evandyk
Senior Member
Half a million troops one way, then a million immigrants and refugees the other way in the next 25 years, including my parents and grandparents.