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.
|
|
|
- Thread starter ehlow
- Start date
micheal_can
Senior Member
My grandparents and aunt also came through here. Interestingly,I can still retrace their entire rail journey in Canada.
evandyk
Senior Member
I actually don't know for a fact that my parents took the train, I've never asked them. But I think pretty much everyone who came via Halifax to Toronto (or Thunder Bay of all places in my dad's family's case) took the train.
micheal_can
Senior Member
Most likely it was all they could afford.
evandyk
Senior Member
Maybe. All though in my mom's case, my two oldest uncles had come by themselves a few years earlier, so it's possible they made other arrangements. I'll ask her next time I see them.
micheal_can
Senior Member
For shorter trips,a bus may have worked, but going into Ontario/Quebec, as in the case of my family, it was overall much better to take the train.
evandyk
Senior Member
On this topic, this is fun:
pier21.ca
ALL ABOARD! | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
In the years immediately after the Second World War, transportation companies published children’s food menus abroad their ships and trains. In order to attract prospective travellers, transportation companies realized that illustrating the services they offered and the travel experience...
micheal_can
Senior Member
I have been to that museum, twice. I feel every Canadian that is not indigenous should visit it in their lifetime. We were all immigrants once.On this topic, this is fun:
ALL ABOARD! | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
In the years immediately after the Second World War, transportation companies published children’s food menus abroad their ships and trains. In order to attract prospective travellers, transportation companies realized that illustrating the services they offered and the travel experience...
Urban Sky
Senior Member
Definitely a fascinating aspect of Canadian history (which ranks high on my personal to-visit list!) and a reminder of how closely it is tied to its railways!On this topic, this is fun:
ALL ABOARD! | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
In the years immediately after the Second World War, transportation companies published children’s food menus abroad their ships and trains. In order to attract prospective travellers, transportation companies realized that illustrating the services they offered and the travel experience...
Yet, this would probably be more on topic in this thread:
General railway discussions
I have a feeling the MPI brand is dead, so any new locos reverting to GE, such as their P47AC proposal https://vergarastudio.com/index.php/projects/ge-p47ac-passenger-locomotive.html Meanwhile electrek reports on a UK trial of a Hitachi battery intercity trainset. Mind you, the distances...
dowlingm
Senior Member
Re the long distance locomotive replacement. I posted the Merx announcement on railroad.net and it raised a suggestion I hadn’t contemplated - without sight of specifications and thus VIA priorities, couldn’t VIA simply order Tier 4 freight units, and have HEP provided by generators on baggage or service cars? This would even open the option of having the host railroad provide the power directly. Does Canadian exceed 70mph on any part of its route at present?
cplchanb
Senior Member
the gearing of freight vs passenger locos are different. these locos will be used everywhere other than corridor so it needs to be rated for passenger line speeds.
micheal_can
Senior Member
Yes, parts of the Canadian route does see it reach 90mph. It is rare that it does, but it still can.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
Rumours shared on groups.io claim that VIA is considering to procure generator cars:
KevinT
Senior Member
Rumours shared on groups.io claim that VIA is considering to procure generator cars:
I think it would have been great if the cab cars for the Chargers on the corridor had each had an emergency genset in them that could power any one car in the consist in case of an emergency to keep the lights on, HVAC going, and the toilets flushing. I know there'd be procurement and ongoing maintenance costs to that, but the alternative has already proven to be ugly on two occasions, and we haven't even had them that long. Hopefully there's been lessons learned for the long-haul fleet procurement.
lenaitch
Senior Member
Or for work. My step-mother and her two sisters were from near London area and immigrated as war brides. She came to Toronto, one went to PEC and the third to Manitoulin Island. That must have been a bit of a cultural shock!