Bordercollie
Senior Member
Shortening one consist to make another one longer is kinda pointless unless you are going to J the short ones together.
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cplchanb
Senior Member
Thats honestly cringe... all this charades for no reason. This does nothing for indigenous rights.
Its like singing the national anthem in grade school.
ManyQuestions
Active Member
I only noticed it the second announcement it seemed particularly uninspired. I may be recalling wrong but I think it was just “VIA Rail recognizes the traditional territories its trains operate in.” Not as lame as the Victorian railways prerecorded land acknowledgements but IMO if something is worth doing it’s worth doing well.
ManyQuestions
Active Member
I’m surprised it’s just one car removed, I thought it would be at two to make a 7 car venture as discussed prior. This train doesn’t seem like the worst to shorten as I believe it only cycles Montreal-Ottawa once a day as the first train out of Montreal and last from Ottawa. Would be nice if it was a later departure from Ottawa though, could make a 3 car train make more sense assuming there is still another 6pm departure. Train 38 was busy leaving at 6pm when I last used it.
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Trains 31/38 are likely standard 5 car venture sets with one business class car unused.
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micheal_can
Senior Member
Everywhere is doing it as thy think it is meaningful, and part of the Truth and Reconciliation. Honestly,I take it as no different that they do they announcements in both languages.
ManyQuestions
Active Member
I just learned that the HEP2 set from train 33 turns into train 47 and continues to Toronto. Train 26, the return HEP2 journey back from Ottawa to Quebec at ~2pm must be a different set with the same 2business 3economy configuration.
From looking at traincar.info, it seems that later in the week train 31 has a four car venture but no return trips to Montreal have only four cars. I suspect this means that there is just a blocked car on train 31 that is reopened in Ottawa.
From looking at traincar.info, it seems that later in the week train 31 has a four car venture but no return trips to Montreal have only four cars. I suspect this means that there is just a blocked car on train 31 that is reopened in Ottawa.
ManyQuestions
Active Member
Train 50 from Toronto to Ottawa was another 5 car HEP2 set. It had one business class car blocked until Ottawa and hence showed up as a 4 car set on train car.info
p_xavier
Active Member
It is and is greatly against my values and pisses me off. We're seeing what these land acknowledgments end up doing in BC.
nfitz
Superstar
Indigenous rights are against your values?
Perhaps not be discussing your "values" here?
Trackside_Treasure
Active Member
Do we have a visual on train 31? Ventures that look like one Business Class car is missing on traincar dot info are usually lighter-patronized trains with the normal six-unit length but only one Business Class car is used/staffed.
ManyQuestions
Active Member
I believe it is a 5 car / 1 engine train with one business car unstaffed. That was what happened with train 50 today. I misinterpreted the train car.info site. Will amend my prior post.
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Train 66 was running 2 P42s and 7 LRC coaches today. Which is a shame since a 32-axle Venture set could have run that rotation instead, freeing up the LRCs and P42s to run shorter trains without speed restrictions.
Bordercollie
Senior Member
Do they really know what they are doing?
ManyQuestions
Active Member
Train 26 is confirmed a 5 car double ended HEP2 set. It has one unrefurbished car with the old red seats! I haven’t seen these since pre-Covid and thought they all gone ! Much more comfortable than the newer seats of the refurbished cars and all seats have a window!
Bordercollie
Senior Member
No way. The LRC seats are much better