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Re: VIA Ocean - trouble ahead

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:13 pm ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA Ocean - trouble ahead ¦  Replies: 10 ¦  Views: 2898

Uhhh... Nobody wants to try to sleep or even be in a park car next to a pair of 645's doing their rumble in the middle of the night.

Do they

Re: First Nations blockade causing disruptions

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:59 pm ¦  Forum: Canadian Railfan ¦  Topic: First Nations blockade causing disruptions ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 4586

Too bad that Canadian railway infrastructure has largely been weakened to the point where re-routes aren't feasible in most circumstances. For example, the oil tanker traffic from western Canada/USA has absolutely no business being towed through the GTA and onto the Corridor destined for Montreal's ...

Re: Major Class 1 Construction in past 50 years

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Sat Nov 16, 2019 11:33 pm ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: Major Class 1 Construction in past 50 years ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 3752

BC Rail -- Tumbler Ridge Subdivision, northern BC. per Wikipedia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Rail) In the early 1980s the railway built a new line and acquired another. The Tumbler Ridge Subdivision, an 82-mile (132 km) electrified branch line, opened in 1983 to the Quintette and Bullmoose mi...

Re: Thermal Expansion

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Sat Nov 16, 2019 11:16 pm ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: Thermal Expansion ¦  Replies: 4 ¦  Views: 2502

Wouldn't they unexpand when the temperatures return to normal? Never heard of 'heating' rail when its installed. There are systems that create the welds for joining sections of continuously welded rail, that involve thermite. But there's no machine that installs rails "hot". High temperatu...

Re: CN to cut 1600 jobs

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Sat Nov 16, 2019 11:15 pm ¦  Forum: Canadian National-Illinois Central and Grand Trunk Western ¦  Topic: CN to cut 1600 jobs ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 1800

No surprise. The VIA trains run very consistently on-time and even early these days, which means that traffic must be down a reasonable amount, at least in Western Canada. Really unfortunate for a lot of people as the staffing ramp-up at CN has made for some absolutely meteoric ascensions from Condu...

Re: VIA Rail and the O-Train

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:30 am ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA Rail and the O-Train ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 2599

NaugyRR wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:15 am Are most larger VIA stations styled that way?
Lol, no. Practically every VIA station is dramatically different.

Re: Rocky Mountaineer schedules

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:31 pm ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: Rocky Mountaineer schedules ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 11720

There are no intermediate or service stops. So why would there be a timetable?

Kamloops-Vancouver, you can go extrapolate that using the VIA schedule. But usually the RM is treated fairly well, and the directional running corridor through the Fraser Canyon usually isn't too delay prone.

Re: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:03 am ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 5769

Yup. VIA isn't short on dining cars. They just need the older ones brought up to modern standards so its a dignified experience for the customers, and a reasonably healthy and safe workplace for the staff.

Re: Multimark Engines

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:47 pm ¦  Forum: Canadian Pacific Railway ¦  Topic: Multimark Engines ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 2180

Moose Jaw. But they're not long for this world...

Re: Via white river threatened?

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:56 pm ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA White Rver train threatened? ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 2458

mdvle wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:43 pm Only passenger service up there will be the Canadian on CN, and Sudbury - White River on CP.
http://www.agawatrain.com/

Re: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:39 am ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 5769

There isn't much information on VIA's site. This is the description of the refurbishment: "Kitchen reconfiguration and modernization of the dining area." The four being refurbished have left VIA short of dining cars. The two from the Churchill trains have been used on the Canadian this su...

Re: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:26 am ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 5769

Just wondering if anybody has heard how the refurbishment of these 4 diners is going??? I'm taking a trip on the "Canadian" in February 2020... The Canadian's diners were refurbished 5-7 years ago or so, and are in excellent shape. Aside from tweaks such as LED lighting, I doubt there wil...

Re: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars

 by Mark0f0 ¦  Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:20 am ¦  Forum: Canadian Passenger Operations: AMT, Go Transit, VIA, etc. ¦  Topic: VIA announces refurbishment of dining cars ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 5769

They are only refurbishing four (4) dining cars? Wiki suggests their roster includes 13 dining cars, what do they plan to do with the remaining nine (9) dining cars? ~6 are already refurbished and are in operation on The Canadian. The "plan" appears to be to convert The Ocean to Budd equi...

Cynically I suspect this is a way to try and woo Peterborough voters without spending any real money given the long lasting dream to boost Peterborough real estate prices by making commuting to Toronto viable. Though it could backfire if the people in the communities that currently get VIA service ...

I know with this fare you don't have a choice of rooms? But we could wait till about two months out and try and save almost $1000? There's almost always a Black Friday or similar sale that's valid in most of the off-season. That generates a discount that is just as good in most cases as the Sleeper...

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