by miklin
a lot of Chessie System & Penn Central traffic also on that line through the Clifton Hill (tourist trap) part of Niagara Falls Ontario at one time. Tommy-in old city of Niagara Falls Ont, (not the tourist trap), the old NYC bridge to the US is adjacent to the CN Bridge to Niagara Falls NY.
Maybe if you google map the VIA Station in Niagara Falls, it will give you the aerial view of both bridges.
We once rode the Rainbow also from St. Thomas Ontario (after taking VIA/CN to London the previous day and a Charterways bus to St. Thomas) to Fort Erie Ontario and then took the CP Rail Budd Car from Fort Erie back to Oakville (over the Penn Central-TH&B-CP Rail and CN!). Glad I got a chance to ride the Canada Southern. The Rainbow still used E units at that time and usually had an ex NH "County Series" combine in the consist. And as mentioned above, the train was sealed in Canada, except for the one car for "shorts and locals" which made the customs relatively easy. When the train was diverted to Toronto from Detroit and received the name change (Maple Leaf), VIA became responsible for the Nia Falls-Toronto crewing, etc. What is sad is how long is now wasted for Border Clearance (I believe almost two hrs is what is shown for Nia Falls Ontario to Nia Falls NY.) No preclearance is performed in Toronto like was done 40 years ago on Int'l runs!
Maybe if you google map the VIA Station in Niagara Falls, it will give you the aerial view of both bridges.
We once rode the Rainbow also from St. Thomas Ontario (after taking VIA/CN to London the previous day and a Charterways bus to St. Thomas) to Fort Erie Ontario and then took the CP Rail Budd Car from Fort Erie back to Oakville (over the Penn Central-TH&B-CP Rail and CN!). Glad I got a chance to ride the Canada Southern. The Rainbow still used E units at that time and usually had an ex NH "County Series" combine in the consist. And as mentioned above, the train was sealed in Canada, except for the one car for "shorts and locals" which made the customs relatively easy. When the train was diverted to Toronto from Detroit and received the name change (Maple Leaf), VIA became responsible for the Nia Falls-Toronto crewing, etc. What is sad is how long is now wasted for Border Clearance (I believe almost two hrs is what is shown for Nia Falls Ontario to Nia Falls NY.) No preclearance is performed in Toronto like was done 40 years ago on Int'l runs!
Mike Lindsay (Burlington Ont)