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Re: VIA dome cars replaced by very colourful Eurotrash
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lugnet.loc.ca
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Fri, 30 May 2003 21:53:05 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.ca, Gail Meagher wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've always loved the stainless steel VIA trains, with dome (aka bar)
> cars, that run within sight of my home in Halifax. When I saw an
> article in my local paper about Via replacing them with a new fleet of
> "Renaissance" passenger cars, I was saddened, but thought, here's an
> opportunity to model some new trains. Then I saw them. They wouldn't
> let me onto the platform to photograph the cars, so I had to take some
> pictures standing on a picknic table in the Superstore parking lot.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=44892
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> The cars were originally built to go through the channel tunnel, and are
> narrower than other trains. This is particularly obvious in the picture
> showing the current VIA engine. VIA had a press release about them when
> they first bought them.
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> http://www.viarail.ca/corporate/en_bkgdr_20011116_renaissance_passenger_cars.html
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> The colours around the windows are darker and lighter than the 'teal'
> colour that LEGO has made (used in Rock Raiders sets among others). The
> roof and lower part of the train are dark blue, and the stripes are
> yellowy-orange.
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> They are being phased in on the Halifax to Montreal run starting in
> July, and by the end of the year they will be the only thing running
> here. Sigh.
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> Gail Meagher
Here's a few more links on that topic that I searched out:
http://www.viarail.ca/pdf/factsheets/en_renaissance.pdf
http://www.viarail.ca/images/communiques/bkgdr_20011116_new_loco.jpg
http://www.viarail.ca/corporate/en_bkgdr_20011116_new_locomotives.html
http://www.viarail.ca/corporate/en_bkgdr_20011116_renaissance_passenger_cars.html
That's too bad about the dome cars. I fondly remember travelling through
the Rockies as a kid, viewing the mountains and especially in awe of the
tunnels as we looked out through the dome.
Tim Strutt
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