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Canadian Lines...
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Sat, 4 Nov 2000 03:43:41 GMT
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Hey, Vancouver and Alberta Clubs...what are you waiting for? ;-)
I just got home from a trip across central Canada, mainly by rail.
(Ottawa - Toronto - Winnipeg - Edmonton - Jasper - Banff - Calgary!)
OK, modeling The Canadian (VIA #001 and #002) in all silver would
be practically impossible. BUT, that said, you could do a LOT with
the more commons colors for the main lines!
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) - almost ALL RED! :-)
Canadian National Railway (CN) - red, black, and white
VIA passenger service (VIA) - yellow, grey, and blue
The commuter trains in Toronto (GO) - white and green
I'm really jazzed by some of the video and postcards I was able
to bring home from this trip, and I'm going to try to model some
VAI and CN rolling stock and locomotives. :-)
The only disappointment I had was that I couldn't visit train
yards on a photo safari. (Something about all of those signs posted
with the trespassing fines, due to the Safety Act of 1998... :-(
I've had much better luck across Europe and in Japan.
The hardest parts to take were;
1) Edmonton. The VIA trains pull through a freight yard, then
back up through half the yard, into a small station near
the airport. As we went through the yard, I saw some half-
height, no-cab power assist locomotives attached to other
regular deisels. Since they were CN, they were all black,
making the details *VERY* hard to see. Lots of other work
trains and snow equipment in the yard, but we were moving
moving too fast to see much, and then I couldn't walk across
train bridge (over the freeway) to wander around... :-(
2) Calgary. A great-looking train yard out near the airport,
with a locomotive works, and looks like a round house
(turntable) with square walls to the building...I really
wanted to get more details there. There was a second yard
on the east side of town, near the industrial area. We only
passed it on the freeway (on the bus), so no chance to get
the video camera out.
I did manage to find one great train book while I was there, with
pictures from around the world! I got it for $10 (Canadian!), so I
didn't even put a note in my Palm Pilot about the ISBN. After only
finding a few other books (about $50-60 Canadian), and no Canadian
train magazines, I knew I had to buy the book, and find a way to
carry it home. Email me if you might want the book titles. If a bunch
of folks ask, I'll post the info here later.
Say, isn't there a core of train folks in Edmonton? Didn't they just
have a gathering in a hanger near the airport? (Any of you have friends
in the rail community there, or firends in the RCMP? ;-)
-Z- http://www.baylug.org/zonker/
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| (...) Just 2 words: Old VIA Old VIA colours was _blue_ with a yellow stripe. Now, what does this bring to mind? To me, FP's, Blue window and door packs from S@H...and presto, one train! James (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) So why didn't you stop and say hi? ;) (...) There are some places from which good pics can be taken of the train yard, but they are none of them nearby. It takes a good telephoto and a tripod to get anything that isn't a long helicopter shot. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I'm working on CN and VIA as we speak. But I'm still waiting on my ton of train windows and doors to arrive... Bulk corrugated in all colours please LEGO... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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