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Re: Canadian Lines...
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:47:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David K. Z. Harris writes:
> Hey, Vancouver and Alberta Clubs...what are you waiting for? ;-)
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> I just got home from a trip across central Canada, mainly by rail.
> (Ottawa - Toronto - Winnipeg - Edmonton - Jasper - Banff - Calgary!)
So why didn't you stop and say hi? ;)
> 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... :-(
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. :/
> 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? ;-)
Not off hand, but I betcha there's some people in the local modelers club that
do, and we got on OK with those guys at the show.
James
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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) (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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