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Re: Canadian Lines...
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Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:49:31 GMT
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David Zonker Harris wrote:
> 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!)
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> 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!
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> Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) - almost ALL RED! :-)
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> Canadian National Railway (CN) - red, black, and white
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> VIA passenger service (VIA) - yellow, grey, and blue
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> The commuter trains in Toronto (GO) - white and green
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> 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. :-)
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> 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.
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> The hardest parts to take were;
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> 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... :-(
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
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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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