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Re: Canadian Lines...
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Date: 
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? ;-)
> 
>   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... :-(

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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  Canadian Lines...
 
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) (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)

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