VIA 15 passing CN 307 Crowes Mills Road near Truro 16 May 2004
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Personally I too prefer the Stainless Steel cars and now rarely travel on trains that do not have a dome car. That is why the Chaleur (Montreal Gaspé train) is my favourite VIA train. As a bonus it has a real dining car with excellent food at very reasonable prices.
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Now that is an Excellent shot!! Sure was going fast for getting up that nasty hill, I love it
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Still the best way to cross the country!
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Excellent!
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that was Crowes Mills where I call home
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@rrpics So it's like i said, nobody runs a 6000 HP unit in canada
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VIA normally assigns one 3000 hp engine per 10 cars. The Ocean is normaly between 12 and 20 cars and so has two 3000 hp F40PH-2 locomotives (most of which have now been rebuilt with separate HEP generators).
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@rrpics I didn't realize that via found it necessary to run a 6000 HP engine, seems a bit overkill
Good video but cut short, imo. Cutting out part of the VIA's approach to the crossing wasn't necessary, and it would have been nice to see the CN get back on the main and up to speed afterwards.
Aezkt 1 year ago
This is just a short clip because of the upload time. I actually filmed it all and if IIRC it is all on the DVD.
rrpics 6 months ago