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Tom Box | 1 Jun 2011 02:53
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Gaspé trip report

I went to Gaspé and back last weekend.

VIA #60
dep Cobourg 2011 May 27, 12:58 (3 min late)
arr Montreal 17:57 (40 min late)

6440 - F40 locomotive
8609 - baggage car
4000 - HEP2 business class coach
4106 - HEP2 coach
8101 - HEP1 coach
4115 - HEP2 coach
8117 - HEP1 coach
4116 - HEP2 coach

We were stopped for about 45 min just east of Belleville.
When the train stopped, the service manager promptly
announced that it was because of a Canadian National signal
problem.  He also announced, for passengers transferring to
Toronto - Ottawa #44 at Kingston, that that train was behind
us and was stopped too, so there was no danger of missing the
connection.

We were on the north track through Kingston, where we met #55
on the south track.  This is somewhat unusual, in my experience,
as eastward trains usually run on the south track and westward
trains on the north at Kingston.

There was no announcement about connections to Montreal -
Quebec #26, but when a passenger enquired, she was told that
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Derek | 1 Jun 2011 03:47
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Re: Gaspé trip report


A great trip report, Tom. 

I felt as though I was along for the ride. 

Thanks so much. 

Derek Thompson
Toronto, Ontario

--- In Canadian-Passenger-Rail@..., Tom Box <tbox <at> ...> wrote:
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> I went to Gaspé and back last weekend.
> 
> VIA #60
> dep Cobourg 2011 May 27, 12:58 (3 min late)
> arr Montreal 17:57 (40 min late)
> 
> 6440 - F40 locomotive
> 8609 - baggage car
> 4000 - HEP2 business class coach
> 4106 - HEP2 coach
> 8101 - HEP1 coach
> 4115 - HEP2 coach
> 8117 - HEP1 coach
> 4116 - HEP2 coach
> 
> We were stopped for about 45 min just east of Belleville.
> When the train stopped, the service manager promptly
> announced that it was because of a Canadian National signal
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tim_hayman | 1 Jun 2011 04:15
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Re: VIA's no-holds policy: contact your MP

--- In Canadian-Passenger-Rail@..., "makuribu"
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> The Ocean, for instance, almost never arrives in Montreal on time, due to the track conditions in NB and the
long stretches of single track where VIA has to pull into sidings to wait for CN freights that are too long
for CN's sidings. 

This is why you'll notice that one of the exceptions in this policy is that Train 57 will be held up to a half
hour to maintain the connection with the Ocean. In the many trips I've made on the Ocean, we have been late a
number of times (although actually early on at least 2 occasions), but never so late as to miss that
connection. Just late enough to cut out the wait time in the station :P

Tim
Johnstown, ON
Kingston Sub MP110

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Walter - Beachville Ont | 1 Jun 2011 07:29
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OS: VIA 75, 83 and 78 tonight.


Nice warm weather so set trackside and caught all three.

http://railfan.thegrebs.com/VIA

Thanks for looking

Railpast

Walter Pfefferle

Beachville Ontario

Latest Photos:

 <http://railfan.thegrebs.com/Railpast-Photos>
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Tom Box | 1 Jun 2011 05:34
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Re: VIA's no-holds policy: contact your MP

"makuribu" <makuribu <at> ...> wrote:
>> The Ocean, for instance, almost never arrives in Montreal
>> on time, due to the track conditions in NB and the long
>> stretches of single track where VIA has to pull into sidings
>> to wait for CN freights that are too long for CN's sidings.

Tim Hayman wrote:
> This is why you'll notice that one of the exceptions in
> this policy is that Train 57 will be held up to a half hour
> to maintain the connection with the Ocean. In the many
> trips I've made on the Ocean, we have been late a number
> of times (although actually early on at least 2 occasions),
> but never so late as to miss that connection.

Here's my admittedly very scattered firsthand experience with
the westward Ocean and Chaleur's arrival at Montreal Central
Station:

2011 May 29 ____ 09:10 (5 min late)
2011 March 19 __ 09:39 (34 min late)
2010 July 11 ___ 09:20 (15 min late)
2010 April 22 __ 08:35 (6 min late)
2009 August 10 _ 08:24 (7 min late)
2009 June 7 ____ 09:03 (46 min late)
2008 Sept 28 ___ 08:27 (8 min early)
2008 Aug 11 ____ 09:45 (1 h 48 min late)
2008 May 25 ____ 08:58 (43 min late)
2008 March 23 __ 11:03 (2 h 48 min late)
2007 August 20 _ 08:10 (5 min early)
2007 May 22 ____ 08:43 (28 min late)
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Will | 1 Jun 2011 07:26
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Re: VIA's no-holds policy: contact your MP


On 2011-05-29, at 5:49 PM, j_shron wrote:

> Editorial comment: The situation described above strongly points to the need
> for VIA to revisit its policy for holding connecting trains. VIA's current policy does permit holding the
last train of the day leaving Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and London for connecting trains; in Montreal,
VIA will
> hold Toronto-bound Train 57 for up to 30 minutes for a late connecting train arriving from the Maritimes.
But what happened on April 22 in Toronto was unworthy of VIA and compromising of VIA's carefully earned
image of a customer-oriented transportation company. The inflexibility of the
> new, more stringent policy is not acceptable from a user's perspective.
> TRANSPORT ACTION ONTARIO NEWSLETTER MARCH-APRIL 2011

Perhaps you should submit a question for Via's annual meeting about it:
<http://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail/our-company/annual-public-meeting>

They may at least say why the policy is in place or have some details on it. 

Will 

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FortSheppard | 1 Jun 2011 08:11
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OS: VIA #2, Port Coquitlam, BC, May 31, 2011, DETOUR

OS: VIA #2, Port Coquitlam, BC, May 31, 2011, 21:45.
Detour due to temporary Mission Bridge outage.

VIA F40PH-2D 6442
VIA F40PH-2  6414 Lotto Quebec

Baggage 8604
Coach 8143
Coach 8139
Skyline 8516
Diner Frontenac
Skyline 8503
Sherwood Manor
Blair Manor
Monck Manor
Bliss Manor
Glass-roofed Coach 1720
Brock Manor
Hearne Manor
Skyline 8501
Diner Annapolis
Amherst Manor
Bayfield Manor
Douglas Manor
Kokanee Park

Total 19 cars
Observed

Corwin
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bindar02 | 1 Jun 2011 05:02
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#2 ex-Wpg May 31

Boarded in Edmonton last night. Running about an hour late today, cut to 40 mins at Wpg. Here's the consist,
for those who care:

Unit 6416
Unit 6427
baggage 8605
coach 8118
coach 8144
Skyline 8506
Diner Louise 8413
Skyline 8511
210 Manor Wolfe 8342
211 Thompson 8341
212 Osler 8337
213 Stuart 8340
214 Rogers 8338
(Panorama dropped at Edm)NHL
215 Cornwall 8317
216 Chateau Brule 8203
217 Vercheres 8228 (deadhead/staff)
Skyline 8517
Diner Kent 8412
220 Manor Mackenzie 8335
221 Cabot 8313
222 Fraser 8327
239 Tweedsmuir Park 8711

Winnipeg alive with fans celebrating return of NHL. Rain, windy and cool, but they're out on the streets shouting.

Bindar
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bruce | 1 Jun 2011 04:15
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another rocket video

Spring has sprung, and the water is high on the Bulkley sub. So time
lapse included in this version of 16 tons recorded on board 6 recently.

http://youtu.be/hLYGutVU5ww

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Nathan Brown | 1 Jun 2011 15:57
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Rapido's Canadian

Hi All,
In light of he Canadian making its way across the country, I feel a little left out.  Not to dispute the
history of the Canadian and how it got to where it is today, but I feel there should have been an option to 
atleast see a modern version done.  I was waiting with my 25% deposit in hopes to hear that a modern version
will be done.  I am asking all that are on this list that model modern or not and would like to see a 
modern Canadian with FP40's to let Jason know.  I would love to have one of these and am willing to pay for a
modern version...not much would 
have to change to do this
 

Cheers,
Nathan Brown
Cambridge, Ont.

Home of B&B Railways - Connecting the North, one rail at a time!

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