Stop at Montmorency Falls Park where passengers can choose to ride the cable cars.
1031_1034 at end of run. La Maibaie.
Charlevoix Train
Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec.
Operates on a portion of the former CN Murray Bay Subdivision.
1034-1031 one of two identical DMU motor-trailer sets built in Germany by Duwag-Waggon Union.Loading passengers at Baie Saint Paul, QC.10/02/2017
Not the first time!
D6d class 555 (20 engs. 540-559) Saxon Locomotive Building Co. Chemnitz, Germany #2842 2/1904 Became DAR 555 5/1937 and sold 3/1947 to Canadian Gypsum. Bud Laws Collection This style of tender with rounded back corners was standard on many classes of engines built in the very early 1900's
The Charlevoix Train website seems to indicate there is a shuttle between Quebec City and their station. Is there some reason why the train does not run all the way to the Via station?
When you consider the number of LRV's and DMU's built by Siemens or Stadtler now running in North America, such a scene is not that unusual.
It's the picture with the cable car that puts it over the top and besides I was looking for an excuse to post that German built steam locomotive #555 in operation on the CPR a long time ago,
While you're discussing the German-built locomotive, isn't there also a considerable amount of German-sourced rail installed up there around thar era? There will be an interesting story on how this Teutonic 'supply chain' came to be utilized ...
Is the first in a long time in North America with any regular service having couplers and buffers being the only connection between cars. How does the AAR like that use of non Janey or automatic couplers ? How will there be rescue when the first break down that will occurr sooner or later ?
Overmod While you're discussing the German-built locomotive, isn't there also a considerable amount of German-sourced rail installed up there around this time? There will be an interesting story on how this Teutonic 'supply chain' came to be utilized ...
While you're discussing the German-built locomotive, isn't there also a considerable amount of German-sourced rail installed up there around this time? There will be an interesting story on how this Teutonic 'supply chain' came to be utilized ...
A friend recently took an old chunk of rail home and cleaned it up. Looks like 60 lb and is marked "BOCHUM 1880"!
Somewhere in storage at the Alberta Railway Museum we have a couple chunks manufactured by Krupp, and I believe they have 1870s dates. I was told they were originally laid on the CPR's Pembina Branch, from Winnipeg to the American border.
I guess at the time there were no rail mills in Canada.
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blue streak 1 Is the first in a long time in North America with any regular service having couplers and buffers being the only connection between cars. How does the AAR like that use of non Janey or automatic couplers ? How will there be rescue when the first break down that will occurr sooner or later ?
The majority of VIA's Renaissance fleet still have European couplers, save for a few "transition cars" that have a Janney on one end.
SD70Dude blue streak 1 Is the first in a long time in North America with any regular service having couplers and buffers being the only connection between cars. How does the AAR like that use of non Janey or automatic couplers ? How will there be rescue when the first break down that will occurr sooner or later ? The majority of VIA's Renaissance fleet still have European couplers, save for a few "transition cars" that have a Janney on one end.
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"The Maritimes" is just fine for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland (which the unwashed pronounce as "newfynlund").
I can't post many of the names Westerners have for Quebec...
Are the many names applied to the Province or just to Quebec City?
The first time my wife and I were in the city, she stayed at the station (we were taking the next train back west), and I walked around a bit. In my peregrination, a came across two groups of English-speaking schoolgirls who were touring the city. At the monument to Wolfe and Montcalm, one of the girls asked "What language is that (on the monument)?" I told them, "Latin."--and I was asked not to tell the other group. When the second group came up, they wondered, and I told them that it was a language older than both French and English, and both languages have many words taken from it--and one girl (apparently thinking) said, "Latin."
On my way back to the station, with a map in my hand, I missed a turn, and stopped to determine how to find my way back to the street I wanted. A young quebecois (you put the cedille in) came up and asked if he come help. Using my 44 year-old high school French, I told him where I wanted to go (quand en Qebec, parle comme les quebecois parlent)--and he understood me! and showed me, on my map, how to go.
On our secod trip to the city, we spent a night at the Chateau Frontenac. I do not remember what the my wife wanted for dinner, but the garcon asked if she wanted canard--I should have told her that he would bring her duck (she had no desire to eat such), but did not, and she seemed to enjoy the meat. I never did tell her.
SD70DudeI can't post many of the names Westerners have for Quebec...
Around here they're speeding ticket revenue on the Interstate...
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It would be nice if Via would use such railcars to expand service in areas that only have one or two trains a day. Or no service at all like Peterborough and Havelock.
54light15 It would be nice if Via would use such railcars to expand service in areas that only have one or two trains a day. Or no service at all like Peterborough and Havelock.
VIA had several RDC's rebuilt inside and out a few years ago. So far they have only been used on specials and test runs.
They were tried on the Skeena route (Jasper-Prince Rupert) in winter, but it didn't work out. Then they got a few test trips out of London, ON.
If the Vancouver Island service is ever restored I imagine they will end up there.
SD70Dude "The Maritimes" is just fine for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland (which the unwashed pronounce as "newfynlund").
Deggesty Are the many names applied to the Province or just to Quebec City?
They apply to the Province, its people, and most of all its politicians.
Glad to hear you and your wife enjoyed your trips there, all kidding aside Quebec (the city and Province) truly is a beautiful and historic place.
ghCBNS SD70Dude "The Maritimes" is just fine for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland (which the unwashed pronounce as "newfynlund"). The Maritime Provinces are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island......but not Newfoundland.
Fair enough, guess I'm just so used to seeing everything past Thunder Bay lumped together as "down East".
The "Maritime Provinces" moniker probably predates Newfoundland's entry into Confederation too.
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