Canadian Railroads > Ontario Northland Christmas Train

Here's something that hasn't been mentioned here yet.
http://www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/index.php/passenger-trains-and-buses/holiday-train

Anybody ready to drive up to Hearst now?

Jim

That should put one in the Christmas spirit!

And for those of you who missed it on the ONR website, that *is* the ONR's newest locomotive paintscheme shown on the website. "Arrow" or "Point" I guess. On the positive note, they dropped that silly "O.N. Rail" Moniker, and went traditional with "Ontario Northland" on the side of the long hood. On the negative note, that's a LOT of yellow. The scheme looks better on the 1809, the GP38-2 that has been painted, where the white arrow is right behind the cab.
Anyone want to compare the late 1970's early 80's British Rail paintscheme and this current ONR scheme? I think they may be very close!

If you're interested, you can see some pretty good in-house video about the ONR here:
http://www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/index.php/video-who-we-are

I guess they got over 10cm of snow yesterday up at Kapuskasing, that would certainly help add to the Christmas spirit!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/11 18:49 by DrLoco.

Dr Loco

To quote Beavis and Butthead, "that video totally kicks a__!" I happened upon the Christmas train link while looking at the schedules for making a circle trip from Toronto to Moosonee on the train and back by bus to Timmins and Sudbury next Fall. I have never rode the Ontario Northland passenger trains but did ride an Ontario Northland bus from Sudbury to Toronto years ago on Hwy 69.

Jim