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Canadian Railroads > The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018Date: 09/15/18 06:03 The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 As I have reported we rode The Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver from July 26th to July 30th on the revised ex tented schedule. I shot approximately 1500 photos of the trip and have been working on them ever since. I have finally gotten them completed to post. This was the best regularly scheduled overnight train I have taken since the 1960's.
1: The adventure begins at Toronto Union Station with the big board showing on-time departure 2: at the boarding gate 3: Our Park Car Glacier Park ready for departure at 10:00 PM Date: 09/15/18 06:08 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 3: My other half Wendy boarding the Glacier Park. We departed on time at 10:00 PM went approximately 4 or 5 miles and went into emergency due to a trespasser almost getting hit. The delay was approximately a half hour
4. The bullet round end lounge in our Park Car 5. Drinks served at the Park Car bar. Date: 09/15/18 06:11 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 7: Backing on the wye north of Toronto with the crew calling the signals from the rear lounge
8: Museum at Capreol 9: Station stop at Capreol Date: 09/15/18 06:14 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 10: Locomotive at Capreol we Arrived at 9:00 AM approximately 3 1/2 hours late
11: Coach on The Canadian 12: Open section on a sleeper Date: 09/15/18 06:20 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 15: Lounge of a Skyline Dome car. NOTE: no crew members spread out over two tables like Amtrak
16: Meeting a CN freight 17: Believe this was Gogama in the rain at 12:16 PM almost 4 hours late Date: 09/15/18 06:23 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 Date: 09/15/18 06:26 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 21: Veal Chop cooked on-board... delicious
22. Another meet with CN 23: Winnipeg at 10:30 AM 2 1/2 Hours late Date: 09/15/18 06:31 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 24: The Canadian at Winnipeg
25: Washing windows... when was the last time any train in the US had this done? 26: Departing Winnipeg at 11:48 AM Date: 09/15/18 06:36 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 28: Rivers
29: CN meet on the prairies 30: Station stop at Melville at 6:45 PM approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes late Date: 09/15/18 06:38 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 Date: 09/15/18 06:41 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 34, 35, 36
Switching cars onto The Canadian at Edmonton; Arrived at 1:15 PM and departed at 3:15 PM approximately 5 hours late Date: 09/15/18 06:43 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 37: Prestige passengers in the rear lounge
38 and 39 AAAHHH the Rockies. Sorry about the quality but the light was almost gone. Date: 09/15/18 06:51 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 40: Jasper at 10:30 PM 6 hours and 30 minutes late
41: Kamloops north 8:00 AM 2 1/2 hours late 42: Thompson River Canyon Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/18 03:34 by RWS4449. Date: 09/15/18 06:53 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 43- 45 Thompson River Canyon Spectacular!!!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/18 03:34 by RWS4449. Date: 09/15/18 06:55 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 Date: 09/15/18 06:58 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 49: Passing a CN freight along the Thompson River at Basque
50: Thompson River Canyon 51: CP checking out a trestle in a high rail bucket truck Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/18 03:35 by RWS4449. Date: 09/15/18 07:01 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 52: Thompson River Canyon
53: Thompson River Canyon 54: Crossing the Fraser River at New Westminster Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/18 03:36 by RWS4449. Date: 09/15/18 07:04 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 55: Passing Vancouver sky train
56: Vancouver wye. Arrived at the wye 1 1/2 hours early. Hit the station bumping post exactly on time at 6:00 PM 57: Via Rail Vancouver locomotive shop Date: 09/15/18 07:09 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: RWS4449 58: Arriving at Pacific Central Station Vancouver at 6:00 PM
59. This train was so good I don't want to leave!! 59: A visit to the rail museum at Squamish to see our friend David Walmsley's PV "Pullman Spirit" David rebuilt this car single handed taking over 20 years Date: 09/15/18 07:09 Re: The Canadian Toronto-Vancouver 07-26 to 07-30-2018 Author: andersonb109 So the dinner wasn't served out of a cardboard box! What were they thinking!
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