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Date: 11/17/18 14:08
From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: gcm

From the eastbound SC.
About 120 miles west of Winnipeg.
Dec 1980

Gary

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Date: 11/17/18 14:32
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: refarkas

Good shot. I can almost feel the cold this image captures.
Bob

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Date: 11/17/18 15:26
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: spdaylight

Back in an era where cars were almost the size of boats . . .

Craig
mcmrailvideos.com

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Date: 11/17/18 18:05
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: eminence_grise

Brandon North was quite some distance from Brandon MB, which is on the CP main line. Probably the taxi in the image has bought passengers from Brandon. The "Canadian" operated through Brandon in the years the "Super Continental" operated through Brandon North, however passengerrs for cities such as Saskatoon and Edmonton may have found the CN route more convenient.

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Date: 11/17/18 19:18
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: 4489

spdaylight Wrote:
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> Back in an era where cars were almost the size of
> boats . . .
>
> Craig
> mcmrailvideos.com

I have seen smaller boats.............

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Date: 11/17/18 19:42
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: feclark

What a nice, seasonally-appropriate post, and an obscure location, too.
Fred

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Date: 11/17/18 21:21
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: Willie-J

As a child of 5 years old I went from Brandon to Brandon North in the summer of 1945 with my parents. My father's younger brother had returned to Canada from Europe and was passing through on a troop train en route to Vancouver. We did manage to see him. There was much love shared during the breif station stop.

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Date: 11/18/18 02:40
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: andersonb109

I think Brandon North is still a flag stop on The Canadian. But I don't recall seeing anything other than a small VIA shelter there. 

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Date: 11/18/18 05:07
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: Thumper

Also known as a Detroit Land Barge;
first applied to late 1950's Cadillac
and funeral service vehicles.

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Date: 11/18/18 05:49
Re: From the Super Continental - station at Brandon North
Author: DrawingroomA

andersonb109 Wrote:
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> I think Brandon North is still a flag stop on The
> Canadian. But I don't recall seeing anything other
> than a small VIA shelter there. 

A few years ago VIA cancelled the conditional stop at Brandon North. I remember the small shelter there. One of our friends said it wasn't much bigger than an outhouse.

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