There were a few Sleepers on Ferries in North America:
Detroit-Windsor-Toronto-Montreal: Passengers would board Sleepers, Parlor Cars and Coaches in Grand Trunk Western's Brush St. Station on the Detroit waterfront and be ferried across the river to Windsor where the cars were attached to CN...
The original Dayniters were converted coaches with good window spacing. Later on some sleepers went through the conversion and you might find yourself next to a wall....No View!
Checking through some consist notes.....I caught a couple of 'Manors' on the Atlantics at Truro NS on August 2, 1981: 'Cornwall Manor' eastbound and 'Cameron Manor' (below) heading west.
As the early '80s progressed.....more exCP equipment appeared in the east and on the Ocean after the...
There's been some details posted in various railfan forums on the operation of the evacuation train. This was the 'Canadian' consist in Vancouver that had been ready to depart east on Nov. 15. Upon reaching Hope.....passengers were accommodated in three coaches. The train also stopped at...
It was the entire Canadian consist that that in Vancouver. CBC news coverage showed the Park Car backing into Pacific Central Station when the train returned from Hope last evening. Also interviews with passengers and some station interior shots.
VIA ran an evacuation train last evening on the 150km between Hope and Vancouver with 200 aboard. It used the Canadian set stuck in Vancouver and a joint effort of VIA, CN and BC Emergency Management...
VIA has announced that the Ocean's second weekly frequency will return on December 8th with departures from Montreal and Halifax now on Sunday and Wednesday. The third frequency will return in June 2022.
The second consist appears to be a hybrid like the first with a mixture of Renaissance and...
As a Canadian riding through the US...we'd be inspected by US agents but when we reentered Canada at Magantic or McAdam seldom did we ever see Canadian Customs. I know I had been 'Officially' admitted to the US but I've always wondered.....was I ever 'Officially' back in Canada??
'First' Last Run – 40 years ago today: November 14-15 1981
Most would say the last scheduled passenger trains in Maine until the launch of Amtrak's Downeaster in 2001 were Boston and Maine's RDC runs between Boston and Portland in 1965 or the Grand Trunk Portland-Montreal summer only...
Don't see anything online yet (there was a link to the virtual ceremony) but here's a nice video to CP's Remembrance Day ceremony a couple of years ago when the specially painted locomotives were unvailed:
Canadian Pacific will again this year continue with the tradition of honouring Veterans on Remembrance Day with the sounding of locomotive horns system wide at 11:01am
https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/remembrance-day
”The ceremony will include a CP locomotive whistle sounding at 11:01 a.m...
Careful now!! There are reports of Border Agents actually verifying your quarantine plan so I would at least have a reservation at a hotel...not just giving an address.
Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has a news conference at noon ET today on rail and air travel. Perhaps some updates...