Comments on: Early VIA and the daily FAST transcontinentals. Enroute to Barrie and beyond, one-two hundred fifty of a second is insufficient to freeze capture ex CP Rail FP-9A #1413. Daily FAST VIA Rail #1 on the CN Newmarket, with only weeks remaining *, May 12, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko Interesting Early VIA Rail maintained CP Rail’s daily FAST service, albeit slowed by the re-routing onto CN Newmarket (Union to CN Boyne to CP Rail Reynolds) and the divergent route into Winnipeg (to access the ex CNorR Winnipeg station), VIA’s April 1979 Canadian: Toronto to Banff, 50:10 (two nights) and 67:35 to Vancouver (three nights). [ CP Rail circa 1975 The Canadian timekeeping was FAST, with first generation aging F's, 47:30 Toronto to Banff and 64:55 to Vancouver ]. Noteworthy * The June 17, 1979 timetable: re-routed the daily VIA #1 & 2 CANADIAN exclusively onto CP RAIL to /from Montreal. re- routed daily VIA trains #3 & 4 SUPER CONTINENTAL exclusively on CN to /from Toronto. VIA trains # 1 & 2, # 3 & 4: The June 17 1979 re-routings were only in place until June 1982 when the SUPER CONTINENTAL trains # 3 & 4 disappeared completely, replaced by 10 regional daily / tri weekly trains. sdfourty

Comments on: Early VIA and the daily FAST transcontinentals. Enroute to Barrie and beyond, one-two hundred fifty of a second is insufficient to freeze capture ex CP Rail FP-9A #1413. Daily FAST VIA Rail #1 on the CN Newmarket, with only weeks remaining *, May 12, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko Interesting Early VIA Rail maintained CP Rail’s daily FAST service, albeit slowed by the re-routing onto CN Newmarket (Union to CN Boyne to CP Rail Reynolds) and the divergent route into Winnipeg (to access the ex CNorR Winnipeg station), VIA’s April 1979 Canadian: Toronto to Banff, 50:10 (two nights) and 67:35 to Vancouver (three nights). [ CP Rail circa 1975 The Canadian timekeeping was FAST, with first generation aging F's, 47:30 Toronto to Banff and 64:55 to Vancouver ]. Noteworthy * The June 17, 1979 timetable: re-routed the daily VIA #1 & 2 CANADIAN exclusively onto CP RAIL to /from Montreal. re- routed daily VIA trains #3 & 4 SUPER CONTINENTAL exclusively on CN to /from Toronto. VIA trains # 1 & 2, # 3 & 4: The June 17 1979 re-routings were only in place until June 1982 when the SUPER CONTINENTAL trains # 3 & 4 disappeared completely, replaced by 10 regional daily / tri weekly trains. sdfourty http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 25 May 2026 18:35:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1