Comments on: Via Rail FPA-4 6778 sits at the head end of #15 at Halifax Ocean Terminal shortly before the train’s departure time for Montreal. The consist was the typical mix of CN and Via painted cars seen in this period. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 25 May 2026 00:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: aeyb701 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=22152#comment-67936 aeyb701 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:36:54 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/CN-6778-Via-15-Halifax-NS-Jan-13-1979-sharp.jpg#comment-67936 My brother Wally and I, both still minors then, had been offered a cab ride on the Ocean that summer from Halifax to Moncton. This was to make up for on-board staff having taken an extra ticket copy from each of us returning from a sojourn to Sydney NS via Railiner (RDC) for its own sake a month earlier. We were to have then taken the Dayliner (still CP Rail-DAR) from Halifax to Berwick which was home. Problem was by then we each had only our “not good for travel” receipt stubs. Frantic calling mom and her speaking to someone at HFX station we somehow ended up on the late evening Dayliner which went only as far as Kentville, but only 20 minutes from home. Luckily it was the one night a week , iirc, that the later, second departure operated. Anyway, we were all ready to ride in the cab that August on a trip we were taking to Ontario anyway when the official said we had to have waivers signed, and by a parent or official guardian. None was present as we drove in with neighbours also taking the Ocean. We missed that opportunity and never addressed it afterward. Alas no one mentioned wavers before we got there. Would have been super in the cab of an FPA-4. My brother Wally and I, both still minors then, had been offered a cab ride on the Ocean that summer from Halifax to Moncton. This was to make up for on-board staff having taken an extra ticket copy from each of us returning from a sojourn to Sydney NS via Railiner (RDC) for its own sake a month earlier. We were to have then taken the Dayliner (still CP Rail-DAR) from Halifax to Berwick which was home. Problem was by then we each had only our “not good for travel” receipt stubs. Frantic calling mom and her speaking to someone at HFX station we somehow ended up on the late evening Dayliner which went only as far as Kentville, but only 20 minutes from home. Luckily it was the one night a week , iirc, that the later, second departure operated.
Anyway, we were all ready to ride in the cab that August on a trip we were taking to Ontario anyway when the official said we had to have waivers signed, and by a parent or official guardian. None was present as we drove in with neighbours also taking the Ocean. We missed that opportunity and never addressed it afterward. Alas no one mentioned wavers before we got there. Would have been super in the cab of an FPA-4.

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