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'In Flanders fields the poppies blow'. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, which is the anniversary of the First World War Armistice. The symbol of Remembrance Day in Canada is the Poppy, commemorated in John McCrae's poem 'In Flanders Fields'. This year VIA Rail has put a poppy on all of there business cars, as here on this VIA 1 car which is stopped at Dorval.
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Caption: 'In Flanders fields the poppies blow'. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, which is the anniversary of the First World War Armistice. The symbol of Remembrance Day in Canada is the Poppy, commemorated in John McCrae's poem 'In Flanders Fields'. This year VIA Rail has put a poppy on all of there business cars, as here on this VIA 1 car which is stopped at Dorval.

Photographer:
Michael Berry [3940] (more) (contact)
Date: 11/07/2015 (search)
Railway: VIA Rail (search)
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Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: VIA Dorval Station (search)
City/Town: Dorval (search)
Province: Quebec (search)
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4 Comments
  1. JP
    November 11, 2015 at 8:39 am

    Excellent work, to you and to VIA.

    Lest we forget.

  2. ngineered4u
    November 11, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Lest we forget!

  3. Dave Brook
    November 11, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    Good on VIA!! And CP, assuming they maintain the tradition of stopping for 2 minutes. What seem like little things really do matter.

  4. ngineered4u
    November 12, 2015 at 11:58 am

    CN also stops all yard movements for 1 minute and trains on the road ring their bells and blow the horns.
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