The Charlevoix Train website seems to indicate there is a shuttle between Quebec City and their station. Is there some reason why the train does not run all the way to the Via station?
It’s the picture with the cable car that puts it over the top and besides I was looking for an excuse to post that German built steam locomotive #555 in operation on the CPR a long time ago,
While you’re discussing the German-built locomotive, isn’t there also a considerable amount of German-sourced rail installed up there around thar era? There will be an interesting story on how this Teutonic ‘supply chain’ came to be utilized …
Is the first in a long time in North America with any regular service having couplers and buffers being the only connection between cars. How does the AAR like that use of non Janey or automatic couplers ? How will there be rescue when the first break down that will occurr sooner or later ?
A friend recently took an old chunk of rail home and cleaned it up. Looks like 60 lb and is marked “BOCHUM 1880”!
Somewhere in storage at the Alberta Railway Museum we have a couple chunks manufactured by Krupp, and I believe they have 1870s dates. I was told they were originally laid on the CPR’s Pembina Branch, from Winnipeg to the American border.
I guess at the time there were no rail mills in Canada.
That is interesting. The three times I rode in Renaissance cars between Montreal and the Maritimes (I know, they are now the “Atlantic Provinces.”) I never thought about looking at the couplings. I also rode a Renaissance car from Montreal to Quebec–but it would have been difficult to see the couplingds, what with the high platforms.
Are the many names applied to the Province or just to Quebec City?
The first time my wife and I were in the city, she stayed at the station (we were taking the next train back west), and I walked around a bit. In my peregrination, a came across two groups of English-speaking schoolgirls who were touring the city. At the monument to Wolfe and Montcalm, one of the girls asked “What language is that (on the monument)?” I told them, “Latin.”–and I was asked not to tell the other group. When the second group came up, they wondered, and I told them that it was a language older than both French and English, and both languages have many words taken from it–and one girl (apparently thinking) said, “Latin.”
On my way back to the station, with a map in my hand, I missed a turn, and stopped to determine how to find my way back to the street I wanted. A young quebecois (you put the cedille in) came up and asked if he come help. Using my 44 year-old high school French, I told him where I wanted to go (quand en Qebec, parle comme les quebecois parlent)–and he understood me! and showed me, on my map, how to go.
On our secod trip to the city, we spent a night at the Chateau Frontenac. I do not remember what the my wife wanted for dinner, but the garcon asked if she wanted canard–I should have told her that he would bring her duck (she had no desire to eat such), but did not, and she seemed to enjoy the meat. I never did tell her.
It would be nice if Via would use such railcars to expand service in areas that only have one or two trains a day. Or no service at all like Peterborough and Havelock.
