'Spirit Train' to ride the rails once more 6 hours ago

“Picture Robson Square in 2010 and think of that going to 10 communities across the country”

Twenty years ago, as Calgary was getting ready for the 1988 Winter Games, Canadian Pacific put on a special cross-country train to participate in the torch relay. via Vancouver Sun

[Brenda]

check out the Canadian Pacific Spirit Train website www.cpspirittrain.com

[Canada]

Thanks for that,

too Bad We Don't have True Coast to Coast Service Anymore

Beginning on this day, VIA Rail cancelled all passenger trains originating or terminating in Montreal, including all trains west from Halifax and east from Toronto, because of debris on the tracks such as fallen trees and live power lines, and track signal failures and loss of trackside radio links with the Montreal dispatchers' office due to power failures and downed communications lines.

Many track switches were frozen deep in hard ice, which in places was up to the railheads.

Also, there were many highway crossing warning signals that were not operating due to local power failures.

This was a result of the extensive ice storm that swept over eastern Ontario, southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on 6-10 January 1998...

http://www.alts.net/ns1625/nshist32.html

[dHat Pawlo]

Brenda wrote:

check out the Canadian Pacific Spirit Train website www.cpspirittrain.com

...YES...our farming family ,also worked for the(Okanagan line) Canadian Pacific Railway....THANKYOUS'..C.P.R.. GOD Bless.long...live,...eh...The hillbilly farmboy has spoken....now x-railman..yodeling....eh..

[Canada]

Then there's Running Planes on Spirit in Canada

Aging rescue planes' replacements put on back burner

1 hr ago | Ottawa Citizen

The Defence Department will upgrade the radios and other avionics equipment on its aging Buffalo search-and-rescue planes

to keep them flying until at least 2015,

five years past when they were supposed to be ...

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/stor...

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[paul shykora]

.LONG LIVE...Our beloved..Canadian Pacific Railway.....eh.