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Biggest surprise so far is that anyone voted for Bachmann. Cheap crap. Maybe that Bach-mann (or is it Bach-man?) dude is being paid OT to add votes to the poll! Kevin

What's the doubleheader about Chris. I may have overlooked it on this board. Kevin

There's no place like Mile 313! Spent most of my childhood there watching GO Trains (loved those self-propelled Rolls Royce-powered units), RDCs, Rapidos and, of course, the Turbo just about every day. Thanks for the pix. When I get some time, I'll scan some pix as a retrospective...

Model Power F7 Never thought I would say it but I bought two of the new Model Power F7 units - all metal with dual flywheels - in Canadian National livery and find they run smoothly, quietly and look sharp. I only wish they had blackened the wheels. And, for $60 CDN, they were a bargain. Kevin

Overpaid bunch of whiners. Worked for CN and saw the waste. Kevin

A few notes on the accident.. 1. CP Police were privy to the names of the deceased. Whether or not management was provide the info is a different story. 2. They were in an Olds Alero, not a van. 3. CP and Durham Regional Police - at the same press conference - maintained the families didn't...

Couplers on your VIA coaches Steve....What kind of coaches are you using on your VIA consist (Con-Cor or custom-painted Katos)? I bought six Con-Cor coaches with knuckle-type couplers but they have trouble staying together behind my new P42s. They come apart on straight track, too. My layout...

Robin....You may have missed our coverage in the Toronto Sun. We did a separate story on how the train crew would be feeling, how they'd be counselled, how they'd probably be haunted for some time by what happened. Tried to parallel it to the immense grief that would be felt by the families of...

Can you tell I'm Canadian? CN EQUIPMENT FA2 Life-Like (4) Fine FB2 Life-Like (2) FA2 Model Power (2) Yuck GP7 Atlas (1) Great GP18 Life-Like (1) Fine SD40-2 Kato (1) Exceptional F7 Model Power (2) 2001 issue, metal -...

Hopefully they'll do the P42 in the new VIA Rail colours for those of us who model the Canadian corridor. Although, I don't find VIA's new colour scheme on the Genesis units that attractive. They basically did it to match the Nightstar coaches they scooped from Britain (pale green/dark...

I recently joined a commuter forum started by the owner of IHP Models, a company specializing in commuter cars. I noted they are producing HO versions of the Bombardier bi-level commuter cars first operated on GO Transit in Toronto and now widely used across the U.S. on Metrolink, Sounder and...

As you can guess by the name of the train, it was basically aircraft technology applied to the rails and was considered somewhat radical at the time, though it employed several technologies previously built into other trains, like the single radial axle between cars, turbines, etc. In Canada, it...

Woodie....Here's a link on the Turbo. www.sikorskyarchives.com/train.html I used to watch it day and night and got to ride it about a dozen times between Toronto-Kingston-Montreal. VIA Rail ran them until Oct. 31, 1982 and they were scrapped a year or two later. Amtrak also ran them...

I've been a United Aircraft Turbotrain fanatic for the past 33 years. I collect all kinds of Turbo stuff but I've had trouble finding any engineers who worked on the Turbo. Just wondering if any of the members on this site (I guess they'd be retired CN employees now) had the chance to work on...

I've got six Bachmann Turbo sets (four CN and two grey/purple/black/red) PCand some extra cars. Just building my n-scale layout now (late 1960s/70s/early 1980s). It's a combination CN & VIA (Turbos, RDCs, F-units, etc) and Amtrak (Turbos, RDCs, Metroliners). Maybe after the layout is done I'll...