Re: Sat Jun 3oth 2007 VIA 1 at Doncaster Ont Consist

Those trains also had a dedicated diner, placed ahead of the coaches  
for feeding the students...

I don't recall seeing a diner in front of the coaches on those  
consists...

Jon

On Jun 30, 2007, at 6:18 PM, James R. Garey wrote:

> ---Tom Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Anybody else notice that there are more coaches on
>> the Canadian than usual?
>> This is good, because it probably means that more
>> Canadians are using 1 and 2
>> for local travel.
>
> If my memory serves me correctly, I think that just
> about this time a year ago, large numbers of students
> were using 1 and 2 to travel cross-country as part of
> a major student exchange program. As I recall, one of
> our Listmembers from Vancouver had a family member in
> the program, and he reported in some detail about it.
>
> If that exchange program is in operation again this
> summer, that might explain the large number of coaches
> on 1 today.

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