Re: CN 6-6-4 Sleepers

Greens on the Super in VIA era...yes.  Some examples:

June 1980:
I rode in Green Lane on VIA No 3 from Toronto to Portage la Prairie
Greenwald, Green Court on VIA No 4 at Portage la Prairie

August 1981:
Green Lane, Greenfield, Greenway, Greenmount, Green Point on VIA No 3 at Portage la Prairie
Green Cabin on VIA No 4 at Portage la Prairie

In 1982, there were lots of Greens to be found at Winnipeg:
Greenbank, Greenwood, Greenmount

Eric Gagnon
Kingston, Ontario
Just blogged F-units from the CN Tower at:
http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com

--- In Canadian-Passenger-Rail@..., Gordon Ross
<jgross3rd <at> ...> wrote:
>
> 
> According to the 1981 VIA Consist and Marshalling of Trains:
> Beginning in June '81 trains 3 &4 (Super Continental)added a 6-6-4 sleeper (Toronto-Vancouver) until at
least Oct '81 
> Also trains 9 & 10 (Skeena) Jasper - Prince Rupert had a 6-6-4 sleeper during  period Apr '81 to Oct '81 (don't
know when it started or finished).
> Gordon Ross
> Kitchener,ON
>  
> 
> 

> Lyman Holmes wrote:
> > Did CN (or VIA later on) assign any 6-6-4 sleepers to the Super
> > Continental at any time? I don't believe that CN did but I am
> > not sure about it.
>  
> Tom Box wrote;
>  
>   I can't swear to it, but I think there were one or more 6-6-4
> (Green series) sleepers on the Super Continental when I rode
> it in May 1980. I was brand-new to long-distance train travel.
> I was in a 4-8-4 E-series car (Ernestown) myself, but I have a
> memory of walking through Green-series cars and remarking on
> their similarity to my car. It's possible that memory is from
> a 1984 trip on the Ocean, but I think it's from 1980 on the
> Super Continental. Switching took place in Sudbury and
> Winnipeg, but I can't say if any 6-6-4s were switched in or out
> at those points. The Green series cars on my train were
> smooth-sided ones built new for CN, not the ex-U.S. cars with
> stainless steel cladding.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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