12-07-2014, 07:37 PM
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(12-06-2014, 07:41 PM)jgsz Wrote:(12-06-2014, 04:15 PM)Canard Wrote: Is anyone here old enough to have ridden (or remember having seen) the Turbo in operation? I wish I had been alive when it was in operation. Such a beautiful machine.
Ah, the Turbo. I was living and working in Montreal so I took the Turbo to Toronto every chance I got. It had a nice elevated bar, from what I can remember.
...still waiting for a high-speed train.
"Is anyone here old enough to have ridden (or remember having seen) the Turbo in operation?"
Now that quote is making me feel reallllly old ... I know that was not your intention. :-)
Wikipedia:
Canadian National Railway purchased the UAC Turbo Train in 1966
"In May 1966 Canadian National Railways ordered five seven-car TurboTrains for the Montreal-Toronto service. They planned to operate the trains in tandem, connecting two trains together into a larger fourteen-car arrangement with a total capacity of 644 passengers. The Canadian trains were built by Montreal Locomotive Works, with their ST6 engines supplied by UAC's Canadian division (now Pratt & Whitney Canada) in Longueuil, Quebec.. .... The Turbo's final run was on October 31, 1982"
Apparently 11 years of university education is not enough to make this forum editor work ... I fixed it four times (font and spacing) ... just leaving it.