Reno Fun Train?Marked Iowa Pacific SLRG 557 800966. On its way to Oakland. Anybody know anyhting about it? It's sure purty. We're down about 1.5 hrs I think. Had to wait for an empty UP stacker just before SLO, plus two more meets.
The cars never made it into the VIA era and I misspoke in my first post, that photo was taken at Halifax in the '70s.Wonder what VIA did with these Jewels, are they in Private Hands or were they Scrapped???
The rather small issue of a rear exit never quite made sense to me as a reason for scrapping whole cars that had to have been mighty popular with passengers. Was the government not satisfied with placing exit windows in there? It would have been quite easy for a company with CN's resources to fabricate a fix with little to no effort or cost.The cars never made it into the VIA era and I misspoke in my first post, that photo was taken at Halifax in the '70s.Wonder what VIA did with these Jewels, are they in Private Hands or were they Scrapped???
Coffee Creek is exCN Fundy and I believe the rest have been scrapped.
After the cars had been in service on CN for a few years, Transport Canada (or it's equivalent back then) had a problem with the cars.....no rear exit.....and they were removed from service.
Actually VIA doesn't have the typical emergency windows on their trains that we have here in the US; at least on the older cars. I'm not sure if the Ren equipment has the more modern stuff where you pull the handle and remove the insulation and then the window.Was the government not satisfied with placing exit windows in there? It would have been quite easy for a company with CN's resources to fabricate a fix with little to no effort or cost.
Yes, a red tag is placed above the seat in coach as well, just like the sleeper. I am guaranteed to be the designee in my car when riding VIA every single time. That's what I get for being a firefighter.Actually VIA doesn't have the typical emergency windows on their trains that we have here in the US; at least on the older cars. I'm not sure if the Ren equipment has the more modern stuff where you pull the handle and remove the insulation and then the window.Was the government not satisfied with placing exit windows in there? It would have been quite easy for a company with CN's resources to fabricate a fix with little to no effort or cost.
But on the older equipment the SCA is required to teach at least 1 passenger within that car how to use the special emergency hammer to break out the windows in the event of an emergency. It's almost like being seated in an exit row, although they can pick any able bodied person within the car to teach the trick to. They put a little colored sticky above the door of the person that was trained in how to break out the windows.
I assume that something similar is done in coach, but I didn't investigate that.
Actually the idea is that the VIA Rail crew member is the "designee", with the lucky passenger being the backup.I would think that in a serious emergency, depending on one 'designee', if not incapacitated, to try to locate and use the 'hammer and glass' escape plan is not the best option.The self-instructive label on a red handle on several escape windows seems much better....
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