Caption:
Ninety
Miles Per Hour Zone
Newtonville crossovers
VIA CN 6775 and two sisters....at track speed,
Union Depot to Central Station, four intermediate passenger stops: five hours zero minutes.
Mile 278.3 Kingston Sub., May 13, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko.
Noteworthy:
Second hand conventional equipment (hand me downs sold to VIA);
1950's engineered rolling technologies (the 1958 FPA4's and the 1954 CC&F coaches),
1940's signaling & engineered track (jointed rail),
and faster (time card) than today's billion $ Siemens Ventures....
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Also noteworthy: they ran ON-TIME.
Love it…always thought trains did faster speeds back when I was a kid then they do today.