Canadian Rail_no292_1976

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PRESENT-DAY STATION OF THE DOMINION ATLANTIC RAILWAY AT WINDSOR,
Nova Scotia, is a bare and functional building. However, it provides
shelter for the operator, express shipments and any occasional passengers
which may turn up to travel by rail to Halifax, Truro or
the Fundy Coast to Kentville, Digby and Yarmouth.
division of the Dominion Atlantic Railway in a coach belonging to
the Canadian Pacific Railway (so it said), with the motive power supplied
by CP RAIL~
Now, the reason for the lunch-and-a-half was that DAR Train 21
was due at Truro at 1730, or supper time. Normally, it arrives with
every bit of the punctuality of the monthly issue of CANADIAN RAIL:
that is to say, rather late and somewhat the worse for wear.
The real reason for riding Train 21 now escapes me, although it
was probably derivative from Andy's periodic questions and requests.
At the tim~, my enthusiasm seemed to be linked to his queries and
the fact that he had never ridden a mixed train. Moreover, in the
1970s, the railway mixed train seems to be a rapidly disappearing
transportation mode. It may soon be an extinct type and, in my opinion,
this cannot happen fast enough. But one ought to experience such
things before they become extinct, following the" iron horse" into
oblivion.