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      WWW replied to the thread VIA Ocean discussion.
      Google map reference: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.658193,-63.6244786,310m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu Turn table is centered in image...
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      WWW replied to the thread VIA Ocean discussion.
      Reversing seats can be done easily - case in point the Alaska RR Gold Star bi-level cars. While the Alaska RR operation (ANC-FAI) does...
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      WWW reacted to fdaley's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      If I am remembering correctly, Windsor Junction is about 12 miles west of Halifax. In the late 1980s, the westbound Atlantic was...
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      WWW reacted to crescent-zephyr's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      well... the good news is - there wouldn't be any other trains trying to use that wye! haha.
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      WWW reacted to west point's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      That is the way VIA could mitigate the problem. Turning a train set short of Halifax would give a clear passenger amenity leaving...
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      WWW reacted to Siegmund's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      Turns out to be our mistake, not yours: a closer look at the satellite photo, and at the street view, shows that the wye has been...
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      WWW reacted to Rasputin's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      As late as 1987, if I recall the date correctly, the Ocean was turned, car by car, on a turntable near the VIA station in Halifax. This...
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      WWW reacted to Siegmund's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      Try here: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.786,-63.641,466m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu It is not a good solution, 20km as the crow flies...
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      WWW reacted to crescent-zephyr's post in the thread VIA Ocean discussion with Like Like.
      There is a wye at Windsor, but you'd have to cut the engines off and run them around and you'd need the whole wye cleared - no other...
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      WWW replied to the thread VIA Ocean discussion.
      OK - the WYE is visible as a wye but something about the tracks (roadbed) leaves much to be desired. A few years ago I was on a NCL...
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      WWW replied to the thread VIA Ocean discussion.
      I have Google map Windsor Junction and having trouble finding that WYE - there is an old CN turn table map center...
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      WWW replied to the thread VIA Ocean discussion.
      Maybe referring to the east end of the Ocean travel - - - ? At Halifax the Ocean was turned in a container freight yard for the next day...
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      WWW replied to the thread Chicago Union Station discussion.
      OK FOLKS I BLEW IT - APOLOGY - - - - - That last 90 degree turn on the Grand Staircase was my disorientated error ! Jackson Street...
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      WWW replied to the thread Amtrak Status Maps.
      It is working for me - just pulled up the (Mid)- West section: http://dixielandsoftware.net/cgi-bin/getmap.pl?mapname=West
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      WWW replied to the thread Chicago Union Station discussion.
      I am not familiar with that Canal (Concourse) entrance which appears to be in an interior corridor. The one I was referencing has...
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