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Pacific Starlight dims a bit

A mechanical problem has prevented one of the Pacific Starlight dinner train cars from completing the journey to North Bay. BayToday.


















A mechanical problem has prevented one of the Pacific Starlight dinner train cars from completing the journey to North Bay.

BayToday.ca has learned that the dinner train's auxiliary power unit, or APU, had to be dropped off in Winnipeg due to bad wheels.

Ontario Northland Railway purchased 10 of the cars from BC Rail, which phased the dinner train out of service at the end of 2002.

Two Via Rail engines have been hauling the cars across Canada from Vancouver, and the train was scheduled to arrive Thursday at the CN Rail yard in Toronto.

Once there, they were to be hooked up to the Northlander and two locomotives sent down from Cochrane to accommodate the extra load, a source told BayToday.ca.

Then the train was to go to Union Station for boarding, before leaving for North Bay.

The Pacific Starlight dinner train will be put on display around 11 this morning for local dignitaries and members of the provincial Northern caucus.







Here's another little bit of "Breaking News". Instead of ten cars, it'll
only be nine. The APU for the Dinner Train was dropped at Winnipeg due to
bad wheels.