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[[Image:DAR 2627 train 100 Digby, NS 8-26-56.jpg|thumb|225px|right|The Fast Freight leaves Digby in the early morning of August 26, 1956.]] | [[Image:DAR 2627 train 100 Digby, NS 8-26-56.jpg|thumb|225px|right|The Fast Freight leaves Digby in the early morning of August 26, 1956.]] | ||
| − | "The Fast Freight" was a nickname for [[Train No. 100]], the DAR's long running overnight mixed train from [[Yarmouth]] to [[Halifax]]. It was also known as the [[Midnight]]. It was the very first train of the day for many Annapolis Valley towns arriving at dawn from Yarmouth where it had left the previous evening. It ran opposite to [[Train No. 99]], [[Midnight|The Midnight]]. | + | "The Fast Freight" was a nickname for [[Train No. 100]], the DAR's long running overnight mixed train from [[Yarmouth]] to [[Halifax]]. It was also known as the [[Midnight]] in western parts of the valley as it ran in the deep night hours.(1) It was the very first train of the day for many Annapolis Valley towns arriving at dawn from Yarmouth where it had left the previous evening. It ran opposite to [[Train No. 99]], [[Midnight|The Midnight]]. |
| − | [[M. Allen Gibson|Allen Gibson]] wrote in his nostalgic book ''[[Train Time]]'': "The first train of the day ran through Wolfville in the early hours of the morning. It had left Yarmouth the previous evening before, hauling just about anything and everything that could be attached to the engine. The railway knew the rain as No. 100. Passengers who sometimes waited long chill hours on station platforms knew it by other names, among which "The Fast Freight" possibly is to be preferred. Even that was a misnomer because it was neither fast nor freight. To be sure it hauled freight cars But it also had a baggage car, a passenger coach (in which people slept soundly in all many of uncomfortable positions) and a sleeping car (its passengers assuaging their feelings of guilt for having spent the night in comfort by insisting, "I never slept a wink, all that shunting and jolting. For many an early rising Acadia student, No. 100 was the first lap of a journey home. During the Second World War it was, for many a young soldier from nearby Aldershot Camp, the beginning of a journey to his country's battlefields."( | + | [[M. Allen Gibson|Allen Gibson]] wrote in his nostalgic book ''[[Train Time]]'': "The first train of the day ran through Wolfville in the early hours of the morning. It had left Yarmouth the previous evening before, hauling just about anything and everything that could be attached to the engine. The railway knew the rain as No. 100. Passengers who sometimes waited long chill hours on station platforms knew it by other names, among which "The Fast Freight" possibly is to be preferred. Even that was a misnomer because it was neither fast nor freight. To be sure it hauled freight cars But it also had a baggage car, a passenger coach (in which people slept soundly in all many of uncomfortable positions) and a sleeping car (its passengers assuaging their feelings of guilt for having spent the night in comfort by insisting, "I never slept a wink, all that shunting and jolting. For many an early rising Acadia student, No. 100 was the first lap of a journey home. During the Second World War it was, for many a young soldier from nearby Aldershot Camp, the beginning of a journey to his country's battlefields."(2) |
==References== | ==References== | ||
| − | (1) [[M. Allen Gibson]], ''[[Train Time]]'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 21, 25. | + | (1)(1) Doug Schaffner, post to DAR-DPI Forum, Dec. 19. 2009: http://www.dardpi.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=188 |
| + | (2) [[M. Allen Gibson]], ''[[Train Time]]'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 21, 25. | ||
[[Category: Named Trains]] | [[Category: Named Trains]] | ||
Revision as of 19:55, 24 December 2009
"The Fast Freight" was a nickname for Train No. 100, the DAR's long running overnight mixed train from Yarmouth to Halifax. It was also known as the Midnight in western parts of the valley as it ran in the deep night hours.(1) It was the very first train of the day for many Annapolis Valley towns arriving at dawn from Yarmouth where it had left the previous evening. It ran opposite to Train No. 99, The Midnight.
Allen Gibson wrote in his nostalgic book Train Time: "The first train of the day ran through Wolfville in the early hours of the morning. It had left Yarmouth the previous evening before, hauling just about anything and everything that could be attached to the engine. The railway knew the rain as No. 100. Passengers who sometimes waited long chill hours on station platforms knew it by other names, among which "The Fast Freight" possibly is to be preferred. Even that was a misnomer because it was neither fast nor freight. To be sure it hauled freight cars But it also had a baggage car, a passenger coach (in which people slept soundly in all many of uncomfortable positions) and a sleeping car (its passengers assuaging their feelings of guilt for having spent the night in comfort by insisting, "I never slept a wink, all that shunting and jolting. For many an early rising Acadia student, No. 100 was the first lap of a journey home. During the Second World War it was, for many a young soldier from nearby Aldershot Camp, the beginning of a journey to his country's battlefields."(2)
References
(1)(1) Doug Schaffner, post to DAR-DPI Forum, Dec. 19. 2009: http://www.dardpi.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=188 (2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 21, 25.
