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Evangeline
Evangeline was the name of the DAR's "Dayliner" Rail Diesel Car (RDC) passenger service between Halifax and Yarmouth. The name was used to introduce the RDCs in 1956, providing a prestige name train for the new equipment.[1] The name drew on the DAR's long-established "Land of Evangeline" theme. It had been used in earlier times by locomotives No. 14, No. 40 and the steam ships SS Evangeline & SS Evangeline (II). The Evangeline name continued to be used for the RDCs over the 1960s[2] but fell out of use for the DAR's passenger service in the early VIA Rail era of the late 1970s. However it was revived in 1986[3] and was the official name of the Dayliner service until it was canceled in 1990.[4]
Gallery
Cover of the 1963 Timetable promoting the fast "Evangeline"
Ticket from last westbound Evangeline.
See also the Dayliner Gallery for images of Dayliners in the Evangeline Service.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Bill Linley, Canadian Pacific in Color Volume 1: Eastern Lines, page 14.
- ↑ 1963 Dominion Atlantic Railway Passenger Time Table - October 27, 1963
- ↑ David Othen, Dominion Atlantic Railway The Final 25 Years, page 27.
- ↑ VIA Rail Timetable, April 30, 1989 to January 14, 1990, "Evangeline" Trains 151,152,154, page 14, Conrad Davison Collection
