Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba January 11 end of the line Crft Foffo Engineer makes last run train Veteran retires Early As via rail closes line up when Engineer Pete Fairfull pulled the Havelock Toronto train into Union station he the via train was making his final although he knew hed have to hang up his train engineers Cap for Good this he didst expect his retirement to be so i would have stayed but since there via rail taking it i might As Well go he said Early one morning last driving the Little train along Snow covered tracks on one of its twice daily com Muter Fairfull was due to retire in june after a career with up rail that spanned almost 50 but with via rail cutting 18 of its 38 routes beginning today his the company told him it no longer needed he is among about Laid off via it want a Highnote ending for someone whose first love has always been the its More than a Job it was like free installation limited time offer Paterson Iron 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Layoff list last the daily eastbound Canadian took the Southern route through the mountains to through Winnipeg to Toronto on up rail a transcontinental passenger train had been travelling that route since july you leave Here on the Southern you go through the Fraser Hells Rogers pass up through the Connaught Tunnel you go through the Yoho spiral the great its just Beautiful along this part of the route will survive As the Rocky a daytime summer tourist excursion that ends at canadians air views on via by the Canadian press a sampling of canadians thoughts As via rail cuts its passenger ser vice across the country by More than half Odd i never Ever thought when i started out that i would be the last person working in the new Glasgow Ivan a new railroader for almost 39 years who accepted retirement rather than relocation when via ser vice through his Hometown non six months from via will be the butt of jokes just As the Post office has always via rider Marc Emery of in a letter to the London free press about a trip aboard a via train that he says was ran three hours late and was staffed by a Crew that was uniformly surly and Odd we have no blood in our history no searing civil no surgical we Are the Only nation in the world by the building of a author and historian Pierre n m they obviously know something our government mayor Art noting that As via cuts service Many european countries Are upgrading their rail non once that stuff is via wont be Able to get it railway historian Greg urging the Federal government to Mothball Vias ancient rolling Stock rather than Selling non they via said i had such a Good future that things were getting now look where i Nestor a via payroll clerk in Montreal who has been told he has no non you win you lose Federal attorney general Doug commenting on a British co Lumbia court ruling that via must keep its trains running on Vancouver cd a few correction january 15 Safeway flyer the following errors appeared in Titis flyer on Page the 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