Comments by "smwca123" (@smwca123) on "Taking the TRAIN across CANADA - Manitoba [Ep. 7]" video.

  1. If he did, he probably couldn't squeeze it into the 23 minutes he's allotted for each episode. Same is true for a lot of other things I remember from my time living in Winnipeg from 1967 to 1973 while my dad was posted there with the military. Among them: Assiniboine Park, with its zoo and "Poohseum"; Kildonan Park with Rainbow Stage where my family went at least once each summer, usually during my grandmother's annual visit from Montreal; Old Fort Garry; the two Universities; the Legislature, whose theme song should be "They say the Golden Boy smiles down on Broadway...". The Transportation Museum at the VIA Rail station he covered in a previous episode in connection with the Churchill train.
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  2. An Air Canada 767, then new in service, that ran out of fuel over NW Ontario and glided to a safe landing at the old RCAF base at Gimli July 23, 1983. The first officer of that flight happened to remember the base. The crowning irony: An AC service truck sent from Winnipeg ran out of gas on the way to Gimli.
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  3. 1. Great to see the city I once lived in, though I wasn't born there. I went back to visit twice, in 2001 and 2011. As I recall the VIA station once had a higher dome that was somewhat reminiscent of that of the Legislature not too far away. 2. One of the keystone events of my time in Winnipeg concerned the transit system: I was on the last trolleybus on October 30, 1970; and wrote about that trip for a book entitled "Tires and Wires". 3. Since well before my time there, Winnipeg has been the bus-building capital of North America. the NFI Group, which includes New Flyer Industries (city buses) and Motor Coach Industries (highway coaches) are both based there. In fact Western Flyer Coach, as it was then called, shifted from highway coaches to transit buses in 1968, during my first year there. 4. I didn't see all that much of the province beyond Winnipeg: the occasional trip to Gimli, once to Teulon, and a week at William Lake, near the International Peace Garden that straddles the Canada-U.S. border near Boissevain, MB and Kelvin, North Dakota. Yes, we went to the Garden once. 5. Your room on the train leaving Winnipeg is what's called a "roomette", designed especially for solo travelers. 6. IDKWYGNBIKIBTWY.
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