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Muskeg Express (Limited) Special
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
the mixed train running on the Hudson Bay Railway.
Quotations
1933
Sir William Whyte looking down from his office window on this proceeding used to frequently laugh over it, nevertheless the "Muskeg Limited," as the train became known, occupied its own peculiar place in Winnipeg transportation, and the nickname is worthy of preservation.
1933
The turn of the tide occurred in 1923 when the first 118 miles were rehabilitated, and a train, humorously dubbed "The Muskeg Special," including passenger and freight cars mixed, was run once a week over part of the line.
1952
In its own good time, the Muskeg Express brought us out of the forests and within sight of the ice filled waters of Hudson Bay, and to the end of a journey.
2
the mixed train running on the muskeg railway (def. 2).
See: muskeg railway(def. 2)
Quotations
1934
The "Muskeg Limited," a conglomeration of dirty red box-cars, flat-cars, and one very rickety old-fashioned coach with a caboose tacked on to the rear, at length backed protestingly into the station.
1943
Then came the railway from Edmonton to Waterways, the "Muskeg Express" as it was sometimes called.
1962
. . . I took the bus to Dawson Creek and caught the evening train to Edmonton. 'The muskeg Special' took me to Edmonton.