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    Urban Sky replied to the thread VIA Rail.
    Agreed, but the problem is that it is much more difficult to confidently decipher what DND and NRE stand for if it‘s not really clear...
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    Urban Sky reacted to kEiThZ's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    And it's becoming more of dirty word as time goes by. I'm just pointing out that in general, there's both preference and policy in...
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    Urban Sky replied to the thread VIA Rail.
    You should know your audience and stick to abbreviations which are commonly used in this forum. I invite you and @kEiThZ to search the...
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    Urban Sky reacted to crs1026's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    A slow-moving overnight train that has much slack in the schedule may be much easier for CN to handle, and they might even appreciate...
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    Urban Sky reacted to crs1026's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    That's because the timing of connections has changed over the years. In CN days, the evening traffic from Montreal and Ottawa all...
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    Urban Sky reacted to kEiThZ's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    No. I am suggesting that most people will wait for a 6am departure and be fine with reaching their destination at 10am. The handful of...
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    Urban Sky reacted to kEiThZ's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    Boarding early and requiring a lie flat to avoid a night at a hotel will be unnecessary if travel times are fast enough. You don't see...
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    Urban Sky replied to the thread VIA Rail.
    I kind of figured DND out, but it didn‘t make any sense to me since I had never come across NRE (not just as an acronym, but also as a...
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    Urban Sky reacted to crs1026's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    ^It's such a reach from what VIA has done with the new train to reinstating the Cavalier.... let's be grateful for small wins and not...
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    Urban Sky replied to the thread VIA Rail.
    If even rail nerds like myself have no idea what we are talking about, there is a slight problem. What is DND and what is NRE? Don‘t...
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    Which also shows that the excuses other provinces make for poor rail service and their insistence that all rail service be paid for by...
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    That's called debating, but you don't strengthen your position by running off on tangents or grasping at straws. A staked out position...
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    Then just make that argument and move on. When you get into the weeds of all the places a train can stop for passengers, when they...
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    Urban Sky reacted to roger1818's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    The NRE on one off customizations would be very high per trainset. It might also trigger the need for an updated TC safety approval...
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    Urban Sky reacted to dowlingm's post in the thread VIA Rail with Like Like.
    Given the maintenance agreements with Siemens it seems unlikely that any “in house” mods will be done in the early years of these...

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