The Northlander (nee TEE Train) Goes Home

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The following were shots taken by Ron Grant. The Northlander trainset coaches were separated, loaded into containers and onto a ship in Saint John, New Brunswick for their trip back to Europe in mid-October 1998. The container bottoms first had to have rails welded to them, then the cars were loaded and chained down. Afterward, paper rolls were loaded all around the cars for protection (the ship normally calls into port to load rolls of newspaper for Europe). The cars were lifted onto the articulated trailers with the ship's forklifts, and then lifted off once inside the ship. From Saint John they are destined for Hamburg where, after importation fomalities are completed, the train will roll to a designated siding in Hersbruck, near Nuremberg.

The Northlander's Trip home so far:

Another chronology and photos can be found on Andreas Stirl's pages

• October 12th, 1998, 01:00 p.m., the train departs North Bay for Toronto for the last time.
• October 16th, 1998, Toronto–Montreal
• October 17th, 1998, Montreal–Moncton
• October 19th, 1998, arrival a few miles out Saint John
• October 23th, 1998, 11:00 a.m. MS Tampa starts the harbour for it's journey across the Atlantic.
• November 5th, 1998, 02:15 a.m. MS Tampa, after Antwerpen and Rotterdam, arrives at the Hamburg docks in Germany.
• Hermann reports that between November's arrival and January 1999, while the trainsets await new wheels in Hamburg they are vandalized. Such problems are apparently not restricted to North America! Click here for photos...

Below are photos of the preparation for the trip home made in Saint John, New Brunswick.

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Info provided by Bob Boudreau, and TEE Classics.

All photos are copyright Ron Grant, (1998) and may be copied for personal use only. They may not be recopied for sale or for commercial purposes without the photographer's consent.