Canada - VIA Rail Canada

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VIA Rail Canada is the passenger traffic part of the nationalised railroads system of Canada. Technically it is a crown owned company, founded in 1977 when Canadian National CN got rid of all of its passenger services. VIA Rail operates over 500 trains stopping at 378 stations.

This is a VIA Rail Canada passenger service led by a recently refurbished locomotive no.6434 of the type F40PH-2. The picture has been taken near Jasper, Alberta, by Timothy Stevens on 13.2.2011. Mr Stevens has been kind to publish this picture as free under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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A closeup picture of the cab of exactly the same locomotive as shown above.
Picture from the Toronto Union street station 3.7.2014 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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This huge machine, seen here from its side, is another F40PH-2 built by EMD.
Picture from the Toronto Union street station 2.7.2014 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Two EMD F40PH-2 locomotives, nos.6414 and 6417 are just pulling a passenger train out of Toronto Union Street station, probably towards Montreal.
Picture from the Toronto Union street station 2.7.2014 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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VIA Rail locomtive no.906 has just brought a fast passenger train into the Toronto Union street station. The coaches are a fixed rack of Talgo coaches. That's a Spanish patent. The coaches are a bit shorter than normal and they do not have normal bogies at all, just one axle between each of two coaches. Needless to say, it's a totally fixed set, one cannot add or remove any individual coaches from the train without a visit to a major workshop. The huge locomotive seen here, no.906, is a P42DC built by General Electric in November 2001.
Picture from the Toronto Union street station 2.7.2014 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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VIA Rail locomtive no.910 seen here is another GE built P42DC.
Picture from the Toronto Union street station 2.7.2014 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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VIA Rail DC1 dayliners 6135 and 6133 built by Budd in 1958 and 1956 for the Canadian Pacific (CP9072 and DAR9058) seen here at Cowichan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 6 June 1995.
Photo and scan copyright Pat and David Othen.

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VIA 6456 (GM F40PH-2 built in 1989) & 6506 (former Canadian National GM FP9A built in 1954) with a Montreal-bound passenger train leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here it passes the elevators storing grain for export in February 1990.
Photo and scan copyright Pat and David Othen.
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