Thanks for sharing, John! I'm glad they made it that longer than expected!
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These services also featured some similar, English Electric-built box cabs, and a few, more modern GE's, that looked like overgrown 44-ton diesels with with a pantograph mounted atop each hood. There was a fleet of smoothside m.u. motor/trailer car sets as well, which had a lightweight car profile, but were only about 70' long. With their openable windows, many of these were acquired by tourist lines, with some currently on the Conway Scenic Railroad in New Hampshire. All this exotic equipment was replaced by new, aluminum-bodies Bombardier m.u. cars. And, while the electric locomotives did pull northbound CN/VIA trains through Mount Royal Tunnel (with diesels attached,) because of exhaust fumes, such trains went inbound unassisted, as the tunnel was downhill toward Central Station, and the diesels could just coast in.
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