Laid-up, Retired, Curated. VIA Rail LRC locomotive 6921 is seen on one of the outdoor tracks at Exporail. The unit was one of 31 built for VIA from 1980-1984 along with passenger trains... (more)

One of Amtrak's two Bombardier LRC locomotives poses at South Station in Boston before departing for New Haven on train 153, the Beacon Hill. The year-long LRC lease did not lead to any US sales b... (more)

One of the two bug-eyed Bombardier LRCs leased by Amtrak in the early 1980s pulls into Route 128 station in Westwood, MA. It was running from Boston to New Haven as the Beacon Hill, a semi-local r... (more)

Six years after Amtrak concluded an unsuccessful evaluation of Bombardier's LRC equipment, a VIA LRC set showed up in Boston's South station as part of a high speed rail demonstration sponsored by... (more)

Their corridor trips up from New Haven completed, leased Bombardier LRC locomotive 39 and Amtrak F40PH 208 compare profiles at Boston's South Station. The F40s had a long life with Amtrak, the LRC... (more)

During Amtrak's 1981-82 evaluation of Bombardier LRC equipment, the squat little LRC locomotive and two cars making up Boston-New Haven semi-local train 153, the Beacon Hill, pause at Providence, ... (more)

A three-car VIA LRC set running as an Ottawa-Montreal train pulls into the stop at Dorval, Quebec, in suburban Montreal. The LRC coaches found a long term home on VIA but the bug-eyed Bombardier l... (more)

With its paint still fresh and gleaming, one of Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC sets makes an early morning stop at New London, CT, while running as Boston-New York train 151. The squat little LRC ... (more)

Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC trainset lays over at South Station in Boston during its evaluation on the Northeast Corridor. The bug-eyed LRC was a neat change from F40s and Amfleet, but the demo... (more)

During its short tenure on the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC set departs South Station on a southbound run. Unfortunately the LRC's mechanical performance was not the equal of... (more)

On a miserable, rainy early winter day, a westbound VIA Rail LRC makes a station stop at Cornwall, Ontario. We were looking for classic 1950’s cab units, and it was a disappointment to see a dis... (more)

6914 leads #22 towards Quebec City with the city of Montreal as a backdrop.

6910 leads number 55.

VIA 6922 idles at the MMC.

As VIA P42DC 906 shoves train 79 towards Union Station for their 1900 departure, one must wonder what the relic's in the yard think. Years ago the LRC's, Budd RDC's and FP9's proudly ran these tr... (more)