Fill her up. VIA's TurboTrain gets serviced in Toronto. Back then you could walk into the Foreman's office at Spadina Avenue, sign a release, grab a hard hat, and wander all around.
VIA's Budd car 186 between White River, Ontario and Sudbury, Ontario is just a few miles into the near 300 mile run across the sparsely populated boreal forest, swampy, and rocky terrain.
VIA 186 loads passengers and freight on a rare quad set RDC. The White River yard is pretty empty filled with various pieces of OCS equipment. (The intermodal car is a bad order and would go west ... (more)
Normally arriving into Montreal late in the evening, the combined VIA Rail train from northern Quebec is now entering Montreal in the morning after a mostly nocturnal run. This is a temporary meas... (more)