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Caption:
The combined VIA Rail trains #44 #54 #2
yes! Three trains in One, and yes, Daily !
a k a Capital Lakeshore Canadian Canadien
FP9A #6532, a GMD 1957 product, leads the combined VIA on the approach to CN Scarborough Junction
It is a humid, hot morning on the Birchmount overpass July 25, 1982 Kodachrome by S.Danko
noteworthy
those westbound signals are for the GECO branch junction mile 327 Kingston subdivision
upper right: note the GECO branch Milne Ave level crossing
This is one of VIA's experiments to reduce transcontinental train costs, no Sudbury switching for the separate Toronto and Montreal sections: 82 83 84 the Ottawa valley trains were tri weekly Budd cars, Sudbury to Ottawa, by June 1, 1985 the Sudbury switching resumed with the Toronto section trains #9 and #10
colourful
open auto racks
more Birchmount views
more three in one
sdfourty
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That ‘air’ even looks heavy. I’ll take your word for it that it was muggy.
) Could not tolerate those days.
Of interest to me was all the paint changes over the years with this and other VIA locomotives. I remember 6532 in CN colours, then that trial scheme of grey/gold; now this scheme, and wondered if it ever got ‘VIA’ painted on the nose before it got renumbered and then wrecked?