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Loaded with grade 5 and 6 school kids, VIA 6251 (with 6208 and 6105)shuttles passengers between VIA's Windsor (Walkerville) station and the WFCU Centre, home to the Windsor Spitfires and the 2017 Memorial Cup Tournament for Canadian Junior Hockey supremacy. Kids will learn the importance of rail safety during their journey. Disembarking at a specially constructed platform close to the arena, students will tour the Memorial Cup displays, military displays and the Hockey Hall of Fame displays before returning to the station.
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Caption: Loaded with grade 5 and 6 school kids, VIA 6251 (with 6208 and 6105)shuttles passengers between VIA's Windsor (Walkerville) station and the WFCU Centre, home to the Windsor Spitfires and the 2017 Memorial Cup Tournament for Canadian Junior Hockey supremacy. Kids will learn the importance of rail safety during their journey. Disembarking at a specially constructed platform close to the arena, students will tour the Memorial Cup displays, military displays and the Hockey Hall of Fame displays before returning to the station.

Photographer:
Earl Minnis [189] (more) (contact)
Date: 05/24/2017 (search)
Railway: VIA Rail (search)
Reporting Marks: VIA 6251 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: VIA Chatham Sub (search)
City/Town: Windsor (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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3 Comments
  1. Extra 1014
    May 26, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    Train photos do not get much better than this. Kids enjoying a ride on the train and all the fun that goes with it. Excellent photo Earl.

  2. Todd Steinman
    May 26, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    VIA dayliners are about as Canadian as hockey is…when do these units return through Chatham, on their way home? Would love to get a shot of these beauties eh! :D

  3. mile27
    May 26, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    They returned to the east on Thursday’s 78.
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