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Yep, at one time VIA ( aka Your Government) did care to serve medium sized communities.... Eight passenger trains daily – six Budd, two conventional, (and the International was on the Dundas) Note the Trainman at the Baggage Door conversing with the Maintenance crewman at Stratford, January 19, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Yep, at one time VIA ( aka Your Government) did care to serve medium sized communities....

Eight passenger trains daily – six Budd, two conventional, (and the International was on the Dundas)

Note the Trainman at the Baggage Door conversing with the Maintenance crewman

at Stratford, January 19, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko

Photographer:
sdfourty [795] (more) (contact)
Date: 01/19/1985 (search)
Railway: VIA Rail (search)
Reporting Marks: VIA 6207 (search)
Train Symbol: VIA 664 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Stratford (search)
City/Town: Stratford (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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5 Comments
  1. Ian Malenfant-Picard
    January 17, 2026 at 2:55 am

    Brilliant capture! Its a shame what became of our passenger rail service…

  2. Driver8666
    January 19, 2026 at 11:39 am

    I love the drive up service.

  3. Klaucker
    January 20, 2026 at 8:53 am

    Amazing capture from long gone era (both literally and metaphorically)

  4. Dave Brook
    May 4, 2026 at 1:00 pm

    Those were great trains to work.

  5. Todd Steinman
    June 26, 2026 at 4:32 pm

    I remember seeing those RDCs when my family first moved to Stratford. At the time, moving from small farming town of Petrolia to this medium sized (yet seemed bigger to the 8 year old me at that time) certainly wasn’t an easy adjustment. Thankfully, the principal of my school also had an interest in trains, and to help me adjust took me to the station (with parents permission). Sad those days are now just memories. No more RDCs, and well….no school board would give permission today.
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