Comments on: Getting toward sundown……VIA 6139 and 6205 waiting for departure time of 1905 at the modern Truro transportation centre. My assumptions usually don’t hold much water, but I still am assuming this is #602 and on the way to Halifax. Buddcars seemed to be the rail passenger mainstay in the Maritimes back then. To me, they are still the logical ideal for low cost operation.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:32:04 +0000

I’m batting 1.000 !!! Another wrong assumption !!!!

By: robin lowrie

robin lowrie — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:16:36 +0000

If I remember Truro correctly, this train would be outbound from Halifax on the way to Sydney.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:52:09 +0000

Ken; it seems if the image has a passenger train in it, memories of yours are bound to be rekindled. )
But thanks!!!

By: harricottbay

harricottbay — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:47:58 +0000

Great image Arnold! Rode the RDC from North Sydney to Truro and return a few weeks later in Sept/Oct 1988 and loved it. My understanding that at the time of the 1990 cancellation, it was the most heavily patronized of VIA’s regional routes anywhere in the country.