Comments on: Pedestrians go by their daily activities on the downtown trail below, as the lead Budd RDC-1 on VIA #663 pops into view on the bridge above the Speed River as it arrives in Guelph. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20434#comment-10513 Stephen C. Host Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:37:42 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VIA-61xx-663-arriving-at-Guelph-ON-05-31-1984-Bill-Thomson-IMG069e-despec-cc-shrp.jpg#comment-10513 Some points of interest: http://moretrains.weebly.com/blog Page 22 of this document: https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/media/pdfs/About_VIA/our-company/corporate-plan/Summary%20of%202011-2015%20Corporate%20Plan_EN.pdf And page 4 of this document (but the entire document is relevant for us NML locals) http://transport-action-ontario.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NML-Reborn-Final-Rev5-150801sm-1.pdf :) Some points of interest:

http://moretrains.weebly.com/blog

Page 22 of this document:

https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/media/pdfs/About_VIA/our-company/corporate-plan/Summary%20of%202011-2015%20Corporate%20Plan_EN.pdf

And page 4 of this document (but the entire document is relevant for us NML locals)

http://transport-action-ontario.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NML-Reborn-Final-Rev5-150801sm-1.pdf

:)

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20434#comment-10509 Stephen C. Host Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:35:44 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VIA-61xx-663-arriving-at-Guelph-ON-05-31-1984-Bill-Thomson-IMG069e-despec-cc-shrp.jpg#comment-10509 VIA almost used budd cars on the North Mainline around 2010 - a trial was planned to run them and in advanced stages of negotiation only to have it quashed on account of crossing protection activation isues (despite budd cars being very common on the line 15 years prior). Drew this shot is very much still possible, but it's tight - like any photo - trees can grow a LOT in decades.. it's still a public park This is the photo for OSR side from same location, i'm standing by the handrail along the pathway and used a wide angle lens: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=13602 VIA almost used budd cars on the North Mainline around 2010 – a trial was planned to run them and in advanced stages of negotiation only to have it quashed on account of crossing protection activation isues (despite budd cars being very common on the line 15 years prior).

Drew this shot is very much still possible, but it’s tight – like any photo – trees can grow a LOT in decades.. it’s still a public park

This is the photo for OSR side from same location, i’m standing by the handrail along the pathway and used a wide angle lens:

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=13602

]]> By: Drew Goff http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20434#comment-10505 Drew Goff Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:52:01 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VIA-61xx-663-arriving-at-Guelph-ON-05-31-1984-Bill-Thomson-IMG069e-despec-cc-shrp.jpg#comment-10505 Very nice! I wonder if this shot is still accesible today, probably not with how grown up that area is now. I've noticed it so I gotta at least ask, what's behind that blurred out spot? Very nice! I wonder if this shot is still accesible today, probably not with how grown up that area is now. I’ve noticed it so I gotta at least ask, what’s behind that blurred out spot?

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