Comments on: 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 http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Tue, 26 May 2026 02:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: awmooney http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44128#comment-44447 awmooney Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:54:06 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/img303-2-1280x852.jpg#comment-44447 That 'air' even looks heavy. I'll take your word for it that it was muggy. :o) 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? That ‘air’ even looks heavy. I’ll take your word for it that it was muggy. :o ) 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?

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