Comments on: With a summer sized consist, VIA train 92 behind leased CN units nears its final destination of Winnipeg Union Station. Although a GP9 would occasionally substitute, a pair of F7Au locomotives were standard power on this tri-weekly train along with a steam generator unit from roughly 1972 until spring 1984. (I’ve been told that GMD-1s powered the train before that.) According to VIA Rail 1981 consist information in my collection, the summer train (June-September) ran with a baggage/crew sleeper, an unreserved coach, a cafe-coach-lounge, another coach, a diner, a 4-8-4 sleeper, a 10-5 sleeper, and a “Cape” lounge. The normal “winter” consist had a two “steam gennies”, a 9600 series baggage car, the two coaches, a diner-lounge, and one sleeper. Note also the three refrigerator cars returning to Winnipeg after carrying groceries to northern Manitoba communities and a former CP diner substituting for the normal former CN car.

Comments on: With a summer sized consist, VIA train 92 behind leased CN units nears its final destination of Winnipeg Union Station. Although a GP9 would occasionally substitute, a pair of F7Au locomotives were standard power on this tri-weekly train along with a steam generator unit from roughly 1972 until spring 1984. (I’ve been told that GMD-1s powered the train before that.) According to VIA Rail 1981 consist information in my collection, the summer train (June-September) ran with a baggage/crew sleeper, an unreserved coach, a cafe-coach-lounge, another coach, a diner, a 4-8-4 sleeper, a 10-5 sleeper, and a “Cape” lounge. The normal “winter” consist had a two “steam gennies”, a 9600 series baggage car, the two coaches, a diner-lounge, and one sleeper. Note also the three refrigerator cars returning to Winnipeg after carrying groceries to northern Manitoba communities and a former CP diner substituting for the normal former CN car. 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