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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
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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

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Date: 07/25/1982 (search)
Railway: VIA Rail (search)
Reporting Marks: VIA #6532 (search)
Train Symbol: VIA #44 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Mile 327 Kingston Sub (search)
City/Town: Scarborough (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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One Comment
  1. 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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