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| Title: |
VIA RDC |
| Description: |
An RDC rolls toward Central Station as it comes in for its final stop. The inbound trains did not get electric helpers due to being able to coast downgrade into the station. Seen about to enter the tunnel at Portal Heights. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1985 Upload Date: 10/8/2014 3:27:19 AM |
| Location: |
Montreal, QC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6101(RDC1) |
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514 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Kitchener train |
| Description: |
There are two routes from London to Toronto. The main runs via Hamilton and up the lake shore, while the secondary route takes a more inland route via Kitchener. Those schedules were covered by trains of RDCs. This one is just in from Toronto. |
| Photo Date: |
8/27/1982 Upload Date: 3/26/2013 1:15:55 AM |
| Location: |
London, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6114(RDC1) |
| Views: |
777 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming from the yard |
| Description: |
A set of four RDCs rolls into the Moncton station from the yard. They will be broken up into two singles, and a pair, to cover connections to the Ocean and the Atlantic. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1989 Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:34:47 AM |
| Location: |
Moncton, NB |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6136(RDC1) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6138(RDC1) |
| Views: |
833 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First one to go |
| Description: |
VIA 6138 has been cut from the set of four that just arrived at the station, and will take on passengers for its outlying destination. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1989 Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:36:25 AM |
| Location: |
Moncton, NB |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6136(RDC1) |
| Views: |
844 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RDCs and an F 40 |
| Description: |
The RDCs that will head out to connecting towns sit alongside the set out cars and power for the Ocean. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1989 Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:41:14 AM |
| Location: |
Moncton, NB |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6431(F40PH-2) VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6136(RDC1) |
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831 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Breaking them up |
| Description: |
The RDCs that came over from the yard have now been broken up and now are getting ready to take passengers from the Atlantic and the Ocean. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1989 Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:39:12 AM |
| Location: |
Moncton, NB |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) |
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621 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
VIA 6143 |
| Description: |
One of four RDCs at the station, ready to roll for a main line connection. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1989 Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:42:55 AM |
| Location: |
Moncton, NB |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VIA 6143(RDC1) |
| Views: |
337 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Electric help |
| Description: |
CN rostered several motors to pull trains through the Mont Royal tunnel going out-inbound trains just coasted through-even RDCs. This one is assisted by one of the two steeple cab units built in 1950. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:59:25 AM |
| Location: |
Montreal, QC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 6727(Z-5-A) VIA 6148(RDC1) |
| Views: |
842 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Getting a hand |
| Description: |
This VIA RDC has been getting a pull uphill from downtown on its first leg out to Jct de lest by onf of CNs motors, as all diesel powered trains do. We see it passing Portal Heights station. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 4:07:43 AM |
| Location: |
Montreal, QC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 6727(Z-5-A) VIA 6148(RDC1) |
| Views: |
752 Comments: 0 |
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