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Title: |
VIA 6902 |
Description: |
Day of the month is approximate. |
Photo Date: |
10/13/1990 Upload Date: 10/31/2006 1:07:32 AM |
Location: |
Burlington, ON |
Author: |
Alex Simins |
Categories: |
Passenger |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6902(LRC) |
Views: |
750 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6903 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
6/10/1982 Upload Date: 1/29/2021 7:02:43 PM |
Location: |
Toronto, ON |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
129 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6903 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
3/1/1983 Upload Date: 1/29/2021 7:03:13 PM |
Location: |
Hammond, IN |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
124 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6903 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/11/1983 Upload Date: 4/21/2011 8:22:22 PM |
Location: |
Hamilton Junction, ON |
Author: |
Jack Smith |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
235 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Via 6903 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/1/1983 Upload Date: 12/21/2008 9:32:25 AM |
Location: |
Bayview East, ON |
Author: |
Jack Smith |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
307 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6903 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
3/10/1984 Upload Date: 7/4/2011 8:03:37 PM |
Location: |
Hammond, IN |
Author: |
Tom Golden |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
352 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA LRC-2 6903 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/27/1984 Upload Date: 7/19/2014 11:58:22 AM |
Location: |
Bayview Junction, ON |
Author: |
Alan Gaines |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
141 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LRC |
Description: |
An LRC rolls toward downtown after making its Dorval stop. |
Photo Date: |
8/26/1986 Upload Date: 12/9/2014 3:26:40 AM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
250 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Night stop |
Description: |
Train 66 from Toronto makes its Dorval stop as the last light goes |
Photo Date: |
9/6/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 4:11:33 AM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
229 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Via 6903 6914 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/25/1990 Upload Date: 11/6/2006 9:37:00 PM |
Location: |
Burlington, ON |
Author: |
Alex Simins |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6903(LRC) |
Views: |
765 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 at Windsor station ceremonial handover of first LRC train |
Description: |
On July 1, 1981 the first LRC train was a ceremonially handed over VIA at Windsor Station. The LRC units were 6901 and 6904. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/1981 Upload Date: 4/25/2015 11:14:57 AM |
Location: |
Montreal, QC |
Author: |
Jim Sandilands |
Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
459 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 on #364--The International Limited |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
2/26/1983 Upload Date: 6/18/2010 9:55:43 PM |
Location: |
Hammond, IN |
Author: |
Tom Golden |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
374 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 on #364--The International Limited |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/21/1983 Upload Date: 8/13/2011 12:08:36 AM |
Location: |
Hammond, IN |
Author: |
Tom Golden |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
219 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
6/1/1983 Upload Date: 1/27/2021 7:08:26 PM |
Location: |
Niles, MI |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
128 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
3/26/1984 Upload Date: 3/15/2013 10:33:59 PM |
Location: |
Burlington, ON |
Author: |
Robert Farkas |
Categories: |
Passenger |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
430 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 |
Description: |
(Date approximate) |
Photo Date: |
4/12/1984 Upload Date: 4/28/2011 6:44:29 PM |
Location: |
Toronto, ON |
Author: |
Robert Farkas |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
307 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA LRC 6904 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/27/1984 Upload Date: 9/14/2007 11:12:14 PM |
Location: |
Bayview Jct, ON |
Author: |
Alan Gaines |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
487 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LRC and Tempo |
Description: |
VIA 6904 leads a train of Tempo equipment out of Toronto Union Station. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1984 Upload Date: 12/23/2015 6:51:21 AM |
Location: |
Toronto, ON |
Author: |
Jeffrey Dobek |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
159 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA RDC2 6214 |
Description: |
VIA RDC2 6214 and LRC 6904 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 8, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
Photo Date: |
8/8/1984 Upload Date: 6/28/2012 9:09:42 AM |
Location: |
Toronto, ON |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6214(RDC2) VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
484 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA LRC2 6904 |
Description: |
VIA Rail Canada LRC-2 6904 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 8, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built by Bombardier around 1980 (c/n 6109-05). The following is excerpted from the book, 'A Centennial Remembrance', by Richard T. Steinbrenner. The LRC (Light Rapid Comfortable or Léger Rapide et Confortable) was a product of the Rail and Diesel Products Division of Le Entreprises de J. Armand Bombardier Ltee (Bombardier or BBD), which had purchased Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975, which in turn had been an Alco diesel locomotive licensee since 1948. The project began in 1972 as a joint venture between MLW, Alcan Canada Products, and Dominion Foundries and Steel Co. (DOFASCO). In 1973 MLW constructed a prototype locomotive and coach. The locomotive has a 12-cylinder Model 251F diesel which produced 2900 horsepower, 2000 hp for traction, 900 for auxiliary power (Head End Power, or HEP, for coach heat/air and lighting). The prototype tested for over a year at both the CNR Research Center and the US DOT Test Facility in Pueblo, CO. Although the tests were favorable, orders were not immediately forthcoming. In February 1977 Amtrak entered into a two-year lease-purchase agreement for two trainsets from the Canadian Government, which ordered them from Bombardier. The trainsets consisted of one locomotive and five cars, in accordance with MLW’s recommendation that a single locomotive was sufficient for five cars or less. As a result of the prototype testing, Bombardier made a number of significant design changes, one of which was the use of a 16-cylinder Model 251F diesel rated at 3725 hp, 2700 of which was available for traction. Amtrak’s order was scheduled for delivery in early 1979, but a seven month labor strike at Bombardier caused it to slip into 1980. Also in 1977, VIA Rail Canada, still in its formation stage, issued a solicitation for new high-speed trainsets. Bombardier was selected and an order for 10 trainsets (20 locomotives, 50 cars) was placed for delivery in 1980, but because of the strike, actual delivery began in mid-1981. A series of mechanical problems plagued initial service on the Montreal-Toronto, Montreal-Ottawa, and Toronto-Sarnia service delaying full-scale service into early 1982. VIA classed its trainsets as LRC-2 and numbered the locomotives in the 6900 series. Deliveries on this order were completed in 1982, and the following year VIA placed an order for an additional 10 locomotives and 50 cars, classed LRC-3. The second order was delivered in 1984, and locomotive #6930 had the distinction of being the final locomotive built by Bombardier for domestic service. All have since been retired. |
Photo Date: |
8/8/1984 Upload Date: 1/28/2011 11:19:16 AM |
Location: |
Toronto, ON |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
622 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/1/1989 Upload Date: 1/27/2021 7:07:46 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, ON |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
79 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6904 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/1/1989 Upload Date: 1/27/2021 7:07:13 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, ON |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6904(LRC) |
Views: |
67 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6905 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/8/1985 Upload Date: 8/5/2020 5:36:19 PM |
Location: |
Port Hope, ON |
Author: |
Robert Farkas |
Categories: |
Bridge |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
173 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
VIA 6905 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/8/1985 Upload Date: 4/5/2017 9:27:46 PM |
Location: |
Port Hope, ON |
Author: |
Robert Farkas |
Categories: |
Bridge |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
169 Comments: 5 |
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Title: |
VIA 6905 |
Description: |
Via LRC 6905 at Dorval |
Photo Date: |
11/1/1985 Upload Date: 6/28/2015 6:28:45 PM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
A Benedict Sr |
Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
201 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6905 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/11/1986 Upload Date: 4/14/2010 8:21:03 AM |
Location: |
Bayview Jct, ON |
Author: |
Jack Smith |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
279 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LRC west |
Description: |
LRC 6905 rolls west into Dorval station with train 37 for Ottawa. |
Photo Date: |
9/6/1987 Upload Date: 5/26/2015 3:13:16 PM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
223 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Via 6914 |
Description: |
VIA 53 excellerates out of Guildwood Station with LRC 6914 on the head end and 6905 pushing. |
Photo Date: |
4/10/1998 Upload Date: 1/21/2006 6:01:52 PM |
Location: |
Guildwood, ON |
Author: |
Robert Smith |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6914(LRC) VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
1146 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LRC makes a station srop |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/5/2001 Upload Date: 5/21/2010 7:59:48 PM |
Location: |
Sainte-Foy, QC |
Author: |
Paul Leach |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6905(LRC) |
Views: |
494 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6906 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/1/1983 Upload Date: 1/27/2021 7:06:33 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, ON |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6906(LRC) |
Views: |
132 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6906 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/1/1983 Upload Date: 1/27/2021 7:06:03 PM |
Location: |
London, ON |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6906(LRC) |
Views: |
131 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6906 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
9/1/1983 Upload Date: 1/27/2021 7:05:27 PM |
Location: |
London, ON |
Author: |
Tim Vermande |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6906(LRC) |
Views: |
127 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6907 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
3/29/1983 Upload Date: 3/17/2016 7:46:26 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, ON |
Author: |
Robert Farkas |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
176 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6907 (LRC) at Ottawa station |
Description: |
VIA 6907 (LRC) at the station Ottawa, ON, July 4, 1984 |
Photo Date: |
7/4/1984 Upload Date: 4/23/2013 11:15:51 PM |
Location: |
Ottawa, ON |
Author: |
Robert Proctor |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
277 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Via 6907 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
4/9/1989 Upload Date: 11/16/2006 3:05:42 PM |
Location: |
Burlington, ON |
Author: |
Alex Simins |
Categories: |
Passenger |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
531 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 26 |
Description: |
6907 is about to get in the siding to clear the way for the 27. |
Photo Date: |
5/21/1989 Upload Date: 6/1/2013 7:52:29 PM |
Location: |
st-perpetue, QC |
Author: |
pierre fournier |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
190 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Racing the sun |
Description: |
An eastbound train from Toronto makes its stop at Cornwall, racing ahead of the setting sun. It will be dark before it gets into Quebec. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/1989 Upload Date: 10/13/2015 4:16:38 AM |
Location: |
Cornwall, ON |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
109 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
6907 |
Description: |
VIA 27 passes M80 15 minutes later. |
Photo Date: |
6/16/1990 Upload Date: 4/16/2013 8:43:30 AM |
Location: |
st-leonard d,aston, QC |
Author: |
pierre fournier |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
169 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6907 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
6/15/1994 Upload Date: 2/21/2011 3:00:49 PM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Sam Botts |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
327 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Westbound with one pulling and one pushing |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/11/2001 Upload Date: 5/22/2010 5:42:08 PM |
Location: |
Pointe Claire, QC |
Author: |
Paul Leach |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
304 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA6907 |
Description: |
Being scrapped. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2010 Upload Date: 10/4/2010 8:17:12 PM |
Location: |
Montreal, QC |
Author: |
Richard Marchi |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
493 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA6907 |
Description: |
Whats left of her! |
Photo Date: |
11/17/2010 Upload Date: 11/16/2010 2:32:39 PM |
Location: |
Montreal, QC |
Author: |
Richard Marchi |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6907(LRC) |
Views: |
387 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 6908 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
6/11/1983 Upload Date: 12/22/2011 9:02:12 AM |
Location: |
UNKNOWN, MI |
Author: |
Jack Smith |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6908(LRC) |
Views: |
258 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA LRC 6908 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/26/1984 Upload Date: 9/14/2007 11:11:24 PM |
Location: |
Toronto, ON |
Author: |
Alan Gaines |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
VIA 6908(LRC) |
Views: |
443 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Well get the next one |
Description: |
Two friends and I rode the Atlantic to Moncton from Montreal. We were going to board a connecting VIA train at Dorval-its easier to park there than downtown-but we found out VIA did not handle riders from there to Montreal, even if connecting. The agent said hed get us on one of the two trains that ran one after the other. This one was not it. Apparently the conductor was something of a pill, and wasnt willing to take "shorts." Fortunately, the second train was a better option, and we made our connection. |
Photo Date: |
9/30/1989 Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:38:38 AM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6908(LRC) |
Views: |
87 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling away |
Description: |
An LRC set shoots exhaust as it pulls away from Dorval on its last lap into Montreal. |
Photo Date: |
9/6/1987 Upload Date: 5/26/2015 11:56:04 AM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6909(LRC) |
Views: |
148 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Smoking east |
Description: |
LRC 6905 accelerates out of Dorval with train 62. |
Photo Date: |
9/6/1987 Upload Date: 5/26/2015 12:33:31 PM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6909(LRC) |
Views: |
100 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
IRSI 6909 |
Description: |
At the former CN Diesel Shop now owned by IRSI. This locomotive along with the other 12 IRSI LRC unit's have been scrapped. |
Photo Date: |
6/10/2006 Upload Date: 10/29/2008 6:58:56 PM |
Location: |
Moncton, NB |
Author: |
Tim Steeves |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
IRSI 6909(LRC) |
Views: |
748 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Telltale Alco |
Description: |
Train 34 arrives at Dorval behind an LRC unit with its telltale Alco smoke. |
Photo Date: |
9/6/1987 Upload Date: 5/26/2015 3:18:46 PM |
Location: |
Dorval, QC |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6910(LRC) |
Views: |
124 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
VIA 27 |
Description: |
6910 proceeds as the 26 is well hidden in the siding at sunset. |
Photo Date: |
5/21/1989 Upload Date: 6/1/2013 7:53:43 PM |
Location: |
st-perpetue, QC |
Author: |
pierre fournier |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
VIA 6910(LRC) |
Views: |
246 Comments: 0 |
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