On January 12, 1977, VIA Rail was incorporated as VIA Rail Canada Inc. under the Canada Corporations Act and assumed the operation of all rail passenger services formerly operated by CN. VIA would soon add passenger services formerly operated by
VIA Rail Canada operated the world’s second-largest fleet of RDCs—the self-propelled, twin-engined, stainless-steel Rail Diesel Cars introduced by the Budd Company in 1949—and still employs a handful of rebuilt and modernized cars. The 84-car fleet acquired by VIA from CN
The LRC locomotives and passenger cars were introduced by VIA Rail Canada in 1981 as a made-in-Canada, next-generation passenger train, featuring low-profile, locomotive-hauled trains with active tilting to increase speed and comfort around curves. In addition to employing head-end power
VIA Rail Canada’s largest group of sleeping cars was the 52-member E-series, numbered 1110-1161 and bearing names of Canadian communities, large and small, beginning with “E”. With four open sections, four double bedrooms, and eight duplex roomettes (a “4-8-4” plan
We are currently using three non-operational RDCs purchased from VIA Rail Canada as workshop and storage space while our volunteers work to restore Edmundston, 6133, and 6215. RDC 6110, currently serving as our workshop, as the original Budd Company demonstrator
Over the weekends of Sept 24th, 25th and Sept 31st, Nov 1st Via Rail Canada TMC was able to let us back into the shop to use the drop table to finish our work, which we started over a year