All images are Copyright 1998 Brian Thompson,
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| The one and only time I caught VIA's problematic TurboTrain, sitting outside Union Station in Toronto. Shot at dusk when I was just a budding teenage railfan (about 1978 or '79). | Noon-hour westbound #73 slows for a station stop at Brantford with VIA #6791 in charge | A pair of steam generator-equipped RS-18's await their next passenger train assignment at CN's Spadina Shops in Toronto, Ontario. | VIA FP9 #6529 awaits its next assignment at Spadina Shops in Toronto, ONT |
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| CN RS-18 #3153 in the Tempo paint scheme, is in charge of a westbound VIA train at Bayview Junction, Hamilton, Ont. | VIA 6429 in Home Hardware scheme crosses triple rail bridge in Brantford, Ont. July 1998 | VIA FPA-4 #6782, an FP9B and two 3100-series CN RS-18's are on the point of VIA train #75, a late afternoon Toronto-Windsor passenger train which in the early 1980's would typically be 15-20coaches! | VIA FPA-4 #6771 clips along at 80 mph approaching the Oak Park Road grade crossing, located between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. |
