The transition from CP and CN to VIA resulted in more than a few rainbow trains, like this eastbound racing along the plain south of the St Laurence River.

Return of Renaissance cars to the corridor. Monday saw an increase in VIA Rail service throughout the Windsor-Quebec City corridor, necessitating the return of Renaissance trainsets for the... (more)

A rare combination of a GMD and a GE wrapped unit (VIA 6416 & VIA 916) lead a slightly late VIA 64 eastwards.

The Assiniboine Park at the hind end of VIA's Canadian gets a thorough window washing at Jasper, AB before the train continues its westward journey through the Canadian Rockies.

VIA 67 is making its station stop at Dorval with VIA 909 and four HEP cars in its consist. Quite a large number of passengers are boarding here, an encouraging sign. VIA has also increased the num... (more)

A Via Rail Ottaway-Brockville passenger train meets a westbound Canadian Pacific freight at Smiths Falls, Ontario. Both the passenger and ther freight have MLW engines for power.

Return of stainless steel cars to the corridor. VIA 28 has a pair of refurbished business class cars up front as it heads towards Central Station. VIA's stainless steel cars such as these h... (more)

Fill her up. VIA's TurboTrain gets serviced in Toronto. Back then you could walk into the Foreman's office at Spadina Avenue, sign a release, grab a hard hat, and wander all around.

VIA's Budd car 186 between White River, Ontario and Sudbury, Ontario is just a few miles into the near 300 mile run across the sparsely populated boreal forest, swampy, and rocky terrain.

VIA 186 loads passengers and freight on a rare quad set RDC. The White River yard is pretty empty filled with various pieces of OCS equipment. (The intermodal car is a bad order and would go west ... (more)

Normally arriving into Montreal late in the evening, the combined VIA Rail train from northern Quebec is now entering Montreal in the morning after a mostly nocturnal run. This is a temporary meas... (more)

The Hudson Bay, VIA train 693, is heading into Thompson MB on its run from Winnipeg to Churchill, MB.

VIA 186, operating between White River and Sudbury, Ontario loads cargo/baggage and passengers for remote Northern Ontario. The past few weeks VIA has assembled four RDC's together.

Park car on the rear. Park car Banff Park is on the rear of VIA 69 as it passes underneath a vintage and endangered signal gantry in Coteau.