Canadian Railiners

Canadian CN Railiners/ CP Dayliners
Rail Diesel Cars (RDC)

When is the last time you saw a CN Railiner (or a CP Dayliner) on the prairies? The last scheduled (freight) train on the CNR Drumheller Subdivision operated on 02 Dec 2008 so you can imagine my surprise to see a Railiner on the remnant of the subdivision between Calgary's Sarcee Yard and Lyalta, the current end of operated track, 17.4 miles to the north east of Calgary, on 19 Apr 2010!
CN does operate an occasional local freight from Sarcee Yard to the Louis Dreyfus grain facility near Lyalta, perhaps a couple of times per month. The last passenger train to run on this section of the Drumheller Sub was CNR No. 10 on 16 May 1963 from Calgary to Saskatoon. The Railiner in question is CNR's # 1501 Track Geometry Car. As it was operating at just over 15 miles per hour, I was able to photograph it at seven locations in 17 miles. Not another rail photographer to be seen; it sure can be a lonely task...

Cor van Steenis
Chestermere, Alberta, Canada

Cor van Steenis has given me permission to show these pictures on my site.
Many thanks go out to him. They are truly amazing pictures.

Cor van Steenis
Chestermere, Alberta, Canada

Cor van Steenis has given me permission to show these pictures on my site.
Many thanks go out to him. They are truly amazing pictures.

	Noisy and awkward, gas-powered passenger car Canadian National railcar 15813, locally called "The Galloping Goose", carried mail and 30 passengers twice daily between Victoria and Leechtown north of Sooke BC, from 1922 to 1931. when the gold ran out and the town died, passenger service was abandoned but freight service continued until the 1990s with steam and then diesel locomotives between Victoria and Sooke. After the rails were removed, the Selkirk trestle on which it ran on was vandalized but it was repaired and in 1996, the "Galloping Goose Trail" was officially inaugurated. View the Selkirk trestle on my bridge page http://yourrailwaypictures.com/TrainBridges/indexBC.html
Submitted by Massey F. Jones and used with the permission of the Canada Science Technology Museum
	One of the first self-propelled cars in Alberta was this British-built Baguley "petrol-hydraulic" (gasoline) passenger car, which ran around Lacombe, Rimbey and Bentley, in East Central Alberta on the Lacombe and Blindman Valley Electric Railway; connecting with the Calgary & Edmonton Railway (CPR) at Lacombe. Although the line was meant to be electrified, the charter allowed other means of propulsion. The railcar proved to be very unreliable and had a tendency to derail on curves. Adding to it, the company leased older rolling stock, including a tiny 0-4-0 saddle locomotive from the Alberta and Great Waterways Railways (NAR). A flatcar modified to act as a tender was added, as well as a combine, in what came to be known as "The Peanut Line". The provincial government took over the line in 1918 and reorganized it as the Lacombe and Northwestern Railway. It sold the line to the Canadian Pacific, which renamed it the Hoadley Subdivision. Mixed trains ran 3 times a week and currently, local freights serve the area on an irregular basis out of Red Deer. More (including this picture) at http://www.forthjunction.com/blindman-valley-railway.htm
Massey F. Jones collection
	CPR 9004 Oil/Electric was built by the St. Louis Car Co. in 1930. It is shown on route to Guelph Junction, April 26, 1958
This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the "Jim Parker Collection"
	CPR 9004 Oil/Electric #60027 at Fort Erie Ont. April 1975
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CPR 9004 Oil/Electric #60027 at Fort Erie Ont. April 1975
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR EX Oil Electric #60026 Work Service at Belville Ont. June 1964
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR EX Oil Electric #60027 Work Train Service at Niagara Falls Ont. March 1972
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR 9000 Oil-Electric Self-propelled car

	CNR 9000 Oil-Electric Self-propelled car

	Drawing #15821 Builder Ottawa CNRys. 1925 Gas Electric Self Propelled Rail Car
Jim Parker Collection
	Drawing #1543-4 Builder National Steel Car Co. 1931 Gas Electric Self Propelled Rail Car
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15817
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15817
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15817 with connection to a Trailer
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15820
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15820
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15823 at Toronto Ont. Oct 7, 1940
This picture was taken by Peter Cox and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR Gas-Electric #15824
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15825 at Montreal P.Q. April 28, 1938
This picture was taken by Peter Cox and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR Gas-Electric #15826 at Edmonton AB May 18, 1946
This picture was taken by Peter Cox and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR Gas-Electric #15832 at Transcona P.Q. May 21, 1957
This picture was taken by Peter Cox and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR Gas-Electric #15836 at Stratford Ont. July 16, 1960
Jim Parker Collection
	CNR Gas-Electric #15844 at Toronto Ont. 1950's
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Norfolk

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Norfolk

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Lyalta

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Chestermere

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Norfolk

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Lyalta

	CN Railiner 1501 (Track Geometry Car) at Sarcee Yard Calgary

	Railiner CN 9002; model RDC-9, seen here in in the mid-70s at Spadina Yard in downtown Toronto. Spadina Yard has since been demolished and the RDC retired View the CN Tower and the Royal York Hotel in the background. It's always nice to trace the car's "lineage". The unit was built by Budd in 1956 (serial #6403) and started service as Boston & Maine 6902, then became CN D502 and CN 6002 before it was sold to VIA 6002 and retired between 1986-88 for storage at Les Cedres (formerly Cedars), on Montreal's West Island..
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	Railiner CN 6302, just outbound from Toronto's Union Station and now at Sunnyside, probably on the way to Niagara Falls in the mid 70s. It was built by Budd in 1957 as an RDC-3 and numbered D-302. After being sold to VIA Rail, it became renumbered 6220 because the 6300 series was taken by rebuilt FP diesel locomotives. View a picture of the RDC in VIA scheme (still as 6302) at: http://www.cnrphotos.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_ itemId=14939 Notice the TTC Red Rocket in the background, still in regular service at that point.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6002 at Toronto Ont. Sept 1971
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6006 at Toronto Ont. May 1969
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6110 at Niagra Falls Ont. Sept 1971
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6111 at Toronto Ont. Sept 1971
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6114 at Brampton Ont. May 1975
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC3 Railiner #6352 at Niagra Falls Ont. March 1972
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC3 Railiner #6355 at Toronto Ont. May 1969
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC4 Railiner #6453 at Toronto Ont. June 1973
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC2 D205 Railiner #6205 at W. Toronto Ont. Selt 1967
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6101 at Toronto Ont. June 1973
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6103 at Toronto Ont. July 1973
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC3 Railiner at Toronto Ont. April 1969
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC1 Railiner #6105 at Toronto Ont. June 1973
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CNR BUDD RDC3 Railiner
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	Greater Winnipeg Water District Self Propelled Rail Liner
This picture was submitted by Arthur Grieve, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The following series of Self Propelled GO Cars was taken by Phil Mason in 1975 and submitted by Jean Guy Hamel, Quebec, Canada
	GO 9825 at Union Station, Toronto, ON

	GO 9832 Self Propelled Car

	GO Servicing Facility at Mimico, Ontario

	New HS Single Decks at Mimico ON

	A Toronto Transit H-5 car, on the Bloor-Danforth line, short of Kennedy Station, painted in an experimental scheme for higher visibility in the very early 80s One such car was 5807 and research has indicated that there were only 4 such cars repainted, as the TTC eventually reverted to the bare metal look, such as for those in the background. View another image of it from the ground, at http://transit.toronto.on.ca/photos/images/ttc-h5 -train-19810520.jpg
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. JonesI
	GO CC&F Control Coach June 1984
This picture was taken by Alan Campbell and was submitted by Jim Parker
	GO Coach #2025 June 1984
This picture was taken by Alan Campbell and was submitted by Jim Parker
	BC33 in green livery, passing through a bridge, very likely near Vancouver. This scanned photo is from the cover of the British Columbia Railway July 1st 1974 timetable. BC33 in the last days of BC Rail, was painted in blue and silver. Budd b/n 6601 (Dec 56), this RDC-3 is now the property of the West Coast Railway Association in Squamish BC BCRail's passenger operations ceased in September 2002
This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones
	A Pacific Great Eastern RDC over one of the many bridges along the route between Vancouver and Prince George, scanned from the 1971-72 timetable cover. PGE ("Prince George Eventually" as it was known in its early days) ceased to exist under the Pacific Great Eastern name in 1972 and became British Columbia Railway. At one time, PGE/BCR owned a fleet of some 15 Budd RDCs. When passenger service ceased on the BCR after nearly 100 years, RDCs who weren't previously wrecked, were either sold or scrapped. BC33 (seen on another photo on this page) was repainted from blue and silver, to PGE colours, by the West Coast Railway Association for operation within its museum BCR was absorbed by CN in 2004.
This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones
	BCR 503 at North Vancouver, BC June 1987 pulling a RDC

	BCR BC-33 RDC at Quesnel, BC, May 1988
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	BCR BC30 at Quesnel BC, Apr, 1988
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	BCR BC12 at Quesnel BC, Apr 1988
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	BR 142049 at New Westminster BC, Aug 1986
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	In this view, a string of Dayliners (RDCs), inbound from Montreal's West Island is just a couple of minutes away from its Windsor Station terminal on a snowy day, when it meets with what seems to be an early Bombardier LRC doing a test run, as evidenced by just a couple of cars behind the engine and no VIA logo. Let's date it about 1975, in pre-VIA Rail days.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	BVIA Budd RDC1 %6101 Sept 1981
This picture was taken by Allen and submitter by Kim Parker
	VIA 6213 at Courtenay BC, Nov 1988
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	VIA Rail 6120 and 6206 at London, ON, Aug 1987
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	VIA Rail 6208 at London, ON, Aug 1987
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	VIa Rail 6212 at London Ont. July 1984
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	VIA Rail 6133 in the CP Shop at Victoria BC Late 1990's
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB
	CPR 9054 on a curve, approaching Ste-Rose station , on the Montreal-Mont Laurier line in the early 70s in the "War Paint" cheme. Ste-Rose is now a district of Laval, an island north of Montreal and the RDC is destined for Windsor Station. I frequently used the Dayliner back and forth to proceed to my parents' place near the station, while stationed in Montreal with the Canadian Forces in the mid 70s Notice the rotating Mars light on the door and the single number board, subsequently modified on later RDCs. CPR 9054, built in 1953, was sold to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) in 1983 as their #54. After retirement, it was acquired by the Illinois Transit Assembly Corp and is now displayed at the National Transportation Museum, St. Louis, MI., still carrying it's MBTA #54 roadnumber. http://transportmuseumassociation.org/passenger_ cars.htm
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	A trio of Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) just out Union Station, probably heading for Niagara Falls. The first two are ex-CP and the rear one is ex-CN (still in its old paint) The photo was taken in the late 70s through the glass from the footbridge access to the CN Tower. All that area is now occupied by the Roger Centre (ex Skydome) and other buildings. In this view, rail activity is still going on in a far distance to the right. .
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	CPR Budd Car RDC3 #9022 at Smiths Falls Ont June 1964
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker
	CP 91, ex CP 9108 (Budd RDC-2 7/1956). After extensive revenue runs in the Montreal area, the RDC was taken out of service and modified to a Railway Technology Exhibit/Instruction Car. At the end of its life cycle, the 91 sat forlorn for months outside in the weather at Calgary's Ogden Shops before finding a home at the Alberta Central Railway Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta. View the car in its new home at: http://www.abcentralrailway.com/dieselcar.html This photo was taken at the Industrial Yard, on 9 Ave (in front of Fort Calgary) on December 9th, 2002; just before CP91 found its way to the museum for preservation
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	CP91 (Ex CP9108) stored at Ogden Yard (now Alstom) in southeast Calgary, circa summer 2000, after completing Company Service as an Exhibit/Instruction car. View a photo of the 91, below this picture, on its way to preservation at the Alberta Centran Railway Museum in Wetaskiwin, a few miles northeast of Calgary.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	Canadian Pacific 9064 in goalie mask scheme, subsequequently VIA 6139. In 1978 the unit was sold by VIA Rail to Dallas Area Transit, who renumbered it as DART 2009 and used it in the "Trinity Railway Express". Read all about it at http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr047.htm and scroll to their 2009 to see the unit in blue an silver paint. The photo is taken at an unknown location, likely in the Laurentians, during a fantrip with the St Lawrence Valley Railway Society (CRHA) out of Montreal in the mid 70s. The back was preferred, to take advantage of full sun on the RDC. A careful look will reveal the "extra" flags at the other end by the door.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	Dayliner CP 9064 almost at the end of a runpast on the Fort Coulonge Bridge during a St. Lawrence Valley (CRHA) fantrip during the mid-70s. Shortly thereafter, the line was due to be abandoned by CP. The purpose of the fantrip was to have a ride on a line before the rail was torn up.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	Fort Coulonge is named after Nicholas d'Ailleboust, Sieur de Coulonge, who formed a settlement near there in 1694-95. It eventually became a Hudson's Bay trading post on the Ottawa River and most of the area was developed in the mid-1800s, including the bridge, which was installed in 1887.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	At one time, Fort Coulonge was the site of a large sawmill, due to the large amount of forest around and gave rise to folk tales about those famous Canadian lumberjacks, kept alive at the nearby Chute Coulonge (Coulonge Falls) http://www.chutescoulonge.qc.ca/trails_6.htm . A map on the link will give the location of nearby Fort Coulonge.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	E&N (CP) 9199 in "War Paint" scheme at Malahat BC in the mid-70s Malahat is in the Cowichan Valley, about 30 km northwest of Victoria and it was served by VIA until 2011, by the Victoria-Courtenay "Dayliner" (RDC) cars. There is no more rail passenger service on Vancouver Island
Massey F. Jones collection
	VIA RDC 6148 southbound near Townsite Road in Nanaimo BC, 8 May 2003. The train is a few minutes short of the station, which burned down in August 2007. (see my Station page) VIA rail service on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, linking Victoria to Courtney was suspended on March 18th 2011, after 125 years, due to steadily rotting ties and lack of money to fix them. A bus charter was started between the two cities, with the hope that rail service will be eventually reinstated but it appears very much in question, as VIA has been wanting to abandon the line for some time. Meanwhile, the two RDCs on the Island were moved from Victoria in May, to long term covered storage at Nanaimo.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	Southbound VIA dayliner 6134, in front of the historic Nanaimo station on May 8, 2007. The RDC provides daily service between Victoria and Courtnay BC on Vancouver Island, a 4.5 hour trip. Nanaimo is about half-way. The station normally opened only 30 min. prior to train arrival but did not provide any amenities, hence the catering truck.4 months after the photo was taken, in the wee hours of August 16, 2007, a fire gutted the southwest portion of building (red portion behind the truck), starting at the exterior and spreading quickly inside the the somewhat neglected wood station. The news item and excellent picture of the damage is at: http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html The E&N Railway Station is one of the city's top six heritage buildings and has both federal and municipal heritage status. Built by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1920, the building is owned by the Island Corridor Foundation. The foundation was considering a major renovation to the station before the blaze. Plans are made to restore the exterior historic landmark and modernize the interior, as it forms a piece of Old Nanaimo. Access my Stations page for a view at the undamaged building.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	VIA 6144, inbound from Edmonton and about 5 minutes away from the Calgary station in the spring of 1985. Later that year, the Calgary-Edmonton corridor service would be terminated, due to frequent crossing accidents and other factors. I rode the last "Dayliner" northbound to Edmonton. We stopped at Tuttle (just short of Red Deer) where the northbound met the southbound and they briefly exchanged greetings before proceeding, each on their last run. The VIA runs usually left Calgary and Edmonton around 5:30pm to accomodate commuting workers. There have been plans made to re-instate the service by another means, through private track but the project is still under study. The Calgary-Edmonton corridor is the busiest in Western Canada approximately 260 km long (about 3 hours by car), Presently, people must drive or fly. Edmonton International is several miles from downtown, in Nisku AB. http://www.vanhorne.info/files/vanhorne/HSRFull Report(1062004).pdf will present a very advanced study on the subject. A less learned study can be found at: http://www.albertahighspeedrail.com/routeMap.html There are 3 possible alternative routes. VIA 6144 has a long history; being modified along the way from a CN RDC-3 (a baggage compartment and 48 passenger seats) to an RDC-1 for VIA (90 passenger seats) and renumbered from CN D101 to CN 6350, then to VIA 6144. Ex-CN Rail Diesel Cars have the number board on the roof, while on CPR RDCs, it is on the face above the windows (compare it with a photo of VIA 6134 at Nanaimo, on this page)
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	VIA Dayliner crossing the Bow River in Calgary July 20, 1985, bound for Edmonton on the CP Red Deer Sub. Service was discontinued shortly thereafter
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	The lone Budd car has just left Calgary daily at 1730, enroute to Edmonton, on the CPR Red Deer Sub, in this view taken from the 16 Ave bridge. Long ago, VIA decided to terminate the commuter service, after several major accidents at some of the 100 or so farm crossings. Several attempts have been made to revive the run in the form of a high speed train that would wisk passengers in about 2 hours, in what would be one of the busiest rail corridors, next to the Windsor-Quebec City portion. Two routes have been proposed http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/07/21/calgary -edmonton-corridor-next -up-for-train-improvements / Cost (about $60 one-way) and other semantics seem to always get in the way; with the project on the back burner for some time, then resurfacing periodically. A brief trial took place on the CPR Red Deer Sub, with a Bombardier bullet train and no passengers but the (diesel) unit was found to be unsuitable. Many of the studies done on the project are now very outdated.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	Wearing the "hockey mask scheme", a CPR RDC is winding its way along Blue Sea Lake in (90 km/56 mi) north of Ottawa/Gatineau on a runpast during a Canadian Railway Historical Association (CRHA) fantrip during the early 70s. During a runpast, the motive power stops at a picturesque spot, all passengers alight; the motive power backs up about a mile and everyone gets to take a photo as it goes by "with all bells and whistles", after which everyone then reboards.. Today, this is no longer possible, due to high insurance premiums that must be paid in case of accident.
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	For many years in the 1970s, this combination of CPR RDCs provided morning and afternoon commuter service between Windsor station and West Island communities at the toe of Montreal Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Island They were eventually replaced by double-decker cars, (shown on the CPR Page). Today, the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT; English: Metropolitan Transportation Agency) still provides the link between downtown Montreal and Hudson QC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudreuil-Hudson_Line_(AMT) with modern diesel electric locomotives and double decker cars in push-pull operation
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones
	At least 3 CN Railiners at Calder Yard in Edmonton (now Walker Yard) in the mid-70s, before VIA took over CN passenger operation . They mostly operated on branchlines such as to Stettler AB but not between Calgary and Edmonton, which was serviced by CP
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones

	CPR Budd Car RDC3 #9023 at Sault Ste Marie Ont. April 1975
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker
	CPR Budd Car RDC3 #9023 at Sault Ste Marie Ont. April 1975
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker
	CPR Budd Car RDC1 #9049 at Leaside Ont July 1967
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker
	CPR Budd Car RDC1 #9050
This picture was submitted bu Jim Parker and is part of the Jim Parker collection
	CPR Budd Car RDC1 #9055 at Duncan BC June 1967
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker
	CPR Budd Car RDC2 #9109 at Smiths falls Ont. June 1964
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker
	CPR Budd Car RDC2 #9110 at Toronto Ont. July 1967
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker
	CPR Budd Car RDC2 #9110 at Toronto Ont. July 1967
This picture was taken and submitted bu Jim Parker

The British Rail cars were used as demonstrators during
Expo 86. Probably got sent back to England after the demonstration period was over.

This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB

Electric motor 6733 exiting the tunnel into a trench at
PORTAL HEIGHTS along the Deux Montagnes line.
The stop was formerly named CANORA after the
CAnadian NOrthern RAilway, the ancestor of CN. One
of 6 m.u.
motors built in 1952, pulling 88-seat trailers in commuter service, CN 6733 operated with other electrics through the Mount Royal Tunnel from a platform at Gare
Centrale/Central Station in downtown Montreal,
well into the 70s .
http://raakone.hubpages.com/hub/The-Deux-Montagnes-
Line-and-the-Mount-Royal-Tunnel
Deux Montagnes (French for Two Mountains), is a
bedroom community in the Montreal area.

Constructed in 1914, the tunnel became necessary to
prevent CN trains from going a log way around the
Island of Montreal, as was the case with their
competitors, the Canadian Pacific (CPR) and
Grand Trunk Railway (GTR)
The bore measures approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) and
has an ascending grade of 0.6% from Gare Centrale
to the end of the tunnel. Tunnel boring started from
each end and met in the middle in 1913, with an
alignment error less than one
inch (2.5 cm)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Royal_Tunnel

VIA Rail trains to/from Northern Quebec and the northern
route to Quebec City (Jonquiere) also used the tunnel until
cancelled in 1990.
Due to a small ventilation shaft in the middle, all trains t
hrough the tunnel had to be pulled by CN electric boxcab cab locomotives. A pair of newer GE steeple cab 1100hp 86-ton locos (675 and 6727) pulling conventional passenger cars, also formed part of the commuter fleet. View everything including construction, rail stock described above and the other portal
of this tunnel (before Gare Centrale became covered in 1943 after being in construction for some time but stopped due to the Great Depression.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_electric/
MRT_gallery.htm

You can see the interior of Gare Centrale at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Station_(Montreal)

Today (after changing the electrical system from 2400V DC
to 25000V AC and the catenary), electrified commuter
trains from the Agence Metropolitaine de Transport (AMT)
still provide commuter service to Deux Montagnes through
the Mount Royal Tunnel.

Also shown is Electric motor 6732

This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones

CNR Battery storage powered passanger car #15798
The Jitney, built in 1937 and retired in 1961.
This self propelled rail car was used to make four round
trips everyday except Sunday between
Lunenburg NS and Mahone Bay NS

This picture was taken at the Halifax & Southwestern Railway Museum,
Lunenburg Nova Scotia

West Coast Express units 107 and 108 sit idle on
a stub track east of the downtown CPR station between rush-hour only runs. In the evening, they will be backed
into the station. At the other end, is an F59PH1 diesel locomotive. Each double-decker (built by Bombardier)
sits 144 people and serves 11,000 daily at 8 stations,
westbound from Mission in the morning and eastbound
from downtown Vancouver in the afternoon.

This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones




The Steam Engines of the CNR	The Steam Engines of the CPR


Canadian Train Stations	The Grain Elevators of Western Canada	Untimely End


Canadian Cabooses	Canadian Railway Artifacts	Train Bridges and Trestles

Canadian Railway Tunnels with a detailed look at the CPR Spiral Tunnels	Canadian Old Logging Equipment and Steam and Diesel Locomotives	Old Canadian Rolling Stock

The Scrap Yard	The Halifax & South-Western Museum	Old Canadian Rolling Stock Freight Cars


Electric Locomotives and Street Cars	CP Locomotives	Industrial and on Site Diesel Locomotives


The Newfoundland Railway		Robot Cars

Two site worth looking at.

The Memory Lane Railway Museum in Middleton, Nova Scotia.
The only exclusive Dominion Atlantic Railway museum in the world

Welcome to the DAR DPI
A web community initiative intent on digitally preserving
the history of the Dominion Atlantic Railway

Links

	Where we live and what we do

	A Nova Scotia Snow Storm Hits Summerville

	The Steam Locomotives of the CPR

	The Steam Engines of the CNR

	Railway Maintenance Equipment And Old Railway Rolling Stock

	Train Bridges and Trestles

	Canadian Railway Tunnels

	The Grain Elevators of Western Canada

	Canadian National Railways Motive Power Statistics Index

	Jerry Barnes' Garden Railway, The SCRR

	The Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society

	Historic Aircraft Pictures

	Visit John's Old Car and Truck Pictures

	The Yard Limit's page on the Windsor & Hantsport Railway (WHRC)

	CN Pensioners' Association

	The Stanley Steamer For all you steam fans, this page is a must

	Visit Lonnie Hedgepeth's of Rocky Mount, North Carolina site. He has used the plans provided on Covered Bridge Plans webpage and is building a Covered Bridge for his Live Steam train. Many new pictures have been added including pictures of his Live Steam Engine

	The building trades class at Darlington HS in Darlington, Wisconsin built this covered bridge for a local business man

	Tour the 64 remaining Covered Bridges of New Brunswick

	The Covered Bridges that once dotted Nova Scotia.

	Lilies From the Valley A Vast selection of Oriental and Asiatic previously cut commercially grown bulbs ready for shipment anywhere in Canada

	Visit my Jeep page A Picture Review of the Jeeps from 1940 to the present

	A Picture Review of the Nash, Hudson and the cars of American Motors

	A Picture Review of the Hudsons and Terraplanes that were found in Australia

	A Picture Review Studebaker

	A Picture review of the Packard

	A Picture Review of the Pickup Truck from 1940 to 1969

	A Picture review of the Volkswagen

	A Picture Tour of the Kaiser Frazer

	A Picture Tour of the Henry J

	A Picture Tour of the Crosley

	A Picture Review of the Chevrolet from 1916 tto 1970

	A Picture Review of the Ford from 1908 to 1969

	The Chrysler Airflow

	View some of John' Evan's Artwork This site has quite a collections of John's artwork. View these old cars as you haven't before.

	Eric Gordon's Kaiser Rebuild There are many pictures showing the details of this Rebuild

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http://yourrailwaypictures.com/ does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on http://yourrailwaypictures.com/.
.:: Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to http://yourrailwaypictures.com/ and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

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These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on http://yourrailwaypictures.com/ send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

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You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. http://yourrailwaypictures.com/'s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

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