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List of Via Rail rolling stock

List of Via Rail rolling stock

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This is a list of past and present rolling stock owned and operated by Via Rail in Canada. Via Rail owns 78 locomotives and 619 passenger cars.[1] The tables below list that equipment by type and include some information regarding previously owned and operated equipment. When Via began operation in 19761978 it was with a collection of equipment inherited from Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP). Much of this equipment remains in use today. Over the years Via has supplemented this initial fleet with new orders and with new acquisitions of secondhand equipment from other operators.

Locomotives

Current

The EMD F40PH-2 is the mainstay of Via's road fleet.
The GE P42DC is used on Corridor services
The Siemens SCV-42 will replace current fleet for the Québec City–Windsor Corridor
The RDC-4, along with the RDC-1 and the RDC-4, run exclusively on the Sudbury - White River Train.

Via operates diesel locomotives exclusively. Its fleet of GMD F40PH-2s was recently modernized. The newer GE P42DCs are found only on Corridor services. Siemens SCV-42s were recently added to modernize the corridor fleet.

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Former

UAC TurboTrain passing Brockville in 1981.
An LRC with prototype "Renaissance" equipment in 2000.

Via inherited a diverse fleet of diesel locomotives from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. It also received three of the experimental UAC TurboTrain gas-turbine trainsets. Between 19801984 Bombardier delivered 31 LRC ("Light, Rapid, Comfortable") diesel locomotives with matching cars. The last of these was retired in 2002.

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Passenger cars

Stainless steel

The core of Via's long-range fleet is a collection of streamlined equipment originally built by the Budd Company for Canadian Pacific in the 1950s. These were rebuilt by AMF to use head end power and thus are often referred to as the "HEP" fleet. In 2023, Via Rail joined Amtrak in an attempt to replace their aging Streamliner equipment.[7]

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LRC

An LRC club car.

LRC was a series of lightweight diesel-powered passenger trains built by Bombardier that were used on short- to medium-distance inter-city service in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The LRC family includes both locomotives and passenger carriages designed to work together, though the two can be, and now are, used separately. The last locomotives were retired in 2001 but the coaches remain in service.

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Note: Via owns a singular lounge LRC car.

Renaissance

A GE P42DC with ten Renaissance coaches laying over in Toronto.

The Renaissance fleet was originally built by Alstom in the mid-1990s for the proposed Nightstar overnight service between the United Kingdom and continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel. Via acquired the entire fleet in 2000 for C$130 million after the Nightstar concept was abandoned.[9] Via entered the cars into service in 2002.[10] Presently, four sets are in service: two on the Ocean, overnight between Montreal and Halifax, and two in the corridor, between Ottawa and Quebec City.

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RDC

A pair of RDC-1s at Qualicum Beach on the now-discontinued Malahat service in 2009.

The Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC) is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar. These were used extensively by both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways for outlying routes. Via currently rosters seven RDCs and contracted with Industrial Rail Services for C$12.6 million to refurbish and upgrade all six. The upgraded units would include new seating, wheelchair accessible washrooms, LED interior lighting, controls, wiring, heating, air conditioning systems, braking systems and rebuilt engines that meet Euro 2 standards.[18] The rebuilt units have also been modified to remove the control cab from one end of each unit, so passengers are never required to pass through the cab when entering or exiting the train. Following the bankruptcy of IRSI, work rebuilding the RDCs was completed by Canadian Allied Diesel (CAD) at the IRSI facility in Moncton.

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Others

One of Via's three Colorado Railcar-built "Panorama" domes on the rear of the Canadian in 2012.
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Siemens Venture

Siemens Venture push-pull train with a cab car that has a front similar to the SCV-42 locomotive

The 2018 Canadian federal budget included funding for the purchase of 32 trainsets to replace equipment used in Corridor service in Ontario and Quebec.[20] With money allocated, Via issued a request for proposals in 2018, with delivery of the new rolling stock scheduled for 2022.[20] In December 2018, VIA Rail Canada ordered 32, 5-car trainsets (for a total of 160 cars) from Siemens for use on the Québec City–Windsor Corridor, at a cost of $989 million.[21][22] Trainsets will be powered by diesel-electric Charger locomotives, with passenger car trainsets from the Siemens Venture family.[23] Similar trainsets are used on Amtrak Midwest and Brightline in the United States, and Railjet in Austria and the Czech Republic. The first 2 trainsets entered service in 2022.

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References

  1. Via Rail. "Overview". Retrieved 2013-02-24.
  2. Weinberg, Harrison. "VIA joins Amtrak in attempting to replace aging passenger cars". trains.com. Bob Johnston. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  3. "Service cars-Dining car". viarail.ca. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. Canadians to buy all 139 Nightstars The Railway Magazine issue 1198 February 2001 page 14
  5. Night stock enters service at last Railway Gazette International August 2002 page 412
  6. "VIA Rail fleet replacement funded". Railway Gazette International. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-04-02.

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