VIA Rennaissance cars in the corridor!!

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Just a few minutes ago (around 3:05), I saw a VIA Rail train (a regular) heading eastbound on the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at milepost 110 (Johnstown ON, west of Brockville). The train is usually an F40 with Budd HEP cars, but today…

the lead loco was VIA’s “Oeuffs D’Or” (for some casino thing in Quebec) F40, and the consist was all Rennaissance cars!!

Here’s the thing. VIA’s Rennaissance cars don’t usually operate on the corridor, only on routes from Quebec east, and some into Ottawa from Monteal. They used to run on the corridor on the Enterprise overnight, till they scrapped that. I have never seen them on this line before. Can anyone explain? Anyone else see it?

If you’re on the corridor East of here, towards Cornwall, watch for it!

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Not really unusual. Ren. cars are used in the Corridor and Eastern Canada. VIA seems to be moving the Budd equipment around.

Now if you would have said VIA is running Ren. cars on trains 199/198, “The Malahat”, that would be something.

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Just strange that I’ve never seen any of the Rennaissance cars on this section (west of Montreal). I’ve spent days where I’ve watched every VIA train that went by (during the summer). I live just down the street from the tracks, so I can see the trains from my driveway.

If they do use them more regularly, they must strategically run them so that neither my brother or myself have managed to see a single one in the 6 years they’ve had them before yesterday.