Early Morning Boarding @ Drummondville

Three Via Rail trains load and disembark passengers at Drummondville, QC.

1. Via Rail #21 (Quebec City-Montreal) at 7:52AM. Note train was on schedule.
2. Via Rail #20 (Montreal-Quebec City) at 8:12AM. Note train was ahead of schedule.
3. Via Rail #615 (Halifax-Montreal) at 8:40AM. Note train was roughly one hour late.

Shot on December 28th, 2009 at Drummondville, Quebec.

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[TrainmasterCurt]

Those carriages look nice, they dont send those out West

[RailfanAlex]

@TrainmasterCurt No, they only run them on the corridor.

[DaringDramis]

One hour late for the Halifax-Montréal? That isn't too bad for a 20 hours trip.

[RailfanAlex]

Not bad at all. Apparently the bad weather out in the maritimes slowed them down.

[eugenetswong]

I'm impressed at how long you are willing to wait in the cold, just to capture an image of a train.

Thanks.

[RailfanAlex]

lol, it's fun! I wouldn't do it if it wasnt enjoyable.

[Lifty4ever]

@TrainmasterCurt yea but they no longer send out the skyline cars east. and i use the ocean all the time when i go on vaca

[Lifty4ever]

whenever i am on the ocean i know when we r leaving cause i always feel the stairs folding in

[BRU11ROAD]

These Coaches are from the UK and are the ex Nightstar rolling stock for the ill fated nightime sleeper sevice though the Channel tunnel the idea was to make a rolling hotel on wheels as you can see in the film they were built to the UK loading gauge

[NeoArashi]

@eugenetswong True Railfans will be willing to wait under any weather. Some people wait in the cold like this guy. I once waited under sever thunderstorm. (though when the train left the station, the weather had calmed down)

[drum3433]

At 7:00 the crew mwmber did not precede the passenger down the stairs to assist her. Given the winter conditions I would consider that poor customer service and not in the best tradition of rail passenger service in Canada.

[RailfanAlex]

@Datsyukiandangles13 One of these days... I will!

[jamie514]

Great video. Apparently the Renaissance were subsequently taken off QC runs because they wanted to deploy rebuilt F40s there (as you see here), but the F40s were having problems accellerating these longer trains. Originally they ran with P42. Now QC trains are mostly back to 3-4 LRC coaches and F40s like 10 years ago. I think the Renaissance have finally found their niche at VIA on the Ocean and the 52/53/66/67.

[jamie514]

@BulletNoseBetty no they fold. the old blue coaches inherited from CN were the trap type you describe, but the silver Budd fleet (at least all the ones I've seen) do have the fold up stairs. The stairs on the Renaissance equipment were replaced after a season as the british solution was not standing up to Canadian weather. What the went with was very similar to the LRC/HEP1 folding system.

[northlanderdude]

@BulletNoseBetty how are they annoying ?

the stairs on the budd's do fold and unfold !

as a former coach cleaner, I've examined them cause I was curious to know how they worked !

[BulletNoseBetty]

@northlanderdude Actually, the unfolding stairs were a real problem in the beginning (now they're just annoying). Also, the stairs on the Budds don't fold up. They just have a lifting platform that covers the stairs.