Evening Parade of VIA AMT CP & CN Trains Dorval QC 17 June 1999

VIA's LRC-3 & F40PH-2s as well as AMT FP7As & GP9us, CPs SD40-2s, SOO's SD60s, CN SD75Is and an SD50F and even a Conrail SD40-2 are all seen and heard at Dorval station Montreal QC on the evening of 17 June 1999.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Fascinating what looks like pretty old rolling stock modernized with sliding doors, and a boxcar converted to a generator car. And all hauled by a GP9!

[@j_eldridge]

Nice video! Keep up the great work!

[@david-othen]

+Josh Eldridge Thank you.

[@Railfan225]

Love the first unit!!!

[@ThatOneExoRailfan]

I wish these were still in service

[@Elliottblancher]

The faded blue boxcar at 16:40 looks like a former Norwood and St Lawrence Railroad boxcar.

[@gpphx]

Wow. Did AMT run some old tourist train equipment? All the locos and coaches (excluding cabcars) back in 1999 look so beat up. It doesn't look like any of the trains had equipment prior to the 1980's. until the consist at the 8:49 mark. Great Video Though!

[@david-othen]

Much of the equipment was formerly used in CP commuter service and was built in the 1950s.

[@gpphx]

That's crazy. Incredible that they were using such old equipment. Great to see that they have updated their rolling stock since 1999.

[@david-othen]

+gpphx Not at all - they were well built. The Budd stainless steel coaches that VIA uses today were also built in the late 1950s and have been refurbished several times. They are in much better shape than the British Renaissance equipment that was built about 20 years ago for the Channel Tunnel.

[@davidjames38589]

The AMT coaches became tourist train equipment after they were done with them. I think Iowa Interstate ran a few steam excursions with them.

[@marcleslac2413]

@@david-othen plus recently a couple of dicks decided it be funny to set fire to 2 abandonned 1950s cars including prototype 801.

[@trainrover]

it interests me how those rolling steam plants got overlooked

[@northlanderdude]

your mystery F40PH-2 at 14:30 was 6436.

[@ericcharles8081]

LRC ❤

[@EastTexasRailfan]

What is the car behind the locomotive on most of those trains, is it some sort of generator?

[@TrainGeek]

I'm pretty sure they are steam generators to supply heat to the passenger cars.

[@EastTexasRailfan]

Steve Boyko I thought the locomotive supplied that, must just be the repurposed GP9u's

[@TrainGeek]

Charles Henry Peckham some locos were built with a steam generator in the short hood but any freight loco or former freight loco would need a steam generator car.

[@EastTexasRailfan]

Steve Boyko and the geep9'sneers former freight!

[@jamie514]

They are actually HEP generators. When the modern Bombardier Comet fleet was added, HEP generators became necessary on most trains as the old FP7 and GP9's in use had either no or insufficient HEP capability. Occasionally in summer months if there was only a comet cab car (heavy hep load with HVAC) and the rest of the consist was made of 1950's CC&F lightweight ex-CP commuter stock (light HEP demand with electric baseboard heating turned off) certain of the FP7 locos were by this time equipped to provide the required HEP from their own small onboard generator. That is why not every train with FP7 has one of the generator boxcars. Same for the commuter train towards the end of the tape pulled by VIA 6457. The CC&F cars with "schoolbus" style windows had long been converted to electrical baseboard heating by this time.

[@Transitfan93]

When did the AMT introduce double decker trains? I notice a majority of the AMTs are single level

[@david-othen]

+Transitfan93 The CP commuter cars that MUTC (later AMT) inherited were double deckers. Then they purchased some second hand GO cars most of which were modified to have a door that matched the high level platforms in Montreal Central station and finally new bilevel coaches built by Bombardier starting in 2000.

[@Transitfan93]

another question is when did the AMT unveiled their current logo, I noticed there was none

[@david-othen]

+Transitfan93 Sorry I do not know except that it was a couple of years ago. I live 800 miles from Montreal so I am not there very often!

[@marcleslac2413]

@@david-othen to add to this, last year 8 of the 9 galley cars exept car 900 were scrapped after 10 years of storage. 900 was donated to exporail.

[@LanceCampeau]

its a shame that invasive weeds have now totally destroyed the sight lines on this rail line.

[@david-othen]

+LanceCampeau Unfortunately this is a widespread problem along railway tracks across the country.

[@marcleslac2413]

Why did some trains have comet cars and a single old cp car before the engine i dont get it

[@AndreiTupolev]

FP7's still in service then?!

[@sunylight]

Omg

[@schnuurtchke]

GO EMD

[@user-yy4wb9qz3y]

in which country is this 🤔🤔🤔

[@AndreiTupolev]

Canada

[@malinalungu407]

The GTA 2 Era

[@ThatOneExoRailfan]

That's pine beach not dorval

[@henryderymacneil1707]

pine beach is in Dorval lol.

[@henryderymacneil1707]

and it is dorval station

[@TheActualKingOfRailfanning]

Why dose cn have cr

[@Elliottblancher]

The conrail Locomotive was foriegn power which was a common thing to see in north America.

[@christophercoleman3980]

time to milk the cows moooooooo lamo.