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2/4/2025
 
 
 
 
 
By:Gary Everhart
Dates:6/1/1972 - 6/1/1977
Album Info:Recently acquired 8x10" photos of the prototype testing done on the LRC (light, rapid, comfortable) locomotive and coach set done in 1972 through 1977. The photos were re-posted on 2/3/2025 after the RRPA crash.
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VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Title:  VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Description:  This is one of the preliminary pre-production test runs for lightweight diesel-powered passenger trains that were planned for medium-distance inter-city service in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:41 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VIA PROTOTYPE(LRC)
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VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Title:  VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Description:  This is another pre-production test run of the LRC designed for VIA done between 1972-77.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:42 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VIA PROTOTYPE(LRC)
Views:  3   Comments: 0
VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Title:  VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Description:  This is an overhead view of one of the test runs for the pre-production LRC (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) passneger train planned for VIA. sometime between 1972-77.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:43 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VIA PROTOTYPE(LRC)
Views:  3   Comments: 0
VIA PROTOTYPE
Title:  VIA PROTOTYPE
Description:  Here is a close up view of the pre-production prototype LRC power unit being tested for use on VIA passenger service in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This was taken sometime between 1972-77.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:44 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VIA PROTOTYPE(LRC)
Views:  4   Comments: 0
VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Title:  VIA LRC PROTOTYPE
Description:  Nice color shot of the pre-production test run of the light rail LRC being developed for VIA for use in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This was taken sometime between 1972-77.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:45 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VIA PROTOTYPE(LRC)
Views:  6   Comments: 0
VIA LRC Pamplet - English version
Title:  VIA LRC Pamplet - English version
Description:  This was part of the 1978 public information about the newly designed LRC (Light Rapid, Comfortable) unit passenger train for the Canadian VIA.
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:37 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  4   Comments: 0
VIA LRC Pamplet - French version
Title:  VIA LRC Pamplet - French version
Description:  This was part of the 1978 public information about the newly designed LRC (Light Rapid, Comfortable) unit passenger train for the Canadian VIA.
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 2/3/2025 5:10:39 PM
Location:  Unknown, QC
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  3   Comments: 0


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