During an hour long stop at Jasper, VIA 6412 will be picked up and added to the Canadian to dead head it east for servicing. VIA 6432 is the lead unit on the passenger train.
Only 2 broad gauge trains currently reach Kamlapur, the main station in Dhaka. Here ALCO clone 6412 nears Kamlapur with the Silk City Express, 0730 from Rajshahi.
Local fishing boats sit the weekend away waiting for their crews to return during the week. Meanwhile the crew of VIA Rail's train 16/17, The Chaleur, work east along the Gaspe Peninsula on this w... (more)
With blue skies overhead VIA Rail train 17, The Chaleur starts its 19-hour journey west back to Montreal, Quebec and passes the beaches at Douglastown, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. 10-years and ... (more)