Vintage Button for VIA LRC
The LRC locomotives and passenger cars were introduced by VIA Rail Canada in 1981 as a made-in-Canada, next-generation passenger train, featuring low-profile, locomotive-hauled trains with active tilting to increase speed and comfort around curves. In addition to employing head-end power (HEP) they offered many other improvements over earlier conventional equipment, including significant reductions in weight and fuel consumption.
Developed by the consortium of MLW (later, Bombardier), Alcan and Dofasco, the LRC’s origins date to the late 1960s. Evaluation of a test-bed locomotive and coach by CN followed in the mid-1970s. After the construction of two locomotives and ten cars for lease and evaluation by Amtrak in the United States, the LRC went into full production when 50 coaches and 10 locomotives (later increased to 21) were ordered by VIA Rail Canada in 1977. They constituted VIA Rail’s first brand-new equipment, and began entering scheduled service on the Quebec-Windsor Corridor in October 1981. In 1984, VIA’s LRC fleet grew with the addition of 50 more coaches and 10 more locomotives.
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Measures about 2 1/4" across
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