

LRC locomotives no longer pull VIA Rail Canada trains. The last of them was retired in 2001 and two have been preserved.
LRC was an acronym for light, rapid and comfortable and at one time it heralded a new generation of intercity passenger equipment. Some LRC equipment appeared for a time on Amtrak’s International between Chicago and Toronto.
We turn back the clock to 1987 and view LRC equipment at work in two locations a month apart.
In the top image, made on July 31, 1987, in Newcastle, Ontario, VIA 6917 and its train has a second LRC-powered train added to run as one train.
In the bottom image VIA 6913 is eastbound at Bayview Junction, Ontario, on Aug. 12, 1987.
Photographs by Robert Farkas