File:An Electric to Diesel Change Above Mount Royal Tunnel (34200227974).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionAn Electric to Diesel Change Above Mount Royal Tunnel (34200227974).jpg |
The electrics have cut off and will clear. I always thought of the line through Mount Royal Tunnel in Montreal as an electrified commuter rail line. But I have learned that some trains went beyond the electrified commuter zone and thus needed diesel power. The tunnel is up hill coming out of Central Station Montreal. Diesels could not be run because they would foul the air of the tunnel. Inbound the diesel-powered trains would accelerate out of the Mount Royal Station at the top end of the tunnel and basically coast downhill. Outbound the train would be hauled up the tunnel by electrics with the diesel dead heading. The electrics would cut off just short of Eastern Junction (beyond the tunnel) and the diesel would take over. The electrics would return down the tunnel, light. The cutting off of the electrics is what this Roger Puta sequence of four photos show. I owe my understanding of this to the Train Orders Canadian Forum. Thanks very much. Now you do too. And thanks Roger. The train was probably the overnight train to northern Quebec according to the Canadian Forum. The photos are all at Eastern Junction. Roger took them in September 1979. |
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Source | An Electric to Diesel Change Above Mount Royal Tunnel |
Author | Marty Bernard from U.S.A. |
Camera location | 45° 31′ 20″ N, 73° 39′ 42″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 45.522110; -73.661740 |
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[edit]This file comes from the Roger Puta collection, which passed to Mel Finzer. They were scanned/posted by Marty Bernard and are in the public domain. Attribution to "Roger Puta" is not required for a public domain image, but should be done as a matter of courtesy to a major Commons contributor.
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON |
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Camera model | LS-5000 |
Software used | Picture Window Pro 64 v7.0.20 |
Date and time of digitizing | 22:19, 30 May 2017 |