2021-07-17 Forestial Otherworld -- VIA Rail 185/186 Sudbury to White River Junction

 

VIA Rail Budd Car 6219 makes a flag stop at  a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route


2021-07-17 Forestial Otherworld -- VIA Rail 185/186 Sudbury to White River Junction

2021 Trip Report

by Christopher Graper

Sudbury to White River Junction, Ontario, Canada




Providing an essential service to communities and bush lodges along one of the most remote sections of the CPR's transcontinental railway, VIA Rail's Sudbury to White River Junction service offers an spectacular and unparalleled view of Northern Ontario. Enroute there is almost no cellular phone service, just the sound of the self-powered, 1960s era Budd Railcars, the last of its kind in regular service, propelling its way through an untouched forestial otherworld.



TRIPPING Train 185 (Full Documentary)

https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/tripping-train-185-full-documentary


VIA Rail Info and Booking

https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/trains/regional-trains/sudbury-white-river



A sold-out baggage car on VIA Rail 185 at Sudbury is loaded with 21 canoe, destined for outposts and camps along the way


A sold-out baggage car on VIA Rail 185 at Sudbury is loaded with 21 canoe, destined for outposts and camps along the way



A busy boarding of 185 at Sudbury, including families carrying essential goods destined for remote homes, outposts and camps along the way


Overflow canoe on a busy Train 185 are accommodated in the coach seating


VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route


VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route



VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route



VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction

VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route

VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route


VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route


Train 185 opens its doors upon a forestial otherworld


VIA Rail Train 185 makes a flag stop at a remote camp along the Sudbury to White River Junction Route



Sunrise departure from the remote Northern Ontario community of White River Junction, the western terminus of Train 185/186


Sunrise departure from the remote Northern Ontario community of White River Junction, the western terminus of Train 185/186


VIA Rail’s White River Junction Station, although tattered and blighty, still features the original 1950’s era  White River signage from when the CPR began the Canadian service, nobly continues on


From the CPR caboose, the Budd Cars, to the 1950’s era White River signage from the original CPR Canadian, White River Junction is a living railway museum



Sunrise upon the stunning forestial otherworld of Northern Ontario, viewed from the spacious window of Train 186



Sunrise upon the stunning forestial otherworld of Northern Ontario, viewed from the spacious window of Train 186


Train 186 clears a remote interlocking deep in the forests of North Ontario




2021-07-17 Forestial Otherworld -- VIA Rail 185/186 Sudbury to White River Junction

2021 Trip Report

by Christopher Graper

Sudbury to White River Junction, Ontario, Canada



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