by Ken V
According to a report from CKPR Radio in Thunder Bay ON, VIA will be dismantling the remaining ex-Eurostar car shells to be used for parts and scrapping what's left. The 139 cars, acquired by VIA Rail in 2001, were intended to be used between England and France through the Chunnel but never saw service there and were sitting idle, and mostly incomplete, for years before VIA bought them. VIA did complete 106 of the cars and placed them in service on the Montreal-Halifax "Ocean" and in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor. There were never any specific plans on what to do with the remaining 33 which have been sitting at Bombardier's Thunder Bay facility since being delivered.
CKPR wrote:A fleet of passenger rail cars from England which have been sitting at Thunder Bay's Keefer Terminal for seven years are finally being put to good use.
Via Rail is having the cars dismantled and will use them for parts on their existing passenger fleet.
The cars are left over from a refurbishing contract the local Bombardier plant had in 2001. Work crews with Arnone Transport have been taking the wheels and bogies off the 33 British Rail cars this week at Keefer Terminal, and preparing
them for shipment down east.
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