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Failure and Replacement
Not the best photo ever but an interesting story... A stranded Via 6429 sits in Ottawa. The cold weather and high electric heating demands of the 6 car Renaissance consist was too much for the F40ph's hep generator to handle causing it to fail before it could make its trip from Ottawa to Quebec city as Via 28 on January 20th. As a result the passengers were "bustituted" to Montreal to meet the replacement train that was hastily put together in Montreal. Via 6404 with 3 hep-2 coaches continued the journey to Quebec city. After swapping locomotives with Via 26 in Quebec city (as is standard procedure) Via 6439 led Via 33 from Quebec city to Ottawa. where they sit side by side in the photo. The failed service and its replacement. (note Via employees about to enter the rear door on the locomotive to try and fix the hep gen.) (also the failed 6429 and its train deadheaded back to the MMC for proper servicing later that day)
Failure and Replacement
Not the best photo ever but an interesting story... A stranded Via 6429 sits in Ottawa. The cold weather and high electric heating demands of the 6 car Renaissance consist was too much for the F40ph's hep generator to handle causing it to fail before it could make its trip from Ottawa to Quebec city as Via 28 on January 20th. As a result the passengers were "bustituted" to Montreal to meet the replacement train that was hastily put together in Montreal. Via 6404 with 3 hep-2 coaches continued the journey to Quebec city. After swapping locomotives with Via 26 in Quebec city (as is standard procedure) Via 6439 led Via 33 from Quebec city to Ottawa. where they sit side by side in the photo. The failed service and its replacement. (note Via employees about to enter the rear door on the locomotive to try and fix the hep gen.) (also the failed 6429 and its train deadheaded back to the MMC for proper servicing later that day)