Canadian Railroads > Bye bye pantograph! Hello diesel mode!

Mont-Royal Station in the Town of Mount-Royal is the only place in Canada where you can witness a pantograph being lowered. This afternoon I shot AMT 1354 arriving at Mont-Royal Station in electric mode with its pantograph up (first shot), but while making its station stop it dropped its pantograph and is now departing the station in diesel mode (second shot, 8 seconds after the first shot). The train is AMT 1207, which is on its way to Mascouche, on AMT's newest commuter line.

The third shot shows the train leaving the station.

Michael Berry



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/15 07:11 by Mberry.

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Most of the trains that pass through here are Bombardier-built MU units. Here AMT 943 for Deux-Montanges leaves the same station.

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Nice pics !

Does 1354 have enough chimes?

Steamdoc

Ed K must have consulted on that !!

When the panto-graph is lowered, does the internal diesel start; or can the locomotive be operated with both modes active, if only for an extremely short time?

Thumper Wrote:
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> When the panto-graph is lowered, does the internal
> diesel start; or can the locomotive be operated
> with both modes active, if only for an extremely
> short time?

That is a good question, unfortunately I don't know the answer.

I wish VIA rail could swap an F40 to AMT for an ALP45DM. Then the remote Quebec train could be routed like a Mascouche train and save 35 minutes in the schedule.

That's a nice set of pictures, thanks for sharing them.

NJ Transit owns several identical (nearly identical?) units.  When they switch over from electric to diesel at Newark Penn (NY to Newark and then out the Raritan Valley), the diesel is started in the Newark station, during the passenger stop, and then the pan descends. I've seen it done in that sequence several times, no idea if that's the rule.  Takes about three minutes. I'm guessing the reverse happens for inbound trains.

joemvcnj Wrote:
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> I wish VIA rail could swap an F40 to AMT for an
> ALP45DM. Then the remote Quebec train could be
> routed like a Mascouche train and save 35 minutes
> in the schedule.

or, even rent two frm NJ Transit.  Which has more than it needs...