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LRC
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 1980· class of Canadian passenger rolling stock
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. VIA 6917 at Newtonville, ON on October 5, 1987 (22815421456): Roger Puta· Public domain
- 2. Amtrak LRC loco 38: Tim Darnell· CC BY 3.0
- 3. LRC Club Car: Reverend Edward Brain, D.D. ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The LRC (a bilingual initialism: in English: Light, Rapid, Comfortable; in French: Léger, Rapide, et Confortable) is a series of lightweight diesel-powered passenger trains that were used on short- to medium-distance inter-city service in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. LRC was designed to run with locomotives, or power cars, at both ends and provide 125 mph (201 km/h) service on non-upgraded railway routes. To accomplish this, the LRC passenger cars feature active-tilt technology to reduce the forces on the passengers when a train travels at high speeds through curves.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 46 years ago, in 1980.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 19.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 20 years (1981–2001).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1980–1984
- in service from
- 1981
- retired
- 2001
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 31
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- operators
- Via Rail, Amtrak
- top speed
- 153 km/h
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 19.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q891793, Wikipedia: LRC (train) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.