After a "private" train ride from White River, Ontario (being the only passenger on board), VIA Rail's "Budd train” boards some passengers in Chapleau for the eastbound trip to Sudbury.

Biscotasi & the Great Beyond - VIA's #186 speeds east across the Lake Biscotasi causeway after dropping paddlers and anglers at the flagstop here minutes before. Biscotasi is interconnected with a... (more)

Flagstop Bisco - VIA's remote flagstop passenger service gets waved down for a pick-up at Biscotasing taking riders east from just about anywhere between White River and Sudbury on a hot summer af... (more)

VIA Rail Canada's White River to Sudbury "budd car" has just arrived and heads back west across the plant at Elm St to then zig zag across into the yard to tie up.

VIA's Budd car 186 between White River, Ontario and Sudbury, Ontario is just a few miles into the near 300 mile run across the sparsely populated boreal forest, swampy, and rocky terrain.

VIA 186, operating between White River and Sudbury, Ontario loads cargo/baggage and passengers for remote Northern Ontario. The past few weeks VIA has assembled four RDC's together.

VIA Rail's Budd Cars get a drink before making their station stop at Chapleau, ON.

In a common scene at White River, a passenger and one of the train's engineers unload a canoe out of the RDC-4 baggage door.

VIA RDC-4 6250 brings up the rear of 85V-17 heading into Sultan.

The Sudbury-White River Budd cars speed west on the Cartier Sub approaching Levack.

Arriving at its destination passengers detrain from the Sudbury to White River budd car.

About 11 miles north of Cartier, Straight Lake and the remote siding of Stralak are home only to a seasonal hunting lodge and are a flag-stop on Via Rail's Sudbury-White River passenger service, s... (more)

After crossing over from the yard and Nickle the Budd Car heads towards the downtown Station for its 0900 departure.

After making a zig zag off the Nickle Sub, the Budd Car makes its run towards the downtown station

The VIA Rail Sudbury to White River Budd Car makes a stop at Cartier to pick up a huge crowd of people. Many American tourist's from Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana looking to head into Ontario's back... (more)