News photo: ‘Lumi’ on line

News photo: ‘Lumi’ on line

By Trains Staff | August 8, 2024

Specially painted VIA Rail Canada trainset now in service

Yellow train crosses bridge
VIA Rail Canada’s Lumi trainset arrives in Montreal on train No. 22 on Aug. 7, 2024. Michael Berry

MONTREAL — VIA Rail Canada’s “Lumi” trainset — a Siemens Venture train painted yellow in homage to the passenger operator’s TurboTrain equipment of the past — is now in operation in Ontario-Quebec corridor service. The one-of-a-kind trainset was introduced at a media event last month [see “VIA Rail Canada unveils specially painted corridor trainset,” Trains News Wire, July 10, 2024] and has been in operation for about a week, photographer Michael Berry reports. The “Lumi” name is short for luminosity, VIA says.

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