Passenger cars - Renaissance Business car

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Renaissance Club car - VIA Rail Canada

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Model:
Renaissance Business car

Built by:
Metropolitan-Cammell

Built in:
1995-96

Acquired by VIA Rail in:
December 2000 (put into service: summer 2002)

Number of units in fleet:
14

Unit number(s):
7100 to 7113

Configuration:
48 seats

Did you know?

  • These cars were built to reach speeds of 200 km/h during regular service.
  • Before being acquired by VIA Rail, these new concept cars were first subjected to 400,000 km of test runs in Europe and Morocco.
     

 

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