At the formation of Via Rail Canada, the LT&L still ran a large collection of passenger services, from trolley suburban lines to diesel-hauled interurban routes to small city connectors run with aging doodlebugs. Traffic was on the decline, and the management was still making an attempt to make money on the service.

VIA kept most of the interurban routes running, at least at first, and the commuter services were transferred to local transit agencies (Montréal and Québec are still running, but Ottawa was abandoned in favor of busses,

The suburban line running from Montréal to Farnham is electrified to the PV&T voltage of 3000VDC and operated (first by the LT&L with subsidies, then by the STCUM, et seq) as an extension to the ex-CN Deux-Montagnes line (with the CN’s ancient boxcabs, steeplecabs, and class J motors) until EXO (the latest incarnation of Montréal’s transit agency) decided to rebuild Deux-Montagnes as an automated metro running under 1500VDC. So now the eco-636fe’s & ALP-45DP’s that used to power trains through the Mont Royal tunnel to Gare centrale de Montréal) now run as diesel north of Gare Centrale and electric south.

These are the timetables that were in effect from 1966 to 1975: