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AMT's trains have their crew supplied by the host railroad....either CN or CP. There are no specific "AMT engineers" or "AMT conductors". On the Deux-Montagnes line, even after the service was taken over by the STCUM in 1982 (they had the trains before the AMT was created), the rolling stock on that line was in CN colors...and for a period on the 80's, at many stations on that line, you'd pay an STCUM fare to a VIA Rail employee at a gate, in order to ride on a CN train. In 1995 the old CN stuff (possibly the oldest rolling stock in North America outside a museum) was all retired, and new EMUs were put into service. <br /> <br />You wondered what Central Station was like back when there were steam trains? Well....none of the steam trains went there. It was a "steam exclusion zone".....at several points (including Turcot, Bridge Street, Val-Royale, and Gohier), the steam engine would be detached and an electric would take over. When diesalization happened, catenary over most of the tracks at Central station was removed. They still attached electrics for intercity trains that used the tunnel....but after 1990, that was no longer done. If you want a comparisson, Central Station was once Montreal's equivalent of Grand Central or New York Penn Station. <br /> <br />~Ra'akone
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