Given the current state of the bus industry, I believe that it would be better value-for-money to assign the responsibility for evacuating stranded trains in (with the available means) inaccessible areas to a civic emergency-response unit, as that way a much more efficient use of the...

Since the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, no intercity passenger rail project has ever received as much government attention and money as HFR. Progress is slow, with design and construction expected to take another 12 years (if I recall the Toronto Star article correctly), but that...

The federal parliament’s Transport Committee has released the transcripts about the ten-hour delay of train 622 on August 31: https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/TRAN/meeting-126/evidence @nfitz will be surprised to learn that they contacted 10 bus companies and none had buses...

This is actually a really good article providing a good overview over what is known about the project at the moment!

Friendly reminder that we have an entire thread dedicated to railfan fantasies like reviving dedicated Calgary-Saskatoon and Saskatoon-Winnipeg trains, the market for which has died on both sides of the border soon after WWII…...

Whereas I do concede that the Empire Builder model might be relevant for the Ocean, which has population centers (although mostly small ones) spread along its route, I simply don’t see these population centers along the Canadian, at least not East of Winnipeg…

According to the Invitation to Tender, the current rebuild program is only supposed to extend the service life until 2035: https://www.merx.com/viarail/solicitations/GPA-30H-Locomotive-overhaul/0000261622

I counted 104 Renaissance cars in the „Canadian Trackside Guide 2021“ and 154 HEP I cars, but these 258 cars include the proportion of Renaissance cars which were actually allocated to the Corridor and are now retired: Renaissance 9 BAG 14 CLUB 31 COACH 17 SERVICE 3 DINING 27 SLEEPER 3 BAG...

Fleet counts of the new non-Corridor fleet allegedly include 42 locomotives and 316 cars in 9 different configurations: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/99545

That could also be a valid description of the REM, but I digress…

As a QC taxpayer, I have no problem with all you lovely ON taxpayers paying for your vanity passenger rail projects… :p

Interesting (and to me as one of their former fleet planners unexpected), but what would be the plan then for past 2035, when all legacy fleet will be forcibly retired as per TC?

Friendly reminder that the question of what „Central Canada“ includes (QC and ON) and what not (any provinces or territories to the East, West or North of QC and ON) has been exhaustively discussed and determined: I would welcome if we could stop encouraging certain trolls here by refraining...

I would assume that 65-75=>70-64 would be the last to be converted, but I can’t imagine that any other equipment will remain in revenue service on the Corridor once the 32nd trainset has been delivered. I‘d rather imagine them doubling the consist…

Ventures coming to SWO (87 on _2_____, 73-78-84 on __3____ and 71-76 on ___4567), as per Groups.io:

As Bill Clinton famously said, “it’s the Economy, stupid!”, and that’s where size is might. CN and CPKC command substantial sway in this country’s industry community, much more than private railroads in any other country on this planet…

Friendly reminder that the market capitalization of CN and CPKC exceeds $100 billion each. No government will pick unnecessary fights with such heavyweights which represent more than 10% of national GDP, especially over such a niche policy concern like intercity passenger rail…

Based on nothing else than your gut feeling, I assume - or do you have anything remotely recent which would suggest that PP and his Conservatives oppose HFR? If they were really going to nix HFR with the (by then hopefully) signed contracts, they would be pressed to answer why they never...

This has been VIA’s position for the last 5 years or so: VIA will return when it is able to offer a similar schedule to when it last served Gaspé in 2013(?)…

“Financing” is part of the ongoing RFP procurement. This is not the kind of “taxpayer-pays-the-lowest-bid” procurements like, for instance, VIA’s new Corridor Fleet…