I agree. East of White River it's nothing spectacular (northern Ontario nice, but that's it). Neither do I. I think they do the yard work for Algoma Steel but, beyond a few forestry carloads, I don't there's much else. Whoever owns the Ring of Fire (I loose track) announced SSM as the site...

And they also probably don't see the costs or other implications. Maybe they should write a letter to their bosses. I'm sure you wrote good idea letters to the CRCN all the time. I'm not saying the route has no tourist potential; I'm saying it doesn't have enough to essentially throw 20% of...

What is it that the crew "sees"? Other than fall colours and northern scenery in general, what is the tourist 'hook'? Agawa has the canyon, with rudimentary but tourist-friendly wandering/exploring facilities and the visual attraction of the more rugged terrain east of Lake Superior including...

Your statement has an internal inconsistency. Real world year-round range aside, ONTC would need to fund a dedicated charging bay at wherever it it terminates in Toronto.

And a freight rail corridor just doesn't have the same developer caché as a highway that the residents of the shiny new homes can use. I'm not convinced either level of government is willing to spent either the political or financial capital to greenfield a new ROW for a for-profit railroad...

The fact that 'coal face' employees aren't in tune with larger corporate and political issues isn't really surprising. The Sudbury-White River train falls under VIA's remote services mandate to cover an area that had previous passenger services withdrawn. If the communities enroute had decent...

Setting aside that I think they were being sarcastic, I'm often curious about people who live in an urban area then complain about noise (planes, trains and automobiles), power lines. Similar to people who move to the country then complain about smells and slow moving machinery on the road...

On reflection, I agree. I'm not sure there would be enough property length at Washago for a suitable exchange track. Besides, why would they spend money on something they want to divest. That train is indeed facing south . . . towards Huntsville. North Bay is north of South River. Indeed...

From this GoC page: "Expenses, including meals and accommodation and required onward travel to Canada from a safe third location will be at your own expense." I have heard Cyprus as a likely safe third country. I'm curious why there are an estimated 45,000 Canadian citizens and permanent...

Why does any for profit company make its decisions? I think if they wanted to divest it and make it attractive to a buyer, the cost of re-laying some of the Washago trackage would be fairly minimal. I obviously don't know the numbers but the trains that come and go to and from North Bay - I...

Roads are publicly owned. (Most) railways are not. Unless people are advocating to nationalize our railways, no for-profit company is going to operate at a loss.

Interesting. Thanks. I clearly remember wayside signs at Gravenhurst back in the 1970s showing 'CTC Ends/Begins' for approaching or leaving Washago, so I just assumed there was no CTC north of there (except perhaps approaching Capreol).

I suspect it is a little out-of-date since there is no ONR-CN crossing and the distance to the CN end-of-track corresponds closer to where the diamond used to be rather than the current EOT. Interesting about the joint trackage. That would extend past the current ONT passenger (bus only right...

I'm not so sure that's true but, admittedly, have no data to back up my position. If you mean from southern Ontario to western Canada, this report for the US DOT just uses the word "some". There might be issues such as customs, immigration, border times, tolls (bridge, Chicagoland, etc.). The...

I guess I did miss that. I'm old school and tend not to notice emojis. The military is the wrong solution regardless of proximity. Back in the '80s when I was an OPP supervisor, probably in a moment of sheer boredom (likely on the midnight shift), I read through the emergency evacuation and...

The railroaders can probably do a better job but, very basically, under OCS a train cannot enter into or move within a section of track without a specific set of permissions from a rail controller (the US uses a similar system called Track Warrant Control). It the newer version of written train...

It would seem, and I recall they tried to do that but there were other issues. I'm not familiar enough with rail operations to know if it is as simply as dispatching Bob down the road with a locomotive.

Fair enough, but some are making the 'call the military' (or at least call the feds) case. "Local' is the key word. Aviation and maritime matters in federal waters is a JRCC/SAR responsibility. The words 'search' and 'rescue' imply the need for at least one to be required. And they exist...

Interesting. Considering some of the model years date back to the 1940s I'm not sure how informative that is. Ornge isn't a rescue service; it is an ambulance service that flies. If a passenger needs medical transport, they still need to get them to a road or suitable clearing. Medical...

OK. You were apparently in the military; how many buses do you think they have? I couldn't find any public numbers but a wild guess would be a couple per base. Larger bases such as Borden might have a couple more. Tie that into the number of members qualified to operate them, divide that by...