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he had better be careful. After all, he is a junk food addict from way back (McDonalds I think ) and if the beef is cheap you can bet that they will be buying it.

Sure hope they revert to the older dimensions for the seating. The current ones in the corridor train sets are too narrow if your waist and butt are greater than 38 inches and even then you feel the edges pushing against you. And they no longer recline which was a great feature for any trip...

120 mph did it in those times 40 plus years ago but as Lenatich says it has to be a dedicated line. With the constraints imposed by CN and CPKC it would have to be a new route; possibly following the proposed Toronto Peterborough idea. Don't misunderstand what I am trying to say. I am not...

It is the frequency of service that will generate its use. If you put a VIA on the same route at 120 miles per hour with a departure from either end every 30 minutes or even every hour and 3.5 hours on route including stops you would achieve the same results as the HSR at half the price and...

In truth it is not the CAF that is funding the cadet programme: it is the Canadian government which at some point in time tasked the CAF to provide a cadet programme in each of the three disciplines and provided the funding to the CAF to make it happen. Here are the goals: The Canadian Cadet...

yeah they do. The cadet programme introduces young people to the military, to the application of discipline (possibly for the first time) and hopefully to a potential career. They are also taught teamwork and the value of community. Interaction between leaders and cadets is patterned after...

And I believe that there isn't much of Norway's coastline that isn't accessible by rail. The climate and population distribution in Northern Europe is significantly different than our Arctic.

Too true but they are involved. Not every young person can look like a young Sgt. York but all of them deserve the credit for trying to do something with themselves rather than sitting on their butts and typing furiously into their I-pads. Connect them with committed leadership that care (and...

that would be one hell of a big hole to reinforce if it was to be any good as an icebreaker. The 212 is 74 meters long. The new Polar class 2 will be about twice that length so your pool would have to stretch from just forward of the engine room almost to the point where the hull starts to...

I can see wanting a refueling station somewhere around or north of Goose or possibly in conjunction with a permanent detachment in Greenland. Its a long commute from Iqaluit to Halifax if your gauges are showing empty or if the ice flows are in your way.

you really think so? Seems like they would be good locations for recharge units or satellite parking for people in high-rises where they can park overnight and charge their batteries. Most of them are on corners so traffic can come at them from at least two directions even if it is a divided...

and then uber all over in the ICE driven Toyotas.

Would you expect otherwise from Donald. The U.S. actions in Venezuela demonstrate that they have a closer affinity to China (with Tibet) and Russia (Georgia, Ukraine etc.) than they do to any other western nation. But even if they didn't, Carney pulled the rug out from under the Alberta/U.S...

I believe the reason for the slower speeds is more because CN won't authorize it. Dedicated trackage is definitely required to achieve consistency but just as important is frequency. I would say that the route is well-used and it is actually used a lot by families travelling 60 miles or less...

the biggest problem we have is we always think complicated. Set a telescope at 3 degrees and use a FPV to keep your a/c on the ball(hell you can rent a surveyors scope and dial the angle in with no questions asked. KISS is the key to success. We don't have the financial resources to protect...

Don't be so confident about this. Pearson had a problem with a chap operating one of those jetpack parachutes a few years back. He would launch and climb out into the centreline of the approach; scare the hell out of two or three (no more) a/c on approach and then disappear again. Don't...

thanks for that.

There aren't many left that are just all round good as she was.

The best solution I suspect will depend upon the when of development. Kitimat is already there and can start quickly so that balances out some of the expenses of transportation, plus it boasts access to the entire Asia market. Dauphin could certainly us the industry and would be good once...

we already have a plant in Kitimat that could desperately use the business and they had their own hydro-electrics; probably be cheaper to re-vitalize it since the local tribespeople are already investing in it