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High Speed Train Coming?-split from boosting Canada’s military spending"
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At the rate this thread is going, should be up to about 600 pages by the time Phase 1 is scheduled to open . Lol
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600 pages of appeals to emotion.
Yay.
I'll leave @ytz to it, this thread stopped being interesting a long time ago.
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Now that looks closer to a Nation project.
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Was that VIA or was the CP/CN passenger trains?
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It is, apparently , a VIA Rail map from 1979.
What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955
What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955
An interactive map depicting intercity rail services in Ontario and Quebec in 1955
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and now even the buses are gone for the most part so the only option is PMV. Some of that network could and should be re-built. I remember the Turbo. When it worked speeds of 100mph were easily attainable but there were too many unguarded crossings on the CN mainline. 3&1/2 hours if I remember correctly which is still better than air travel from downtown to downtown. It was the freight trains that caused most of the delays as they got priority as they were far more profitable. A dedicated line and proper crossing gates would have provided a reliable service. They were extremely comfortable too: best ride in NA. I even remember catching the sleeper from Toronto to Montreal. Leave late at night and arrive downtown in time for start of business. It was designed to be slow.It is, apparently , a VIA Rail map from 1979.
What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955
What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955
An interactive map depicting intercity rail services in Ontario and Quebec in 1955
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A grandfather worked for CP and I remember being a young kid riding on some cp passenger train from Windsor up to London in the late 70’s or 1980.It is, apparently , a VIA Rail map from 1979.
What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955
What Canadian passenger rail looked like in 1955
An interactive map depicting intercity rail services in Ontario and Quebec in 1955
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My father was a CNR / VIA Rail locomotive engineer. He took me on the Turbo, and everything else they operated.
Even made sure I got to ride in a steam locomotive just before they retired the last one. That was my most terrifying childhood memory. < smile emoji
Glad he he saw it at it's best when got out of the navy in 1946. His father got him on.
But, by the time he retired in 1991, Canada's greatest passenger rail years were long gone.
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Mine was the Yardmaster down in Windsor. My younger brother and I would walk over to visit him at work when we were like 11 and 9, we lived about 4-5 blocks from the yard. He would take us into the engines used to ‘shunt’ the freight cars back and forth in the yard to build up the trains going to Detroit or leaving from Windsor to the rest of Canada. My brother and I used to also walk up and down the tracks with buckets picking up the coal that would sometimes fall from the coal cars and sell it to neighbours for a 1$ a bucket to use in their fireplaces in the winter.
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