High Speed Train Coming?-split from boosting Canada’s military spending"

[Bruce Monkhouse]

The internet???

 

[YZT580]

What would you call people posting falsehoods that are easily Googlable?

liberals

 

[mariomike]

This thread was much better closed.

At the rate this thread is going, should be up to about 600 pages by the time Phase 1 is scheduled to open . Lol

 

[Altair]

At the rate this thread is going, should be up to about 600 pages by the time Phase 1 is scheduled to open . Lol

600 pages of appeals to emotion.

Yay.

I'll leave @ytz to it, this thread stopped being interesting a long time ago.

 

[Maxman1]

What would you call people posting falsehoods that are easily Googlable?

 

[mariomike]

Those of us who remember riding VIA Rail as it used to be, may find this 1979 route map of interest.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Those of us who remember riding VIA Rail as it used to be, may find this 1979 route map of interest.


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Now that looks closer to a Nation project.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Those of us who remember riding VIA Rail as it used to be, may find this 1979 route map of interest.


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Was that VIA or was the CP/CN passenger trains?

 

[mariomike]

Was that VIA or was the CP/CN passenger trains?

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

seanmarshall.ca

 

[YZT580]

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

seanmarshall.ca

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.

 

[Czech_pivo]

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

seanmarshall.ca

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.

 

[mariomike]

I remember the Turbo.

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.