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VIA Rail has been doing something similar each day at 7 p.m.. This is a part of a larger effort by various organizations called "the 7 pm salute". Since Tuesday April 7, every day at 19:00 local time, all trains operating sound one long whistle to recognize critical health, frontline and e...

NS VIA FAN wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:13 am Seams the over zealous moderation of this forum has combined two threads here without qualifying or revising the thread title.

Yes, that's it.

As a side note, there was once another high level rail trestle in St. Thomas across the Kettle Creek valley, south of both of the above, which was built by the Pere Marquette Railway. It was later abandoned and scrapped by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in favour of trackage rights over the Canada ...

The Canada Southern Kettle Creek Bridge was built by the Michigan Central Railroad, part of the New York Central System. Ownership of the bridge passed from NYC to Penn Central and Conrail before the CASO was sold to Canadian National and Canadian Pacific jointly, The tracks were removed in 2006. Fo...

From another topic: As long as the"First Nations" Rebel blockades Keep VIA locked out by CN, the Canadian is the connecting service that all the "remote service" trains connect to,this has got to be driving VIA nuts. This is what that writer doesn't understand at National Post ....

The Kettle Creek Viaduct in St Thomas is no longer in use. CN abandoned most of the Paynes Subdivision about 10 years ago after the Ford assembly plant was closed.
You can view a few photographs of the bridge when it was in active service here: http://railpast.com/paynes/paynesub.htm

Well, now that the protest is done, hopefully rail service can return to normalcy. It's not over yet. While CN prepared to move trains through the most contentious blockade site additional barircades have been popping up elsewhere, continuing to disrupt rail traffic. Meanwhile a new "secret&qu...

or the Cascades in/out of Vancouver BC Already happened in Vancouver. In a tweet, Amtrak said it had cancelled train 516 to Vancouver. The train returned to Bellingham where passengers were loaded onto busses to complete the journey ... An evening southbound train on the same route was also cancell...

follow up:

VIA Rail cancels trains across Canada, CN shuts down Eastern Canada network amid pipeline protests

Following a notice from the infrastructure owner, CN Rail, that they are no longer in a position to fulfill their obligations under the Train Service Agreement between VIA Rail and CN Rail, VIA Rail has no other option but to cancel all of its services on the network with the exception of Sudbury-W...

It's not just CN/VIA that has been impacted by the protests. There have also been rail blockades on Canadian Pacific south of Montreal and a short lived one on CP and GO Transit in Toronto.

By the way, speaking of the "Canadian" schedule, there was a short article in "Railfan and Railroad" magazine with regard to the Canadian schedule, The short blurb said that the Canadian was going to return to a 3 times a week schedule, in both directions, from Toronto to Vancou...

Where is the schedule or timetable? I finally realized you have to click on the "15:00 PT" to get the timetable. This is ridiculous. I think the Amtrak website is much easier to navigate. The better way to find any schedule / timetable from the VIA website is to select "Plan your tri...

,,,where did the Stainless Steel cars come from as they do not appear to be part of the Museum's collection From what can be seen using Google maps here and here and from other photographs of the Museum , there is more equipment housed there than shown on the Museum's website. Whether these are als...