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Could this be a chance for VIA to expand outside the Corridor? No.....what was left of Greyhound Canada was in Ontario and just reaching to Montreal from Ottawa. Their routes were already closely paralleled by VIA. The major route between Toronto and Montreal wasn't even Greyhound. It's MegaBus. Gr...

In 1974...Amtrak extended the 'Empire State Express' from Buffalo to Detroit across Southern Ontario on Penn Central. It was renamed the Niagara Rainbow and lasted until 1979. Now most of the old Penn Central...later ConRail track is gone. Below is the Niagara Rainbow at St. Thomas ON in 1977......a...

Right up until Amtrak Day 50 years ago Penn Central was running Chicago-Detroit-Buffalo-New York trains across Southern Ontario between Windsor and Fort Erie on 250 miles of the former Michigan Central/New York Central. https://i.imgur.com/HkPi4lK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/B5XlsNt.jpg https://i.imgur....

Directional Running is for operational purposes of CN and CP and they've agreed to share trackage in certain area to keep train movements fluid. The Canadian just follows the traffic flows. In the east.....all westbound trains (CN,CP & VIA) run on CP and all eastbound trains run on CN roughly be...

It sounds like those different routes that the eastbound and westbound take always happen when the train is running. I can certainly understand the reason for the different route running being that VIA doesn't want to wye the Canadian set....... The Directional Running has nothing to do with turnin...

From the archives......the Northlander at North Bay in 1983

Yes......I've seen several Facebook posts of assembled locomotives. Sorry no links but appear ready for testing.

So, really, Detroit-Toronto and Detroit-NYP train travel has been almost possible very recently, and really the only obstacles to having it be an attractive mode of travel for more people are the two border crossings and the possibility of missing the connection in Aldershot? If we could get CSX an...

I'm curious about the Amtrak-VIA connections in Michigan. Are there any to speak of, or are the two lines that almost meet just coincidentally close to each other with no real viable connection for travelers? I know once upon a time there was a through train called the International, and Amtrak has...

The distance from Buffalo-Detroit is shorter across southern Ontario. The NYC [actually Michigan Central's Canada Southern] routed a number of trains across the route. Amtrak continued running the remnant of the Empire State Express to Detroit, with one car for a few stops; people who had boarded i...

The first post mentioned there's no longer a wye in Halifax anymore. Where was it? I'm looking at Google maps and I don't even see where one was. The closest wye was at Windsor Jct. (junction with the Dominion Atlantic Railway) about 15 miles out that is no longer in service. But for the past 20 ye...

Why not call VIA and pose the question to them as it may give you an idea of how Pullman might have handled it. It's the same type of accommodation and those same questions could be asked today as VIA still sells 'Sections' on the Canadian, Ocean and Churchill trains (at least will again when Covid ...

I would think the chances of 2 different government s agreeing on the protocols required to allow this would be very slim. Seems those protocols are already in place..... “since March Canada has admitted approximately 5.3 million , most of them essential workers, who have been exempted from the man...

The Border has never been closed to essential travel since the pandemic started. Many freight trains and trucks still cross every day as well as essential workers. Look at the number of Canadian Nurses/Health Care workers that live in Windsor and cross everyday to work in Detroit area Hospitals. Per...

Don't expect the Adirondack, Maple Leaf or Cascades crossing the Border anytime soon. The Prime Minister says the Border may stay closed well into 2021. "Canada will not agree to lifting a ban on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak is significantly under c...