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Via Rail Canada Inc. (reporting mark VIA) (/ ˈ v iː ə /), operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service in Canada. As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight Canadian provinces and 12,500 kilometres (7,800 mi) of track, 97 ...
VIA HFR was renamed as Alto, and the federal government chose the construction of the rail network, also named Alto, to be under the responsibility of consortium Cadence and Air Canada. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Upon this announcement, Trudeau described the project as the "largest infrastructure project in Canadian history" and added that it would be "a game ...
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1957. 556 pp, the standard history; Eagle, J. A. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's University Press 1989; Fleming, R. B. The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923 University of British Columbia Press, 1991
In 1976, CN created an entity called Via-CN as a separate operating unit for its passenger services. Via evolved into a coordinated marketing effort with CP Rail for rail passenger services, and later into a separate Crown corporation responsible for inter-city passenger services in Canada. Via Rail took over CN's passenger services on April 1 ...
1854 – The first railway in Brazil, inaugurated by Pedro II of Brazil on 30 April in Rio de Janeiro, built by the Viscount of Maua. [21] 1854 – The first railway in Norway. Between Oslo and Eidsvoll. 1854 – The first railway in today's Romania and Serbia (then Austrian Empire), on 20 August 1854, between Lisava-Oravica-Bazijaš.
A rail bridge crossing the Wanapitei River near the community of Wanup collapsed, causing a train derailment and spilling a number of cars carrying containers into the river. [62] 2013 Ottawa bus–train crash: 18 September 2013: Ottawa, Ontario: 6: 35: Via Rail train 51 struck an OC Transpo double-decker bus en route from Ottawa to Toronto at ...
The line is critical to the CNR network in Eastern Canada as CNR has no other east–west rail lines through Eastern Ontario. February 6 – Via Rail cancels trains on their Toronto–Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa routes. [17] [18] [19] Until February 13, Via Rail announces passenger train cancellations on a day-to-day basis.
Only the inoperable Via Rail unit, FP9ARM 6300, was repaired after the collision. It returned to service following a rebuild with an entire new cab from a Kansas City Southern F7 locomotive 4062. It was the last FP9 in service on Via Rail before it was retired in September 2011, and it was subsequently acquired by the British Columbia Chapter ...