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Alberta Prairie Steam Tours Ltd. Private Company Shortline Freight: The oldest of all the privately owned shortlines in Alberta. Former Canadian Pacific Lacombe Subdivision and former Canadian National Stettler Subdivisions. Primary markets are grains, fertilizer, rail car storage and passenger train day trips. Battle River Railway [4] BRR
Porter Airlines provides a shuttle bus service for its passengers between the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto and the ferry dock/passenger tunnel to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (island airport). The service is operated by Pacific Western at 10-minute intervals using Thomas SLF buses. This service has stopped as of March 2020.
Toronto Express: Canadian Pacific: Toronto, ON – Vancouver, BC [1913] 1909-1913 Toronto Express: Canadian National: Toronto, ON – London, ON [1940] 1938-1941 Toronto Limited: New York Central, Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, Canadian Pacific: New York, NY–Toronto, ON (with through cars to other destinations) [1930] 1925-1931 ...
In 2011, a group named the Shining Waters Railway was established with the goals of inheriting the Kawartha Lakes Railway's two subdivisions, the Havelock and Nephton from CP Rail to continue freight service and even resume passenger rail service from Toronto to Peterborough and beyond (in a partnership with GO Train, VIA Rail, or another partner).
Following the CPR's withdrawal of passenger services to downtown Edmonton in 1972, the station building was demolished in 1978 despite an effort to save it. [2] Edmonton is still served by passenger trains, with Via Rail's Canadian stopping at its station since 1998, when the CN Tower station was closed and the CN yard in downtown Edmonton was removed.
The Super Continental leaving Toronto for Vancouver 1970. By the 1960s, Canadian passenger trains were in serious decline, largely thanks to government subsidies for automobiles travelling the then-new Trans-Canada Highway and for airlines. The Continental Limited, the Super Continental's predecessor, was cut back to a Montreal to Saskatoon ...
Canadian Pacific Limited was created in 1971 to own properties formerly owned by Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), a transportation and mining giant in Canada. In October 2001, CPR completed the corporate spin-offs of each of the remaining businesses it had not sold, including Canadian Pacific Railway Limited .
CANADA WEST: Vancouver: 1986 – 1990 Canada West Airlines: CWA CANADIAN WESTERN AIRLINES Edmonton: 2002 – 2004 Formed by ex-Canada 3000 staff, along with tour operator Canada West Holidays Merged with Aero Falcon in 2004 Canadian Airlines: CP CDN CANADIAN Calgary: 1987 – 2001 To Air Canada: Canadian Airways: Winnipeg Richardson: 1926 – 1941