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Agreed, but the problem is that it is much more difficult to confidently decipher what DND and NRE stand for if it‘s not really clear that we are talking about governmental departments or Engineering/Procurements. Context matters and I believe that the reactions to my inititial post show that...

You should know your audience and stick to abbreviations which are commonly used in this forum. I invite you and @kEiThZ to search the 1152 pages of comments in this thread to find any mentions of DND and NRE prior to this week… (And yes, the search function absolutely sucks for three-letter...

I kind of figured DND out, but it didn‘t make any sense to me since I had never come across NRE (not just as an acronym, but also as a concept). Maybe keep in mind in the future that this is an urbanist and not a military or public procurement forum and that not commonly-used and widely...

If even rail nerds like myself have no idea what we are talking about, there is a slight problem. What is DND and what is NRE? Don‘t worry about HFR, that one I know… ;)

Indeed, corridor-sharing for ~60 km (MTRL-COTO/DeBeaujeu) is less disruptive than for ~200 km (MTRL-Winchester-SMTF), let alone: ~500 km (MTRL-Kingston-Pickering). Granted, the Kingston alignment allows to stop at different cities, but the entire HFR model of seperating primary (T-O, T-M and...

The people who put that line on that map are those responsible for promoting the project (i.e. the HFR-TGF team), as the people who will be in charge of funding, designing, constructing and operating the project (i.e., whoever wins the ongoing RFQ/RFP-process) have yet to be found. Any proponent...

There absolutely isn‘t any economic or commercial rationale to invest in infrastructure upgrades for bypassing Ottawa, given the small potential number of direct trains and the limited ridership potential for such direct trains, as we‘ve already discussed to death here on UT and elsewhere (just...

Some HEP-I cars have been assigbed to supplement the Corridor fleet, which has enabled the steady growth in Corrudor frequencies pre-Covid. Only those which haven‘t been condemned yet - and it‘s abundantly clear that no LRC will remain in service once the delivery of the new Corridor Fleet is...

I would assume that adding a stop at stations with single platforms is much more difficult than at those with multiple platforms. For instance, an all-stop train will have to be in Fallowfield Smiths Falls, Gananoque, Napannee, Trenton Junction and Port Hope on the Southern track, which...

HEP-I coaches don‘t have a galley (except for 8145-47, which are running exclusively on the JONQ/SENN service), which is why they can‘t run as car 3 (i.e., the first ECO coach) or in pairs, which means you have to mix them with LRC or HEP-II cars…

VIA hasn’t even operated the western part of that third summer-only frequency (i.e., west of Edmonton) since 2019…

To volunteer just five reasons: 1) because there is no direct track connection between the two stations without at least one change of direction 2) because the timetables for both services don‘t allow for sensible connections between the SUDB-WHTR service and the Canadian 3) because barely...

If people leave because they don‘t enjoy the amenities and job opportunities which virtually all other Canadians can (rightly) take for granted, why should we blame them and not those policy makers which allocate the resources which are used to decide where living conditions and economic...

Sure, we don‘t have the money to deliver basic amenities like clean running water, sanitary schools, paved roads or cell phone connectivity to all communities in this country, but lets splash something like 10% of our GDP (some C$3 trillion) just to ensure that our passenger trains don‘t have to...

Ah, the famous ‚wiggle waggon‘ (a HEP-I car at the end of a mixed Corridor consist) user „tysmo“ (I’m pretty sure he’s also here on UT, but couldn’t remember his user name) keeps mentioning on the „Rail Fan Canada“ Discord server:

No, I meant cars which allow views not just to the right or left (or top) of the train, but also its front and back. Granted, RMR seems to now have added some such cars into their fleet with their new Stadler-built Gold Leaf 3.0 cars, but unlike in a Skyline or Park dome, you‘d need to walk an...

My entire point was that whereas lounge spaces with large windows are essential amenities for multi-day rides like VIA‘s only three routes which operate overnight, other land cruise operators like Rocky Mountaineer or Indian Pacific / The Ghan in Australia charge more than VIA does for the...

Just for the records, I‘m talking about sleeping pods and whereas they might be fine for someone travelling 8-12 hours overnight to get from A to B, they are far too claustrophobic for someone spending 2-4 days on a train where the trip is the destination: I would rather frame it in a way that...

The new trainsets are currently (i.e., as of April 8) used for #668 on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays: https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/new-fleet

Keep in mind that we are talking about accommodation types for train services where only 40% rather than 80% of the time spent on board falls into night time. If you can’t expect passengers to stay in their booked space for much more than sleeping, you‘ll need much more lounge spaces…