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That train is supposed to make a comeback once the damaged tracks are repaired. Federal funding was recent approved for this.
Sure you're not thinking of Gaspe? The Charlevoix railway is an operating freight shortline and the tourist passenger service uses DMUs.
Right. My mistake.
Yup. Well it's definetly the logo from the Charlevoix train, although the actual coaches in my photo look different than the photos I can find online (the ones I saw have their logo quite large and in white instead of the smaller yellow logo). I wonder when they may go into service.
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Yeah. I suspect 15 years from now there will have been a huge recapitalization and expansion with large government involvement. Think P3 projects to add capacity where the railroads only pay for the capacity they use on the new sections, until a specified date in the future when the assets can be bought by CN/CP/other and maintained without subsidy. Adding capacity with piecemeal bottlenecks has likely approached its limit.
My understanding - including from what I have seen in person - Saint John and Montreal are destination ports - smaller container ships going to and leaving from these ports on a dedicated basis, discharging and loading their cargos in their entireties. Much smaller ships. Halifax on the other hand is a totally different situation - it is just an hour or so off the great circle route between Europe and the United States eastern seaboard ports. Ships going to and from the USA ports can call into Halifax, partially discharge or add to on top of their existing loads, and resume their journeys with minimal incremental cost or transit time. Suitable for much larger ships than those calling in to Montreal of Saint John. In other words, to be be effective from a shipping perspective, a ship going to either Montreal or Saint John has to be booked and loaded exclusively with containers destined for those ports, while ships going to USA Atlantic sea coast ports could have Halifax bound containers included on a last loaded / first unloaded basis, with the ships resuming their trips to their ultimate destination ports. Two different situations altogether.
This prompts a question from me then. At what point would we need to invest significantly in our railroads, and based on existing trackage nationally, do we actually *need* new infra anywhere? Freight or passenger? Or can we hyper-optimize our current network for the foreseeable future via signalling etc? From what I can see, as long as the railroads can uphold their contributions to the economy, the government has no incentive to tamper with the system, expanding it or otherwise.
Because of our size rail travel will never be practical between Toronto and Montreal. However maybe places between Toronto and North Bay, North Bay to Sudbury, Sudbury to Ottawa.
