Urban Sky
Senior Member
Assuming that the owner of HFR would purchase the Trois-Rivières and Havelock Subdivisions, my quick-and-dirty tally of third-party-owned ROWs sums up to less than 20% of the 850 km long QBEC-MTRL-OTTW-TRTO route:
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nfitz
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I was only thinking of Toronto-Montreal.
But yes, if VIA purchases Havelock this changes. Though that that figure shows the CP Belleville sub between Smith Falls and Glen Tay as yellow - and I don't see CP (or CPKC) selling that.
robmausser
Senior Member
The section between Smiths Falls directly to Montreal has only been recently shown on maps. I believe its going to be decided its not a good idea. The section from Smiths Falls to Ottawa is already owned by VIA.
robmausser
Senior Member
And I would say about 10% of that 20% will be Metrolinx owned track. Who will be electrified soon. Hopefully VIA chooses the same standard for electrification, although its possible to convert from one format to another, they do it all the time in Europe.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
There is absolutely zero question that 25kV@60Hz will be chosen for any main line electrification project in North America, which underlines what senseless vandalism the conversion of the Deux-Montagnes line is…
robmausser
Senior Member
IMO the whole REM project should have been built to mainline standards using mainline EMU's like the Stadler Flirt, 25kV@60hz overhead and mainline standard PTC. Which would have allowed for VIA to use the tunnel.
Perhaps the Champlain bridge couldn't support the weight of a mainline heavyrail EMU?
Frank_Lee
New Member
Could it have been strategic? I.E. let's protect our little fiefdom and we don't have to deal with any other agencies and coordinate scheduling if we don't enable interoperability?
nfitz
Superstar
But the piece in the other direction to Glen Tay isn't. If VIA comes up the Don to Montreal will to enter onto the CP mainline ROW 3 different times.
ssiguy2
Senior Member
Who can blame them?
VIA has had half a century to do something with this tunnel and make the service to Ott/Tor and actual appealing one. Why should Montrealers have to accept less frequent service and with more expensive operational costs just to appease VIA? Remember this is just another proposal to add to other all the others collecting dust in Ottawa. There is absolutely no guarantee this thing {HSR/HFR} will ever be built. Just because a government says they are planning on building something doesn't mean they will.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
My criticism is less with the CDPQi (which more than delivered on their mission to extract juicy profits from their investments) than with the responsible authorities, which failed appallingly in their duty to protect for already foreseeable needs and by their refusal to remind the CDPQi who the cook and who the server is when it comes to transit/transport planning…
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I am only half happy to see these ads - it’s good to know they are moving on this, but it speaks to just how few qualified people there are in the field and thus how one must go well afield to find good candidates.
Actually, one would have thought this work would be further along by now…. posting now may mean several months until the team has fully assembled and mobilised, especially if people are coming from outside the country, need work permits, etc.
Or, possibly that’s a deliberate delay so that lessons learned from servicing the first trainsets in Montreal are applied in the TMC.
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Allandale25
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Apologies if this has been posted already. From the Canadian Passenger Rail Groups.io group:
cplchanb
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so is this actual action or is this going to be another "study" to stopgap until the next govt?
Allandale25
Senior Member
Post by Transport Action cc @TerryJohnson
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Long distance train fleet replacement RFI issued
VIA Rail Canada has posted a Request for Information for Long Distance Regional and Remote Fleet Replacement, a significant step toward securing a suitable replacement for VIA's legacy stainless-steel train fleet, originally built for Canadian Pacific in 1955, which has been the backbone of...
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