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How far back do you take that? The country, particularly southern Ontario and the prairies, is covered in rail lines that have been abandoned over the years. The taxpayer can't be expected to pour money into every ribbon between every town in the land.
We maintain all the parks. This would be no different. Pull the rails up. Clear out the ties and ballast. Then put a layer of gravel. Require the companies to do this if they wish to abandon the line.
The moment a railroad has successfully completed the abandonment process and sold off any of its ROWs, it is solely the responsibility of the respective municipalities to decide whether they want to preserve the old ROW or not. You can fault CN and CP for many things, but not for the roads, houses and shopping centers the municipalities have developped (or allowed to be developped) over their discarded ROWs…
You're talking about 'now/going forward' - but didn't answer the question.
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I'm inclined not to, but that's not to say I won't be bitching about them either.
Some would say that we are doing a fine job…after all Canada's total governmental debt is somewhere around 2.1 trillion dollars (courtesy of a Fraser Institute report) through 2022, and surely we spent vast portions of that money on projects that will serve generations to come. No?
Indeed. My grandfather had a summer job laying track on a CN railway in rural NB, my grandmother worked at the CPR hotel in St. Andrews and briefly at the CPR station in McAdam (and l have a couple very nice CPR butterknives she nicked as a souvenir). When they moved from London to Fredericton in 1953 they took an ocean liner to Halifax (?), then CPR to Fredericton Junction and were shocked to see what appeared to be London Transport subsurface stock pass through while they were waiting for the shuttle to Fredericton (TTC Gloucester cars)*. My father grew up in a house backing onto a railway in downtown Fredericton, a short walk from Fredericton CPR station. He would apparently take the train to Montreal or Halifax via Fredericton Jct, including the brief 1980's revival with direct service to Halifax.
My grandparents lived on the Isle of Wight, and the trains there even today are old London underground cars.
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Might as well. If they don't own something, the McCains will.
It is a superb station and a lot of local work ans sweat equity has gone in to preserve and restore it. I, too have ridden through there and I worked with a guy who is from McAdam (there can't be many). Minister's Island was one of VanHorne's getaways, GM of CP.
I am speaking of the lines that have been abandoned in the 1990s and since. We do not need to condemn them so long as we can learn from them. I also talk of the 1990sVia cuts as well. Simple things like an overnight train between Toronto and Montreal would be nice. But instead we will just keep adding lanes hoping traffic doesn't get too bad as we also shrink seat sizes and even have stand up seating on planes trying to cram more people in them to make more profit.
Then say that. Broad, sweeping statements are part of why you lose other participants.
I was expecting to ride the Venture from Montreal to Toronto last Tuesday. But no, we rode the Venture from Quebec City to Montreal on its way to Ottawa. From Montreal it was a clapped out LRC.
None, as this (#63/Thu-2023-09-21) has so far been the only revenue service sighting on anything else than QMO services:
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