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Well the rumour mill is rolling.....and it's something that even VIA's President has previously alluded to.....that the Canadian will be moving to CP in 2016 between Sudbury and Winnipeg via Thunder Bay and the scenic north shore of Lake Superior.
Something had to happen with the horrendous timekeeping the Canadian now experiences on the freight clogged CN main across northern Ontario. CP is not as busy as CN east of Winnipeg....but west of there....just as busy so don't expect a complete return to CP through Calgary and Banff.
And if it does happen....it would be an easy reroute. The Canadian already enters CP track at Perry Sound in directional running territory but instead of returning to CN just south of Sudbury.....it would continue on to Winnipeg where another fairly easy route is available to get it back on CN to continue west.
I'm not buying my ticket yet but certainly hopeful!
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And VIA almost has another Done Deal with CP:
Looks like they may soon acquire a 28 mile segment of track between Smiths Falls and Brockville from Canadian Pacific. (News item is buried in this article).
http://www.recorder.ca/2015/07/23/is-completed-trail-the-next-stop
"They are encouraged by Via Rail's pending acquisition of the Brockville-to-Smiths-Falls line from CP Rail, a transaction Via president and chief executive officer Yves Desjardins-Siciliano expects to see completed in the coming weeks"
This will put nearly the entire route via Ottawa under VIA ownership and control and includes approximately 130 miles from DeBeaujeu (Coteau) to Brockville except for some terminal trackage in the Ottawa area.
These lines have already been upgraded for 'higher speed plus new signaling systems including on the CPs Brockville Subdivision they are about to acquire.
http://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail/capital-investment/project/brockville-subdivision
Something had to happen with the horrendous timekeeping the Canadian now experiences on the freight clogged CN main across northern Ontario. CP is not as busy as CN east of Winnipeg....but west of there....just as busy so don't expect a complete return to CP through Calgary and Banff.
And if it does happen....it would be an easy reroute. The Canadian already enters CP track at Perry Sound in directional running territory but instead of returning to CN just south of Sudbury.....it would continue on to Winnipeg where another fairly easy route is available to get it back on CN to continue west.
I'm not buying my ticket yet but certainly hopeful!
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And VIA almost has another Done Deal with CP:
Looks like they may soon acquire a 28 mile segment of track between Smiths Falls and Brockville from Canadian Pacific. (News item is buried in this article).
http://www.recorder.ca/2015/07/23/is-completed-trail-the-next-stop
"They are encouraged by Via Rail's pending acquisition of the Brockville-to-Smiths-Falls line from CP Rail, a transaction Via president and chief executive officer Yves Desjardins-Siciliano expects to see completed in the coming weeks"
This will put nearly the entire route via Ottawa under VIA ownership and control and includes approximately 130 miles from DeBeaujeu (Coteau) to Brockville except for some terminal trackage in the Ottawa area.
These lines have already been upgraded for 'higher speed plus new signaling systems including on the CPs Brockville Subdivision they are about to acquire.
http://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail/capital-investment/project/brockville-subdivision
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