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While I agree with you, the provincial governments have a very different view on these things. They tend to want the federal government...

It would therefore require a strong political and financial commitment from the ON&QC governments, just like some 95% of road funding in...

I've also said this before, but part of the problem is the politics stemming from us being such a large country. While half of the...

I would kill for an HSR electrified 270kmph across the country.

Ahh. That makes sense. I wasn't aware of that.

Considering that Railterm has been acquired by Siemens, you most likely saw a ROW/signalling maintenance truck:

Possibly, but Siemens does have contracts to do signal and other maintenance on various lines - their trucks are popping up all over. -...

I just thought it was interesting that they were Siemens trucks on scene. I guess they could also have the contract to support the...

^Once the crossing protection is declared "out of service" it remains as such until the maintainers notify the RTC that it is back in...

It might be that the barriers remained activated after the previous train passed through (activation contacts usually are more reliable...

I’m currently on train 35 (one of the Venture trainsets) and we came to a complete stop to “protect the crossing” at Dunning Rd (between...

So what you are saying is if they book through a tour operator they likely aren’t spending much money in Canada other than the cost of...

I may be unpopular for saying this, but - I was a bit fearful when I saw that the presentation was made by a Minister other than...

To be fair: the presentation slide says „Couchette“, whereas the equivalent to cabins would be „Sleepers“, so hopefully there is a...

I would hope that they have both couchette and sleeper cars. There is a tendency by bureaucratic institutions to loose track of the...