Daily train service in Canada.
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@infobeautiful wow… if they have the rails on the ground, it is pity not to use them as much as possible
@babaq @infobeautiful oh they are used… by freight trains and there’s no law requiring freight to yield so the passenger trains are delayed
i think VIA Rail’s on time performance is like 30%
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@infobeautiful we should be so ashamed of ourselves.
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@babaq @infobeautiful I just looked into it, as I have to get from Toronto to Vancouver at some point. Trains run twice a week, take 4 days (!) and cost over CA$500 for a seat, CA$3,500 for a sleeper.
@rupert I feel your pain… it's the same story in Europe, flying is not only faster but also cheaper (among the others, not all externalities are included in flight ticket prices)
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@sjaakkeuvelaar @infobeautiful the shrink is not covered by insurance in the wonderful state of Netherland?
@fataqe @infobeautiful
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@babaq @infobeautiful I just looked into it, as I have to get from Toronto to Vancouver at some point. Trains run twice a week, take 4 days (!) and cost over CA$500 for a seat, CA$3,500 for a sleeper.
@rupert @babaq @infobeautiful sleeper is recommended because you will have a berth, three meals a day and stopover in Capreol on when the attendants want to. In tronno you have access to lounge.. i would still prefer half the price. Mmhhh.. the domes are social hubs.. Better than former ICE3 seats...
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@yncke
I was confused too but Canada is huge I gues.
Coast to coast by train is like a week or something.Compared to Europe you have to call the orient express I think.
@infobeautiful@deusfigendi @yncke @infobeautiful Canada has something people love to talk about. austria would like to have something like this. australia pays even more to journey beyond... the Canadian feels like an orient express... 71 year old cars, queenslanders, Germans, Canadians and entire Altersheims....
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful so what happened to the trains? No demand? Too expensive to run? Snow on the lines?
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@infobeautiful wow… if they have the rails on the ground, it is pity not to use them as much as possible
@babaq @infobeautiful I did the Churchill train a few years ago. There are so many issues with the rail service, most of which stem from the fact that a private company bought the track, let it fall into disrepair, and prioritizes cargo over passenger trains.
There were so many times that the train either had to slow to a crawl on uneven tracks, or heed right of way for cargo. Our train out was cancelled at the last minute, and the train back took about 50% longer than advertised.
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@yncke
I was confused too but Canada is huge I gues.
Coast to coast by train is like a week or something.Compared to Europe you have to call the orient express I think.
@infobeautiful@deusfigendi @yncke @infobeautiful to be exact: a night in the museum
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@infobeautiful@vis.social @uptheroader@vis.social I'm pretty sure there's a daily Montreal->Kingston link (not going through Ottawa)
@driusan @infobeautiful The corridor goes through kingston if no other disturbances are on the tracks
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful In Canada, we mostly use our rail lines for freight.
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZwhy did we choose poverty
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@infobeautiful
Same in the Netherlands: a lot of track has disappeared over the years. This is all that’s left (with an every ten minute schedule on the main lines)@sjaakkeuvelaar @infobeautiful
The Netherlands (42k km^2) is almost half the area of New Brunswick (73k km^2).
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful Some of the tracks are physically gone.
Port Hawkesbury to North Sydney is abandonned. About to be pulled out.
Line to Gaspé is half abandonned but there is hope to restore service to Gaspé.Ottawa-Sudbury (CP) et Ottawa-Capreol (CN) are mostly gone. A short line has kept Sudbury-NorthBay-Mattawa but tracks pulled between Mattawa and Ottawa. CN is all gone.
Senneterre to Cochane no longer connects. But Val d'Or to Kirkland Falls still exists (was no passenger soervice). -
Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful And Victoria Nanaimo Courtney is abandonned, and while tracks still there more of way, were pulled from downtown Victoria.
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful Halifax to Montreal rail still exists, but it's not a daily service and it takes almost 24 hours. (It's a 13 hour drive, or under 2 hours nonstop by plane.)
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@infobeautiful I kind of understand why america doesn't have bullet trains (they went full retard: never go full retard). But how the hell Canada doesn't have a Quebec-Montreal-Toronto bullet train line??
Doug want more highway, Doug no like train.
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@infobeautiful so what happened to the trains? No demand? Too expensive to run? Snow on the lines?
Personal vehicles burning oil/gas on inefficiently designed roads to serve the few at the cost of the many.
Canada loves monopolies and sucking off corporations.
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful Sure would be nice if we didn't septopple down on oil and LNG in the middle of an oil and LNG shortage
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful Huge budget cuts to rail in the eighties by Trudeau and then Mulroney did enormous and long-lasting damage.
