OPINION A revised ONTC mandate could allow extended passenger rail service in Northern Ontario

By Lucille Frith, Spokesperson for NEORN, BayToday.ca; January 31, 2018 Corina Moore, ONTC CEO spoke last week about the future…

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Next Stop: Your Room, at the World’s Best Railway Hotels

By Michael Kaminer, The Points Guy; January 27, 2018 Railway hotels conjure a sepia-toned, steam-shrouded era of travel, when rival…

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Chicago: Why Canadian Pacific needs every inch of its Bensenville rail yard

By Claire Bushey, Crain’s Chicago Business; January 26, 2018 The freight cars lining the rail yard tracks just south of…

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Canada’s Oil Producers, in Standoff With Railways, Sit Out Oil-Price Rally

By Vipal Monga and David George-Cosh, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Fox Business News; January 28, 2018 TORONTO…

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Canada: CP Rail seeks ‘skin in the game’ from shippers to increase bitumen transport

By The Canadian Press, CBC News Calgary; January 26, 2018 Canadian Pacific Railway is asking crude-by-rail shippers to sign multi-year,…

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Quebec: The night the Swiss Cheese holes lined up

Opinion by Art Miller, Railway Age Magazine; January 26, 2018 After nearly three months of emotional courtroom proceedings and nine…

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Montreal: Exporail train museum keeps track of winter

By Sarah Deshaies, Special to Montreal Gazette; January 26, 2018 Snow is both a pleasure and a chore, and two…

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Ontario: Is the return of the Northlander passenger train a reality?

By Chris Dawson, BayToday.ca; January 24, 2018 Corina Moore hopes as Ontario Northland continues to build momentum that one day…

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Ontario: Seen as first step to multi-modal system with a future rail ‘spine’

From The North Bay Nugget; January 25, 2018 Two Ontario rail advocacy groups say the recent expansion of Ontario Northland…

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Ontario: Train groups continue lobby efforts for North

By Elaine Della-Mattia, Sault Star; January 22, 2018 City council has thrown their support behind efforts to renew passenger train…

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Ontario: Metrolinx launches ‘cheeky’ book on how to behave on public transit

From CBC News Toronto; January 24, 2018 GO Transit has produced a book on how to behave on its buses…

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Congestion issues delay but won’t derail CN, analysts say

By Jonathan Ratner, Calgary Herald; January 24, 2018 Investors appear to have largely shrugged off Canadian National Railway Co.’s weak…

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Under VIA’s plan, Quebec-to-Windor travel would involve the REM

By Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette; January 25, 2018 The proposed $4-billion project to have dedicated tracks along the Quebec-Windsor route…

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Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau supportive of VIA Rail’s $1.5-billion request for new trains

By Bill Curry, The Globe and Mail; January 23, 2018 The Liberal government is sharpening its scrutiny of Via Rail’s…

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VIA Rail Canada misses stop, send passengers by cab to final destination

From CBC News Windsor; January 23, 2018 A Via Rail passenger heading to Chatham ultimately got to her final destination…

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Jasper, Alberta is Canada’s winter wanderland

By Margo Pfeiff, Los Angeles Times; January 21, 2018 Snowflakes tumbled lazily in the light of the train as it…

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It started in the 19th century as the Canada Railway News Company, now Cara’s ready for U.S. and Canadian expansion after the Keg’s purchase

By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press, National Post; January 23, 2018 TORONTO — Cara Operations Ltd. is beefing up its…

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Exclusive: Activist investor William Ackman who won a fight to bring the late Hunter Harrison to Canadian Pacific cuts staff, shuns limelight as he seeks to turn around fund

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Reuters; January 22, 2018 BOSTON (Reuters) – William Ackman is cutting almost a fifth of staff and…

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Freight-rail groups: Don’t scrap NAFTA

From Progressive Railroading Magazine; January 23, 2018 Freight-rail industry representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico are calling for…

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Quebec: Three former rail workers found not guilty in Lac-Mégantic disaster trial

By Justin Giovannetti, The Globe And Mail; January 19, 2018 Four-and-a-half years after a runaway train exploded and killed 47…

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Canadian Pacific Railway sees best-ever Q4

By Stuart Chirls, Senior Editor, Railway Age Magazine; January 19, 2018 Canadian Pacific Railway had its best-ever fourth quarter, with…

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Ontario Northland rolls into the Sault; train service still needed

By Elaine Della-Mattia, Sault Star; January 16, 2018 Ontario Northland has expanded its bus service westward to include Espanola, Sault…

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Quebec: Lac-Megantic rail disaster jurors are at an impasse, a judge has been told

By The Canadian Press; National Post; January 18, 2018 SHERBROOKE, Que. — The jurors at the Lac-Megantic trial have told…

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