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  1. VIA Rail considering a station at Montréal Metropolitan Airport (CYHU), at the latter’s request.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sa
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    VIA Rail considère une station à l’aéroport métropolitain de Montréal (CYHU), à la demande de ce-dernier.

    // Article en anglais //

    #SaintLambert #StLambert #Longueuil #Montréal #YHU #CYHU #VIARail

  2. VIA Rail considering a station at Montréal Metropolitan Airport (CYHU), at the latter’s request.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sa
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    VIA Rail considère une station à l’aéroport métropolitain de Montréal (CYHU), à la demande de ce-dernier.

    // Article en anglais //

    #SaintLambert #StLambert #Longueuil #Montréal #YHU #CYHU #VIARail

  3. VIA Rail considering a station at Montréal Metropolitan Airport (CYHU), at the latter’s request.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sa
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    VIA Rail considère une station à l’aéroport métropolitain de Montréal (CYHU), à la demande de ce-dernier.

    // Article en anglais //

    #SaintLambert #StLambert #Longueuil #Montréal #YHU #CYHU #VIARail

  4. VIA Rail considering a station at Montréal Metropolitan Airport (CYHU), at the latter’s request.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sa
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    VIA Rail considère une station à l’aéroport métropolitain de Montréal (CYHU), à la demande de ce-dernier.

    // Article en anglais //

    #SaintLambert #StLambert #Longueuil #Montréal #YHU #CYHU #VIARail

  5. VIA Rail considering a station at Montréal Metropolitan Airport (CYHU), at the latter’s request.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sa
    - - -
    VIA Rail considère une station à l’aéroport métropolitain de Montréal (CYHU), à la demande de ce-dernier.

    // Article en anglais //

    #SaintLambert #StLambert #Longueuil #Montréal #YHU #CYHU #VIARail

  6. Sunday NewsHawk: Ukraine Diplomacy, Iran Escalation, Canadian Tariffs and Northern Ontario Priorities

    Image: depositphotos.com THUNDER BAY – NEWS – International security, Canada’s approaching tariff deadline and several major Northern Ontario…
    #Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #Alstom #canadanews #CanadianTariffs #forestfires #Iran #LabourDay2026 #Newshawk #northernontario #northwesternontario #thunderbaynews #ViaRail #Worldnews
    europesays.com/ukraine/38171/

  7. Feds announce $4.7B for new Via Rail passenger cars to be build in Ontario, Quebec

    The federal government is investing more than $4.7 billion for VIA Rail to acquire and maintain 313 new passenger…
    #Canada #AlstomCanada #passengerrail #Pomerleau #VIARailCanada #VIARail'sFleetReplacementProgram
    europesays.com/canada/196005/

  8. The C$4.7B is the largest investment in #ViaRail history. For the 1st time in 40 yrs Via’s 313 new passenger cars will be built entirely on #Canada 's soil. Roughly 700 #jobs across Ontario & Quebec. Ottawa figures north of C$1.6B in economic spinoff.

    Here is the part that matters, the part that made America’s Rapist-in-Chief snap like a child with Dementia.

    Those cars used to be built in the USA.

    Not anymore.

    deanblundell.substack.com/p/br #tariffs #US #TradeWar

  9. The C$4.7B is the largest investment in #ViaRail history. For the 1st time in 40 yrs Via’s 313 new passenger cars will be built entirely on #Canada 's soil. Roughly 700 #jobs across Ontario & Quebec. Ottawa figures north of C$1.6B in economic spinoff.

    Here is the part that matters, the part that made America’s Rapist-in-Chief snap like a child with Dementia.

    Those cars used to be built in the USA.

    Not anymore.

    deanblundell.substack.com/p/br #tariffs #US #TradeWar

  10. The C$4.7B is the largest investment in #ViaRail history. For the 1st time in 40 yrs Via’s 313 new passenger cars will be built entirely on #Canada 's soil. Roughly 700 #jobs across Ontario & Quebec. Ottawa figures north of C$1.6B in economic spinoff.

    Here is the part that matters, the part that made America’s Rapist-in-Chief snap like a child with Dementia.

    Those cars used to be built in the USA.

    Not anymore.

    deanblundell.substack.com/p/br #tariffs #US #TradeWar

  11. The C$4.7B is the largest investment in #ViaRail history. For the 1st time in 40 yrs Via’s 313 new passenger cars will be built entirely on #Canada 's soil. Roughly 700 #jobs across Ontario & Quebec. Ottawa figures north of C$1.6B in economic spinoff.

    Here is the part that matters, the part that made America’s Rapist-in-Chief snap like a child with Dementia.

    Those cars used to be built in the USA.

    Not anymore.

    deanblundell.substack.com/p/br #tariffs #US #TradeWar

  12. The C$4.7B is the largest investment in #ViaRail history. For the 1st time in 40 yrs Via’s 313 new passenger cars will be built entirely on #Canada 's soil. Roughly 700 #jobs across Ontario & Quebec. Ottawa figures north of C$1.6B in economic spinoff.

    Here is the part that matters, the part that made America’s Rapist-in-Chief snap like a child with Dementia.

    Those cars used to be built in the USA.

    Not anymore.

    deanblundell.substack.com/p/br #tariffs #US #TradeWar

  13. Ok! I'm starting to save money now so I can travel in one of the luxurious cabins aboard The Canadian when the new cars will be delivered! 🤩🚆

    Renderings from @[email protected] X @[email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/via-ra...

    #canada #train #travel #viarail

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cxsbjrer3xb5adavm4wua52a/post/3mumzqwwcqs2m

  14. Prime Minister #Carney announces the largest investment in #VIARail ’s history to bring passenger rail car manufacturing back to Canada | Prime Minister of Canada

    pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases

  15. First question on the #VIARAIL announcement: "Can we expect service to return to Thunder Bay ? (service cut in 1989 when transcontinental was cut - The Super Continental passes on CN lines way north of Thunder Bay).

    Answer from VIA chair: With added fleet we gain new flexibility.

  16. I can't criticize the #VIARAIL announcement. But...

    Carney mentions steel, so they will be 1950s heavy cars.

    Also, Carney mentions everything will be made in Canada when there are no builders of train parts in Canada with experience. What he should have mentioned is that Alstom will be able to leverage its European suppliers so that the project has greater chances of actually working reliably. Last train built in Canada was in early 1980s by MLW shut down by Bombardier after last LRC built

  17. Prime Minister Mark Carney has issued press released confirming the #VIARail purchase.

    Press Release: (devoid of content)
    pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases

    Backgrounder:
    tc.canada.ca/en/rail-transport

    $4.7billion
    313 cars

    Sleeper: 78
    Accessible sleeper: 26
    Coach: 58
    Panorama: 38
    Baggage: 29
    Dome Cars: 25
    Dining Cars: 20
    Prestige Sleepers: 20
    Berth Cars: 19
    Total 313

    Preserves exlcusivity of Prestige.
    Entry in service 2031-2035
    Compatible with the old cars (mixed consists).

  18. “The federal govt will spend $4.7-billion to build and maintain more than 300 #ViaRail passenger rail cars in #Canada, using facilities in #Quebec and Thunder Bay, PM Mark Carney announced Thursday.

    Mr. Carney said the move represents a shift away from importing #trains from the USA.

    In July, the PM announced $1.6-billion for the production of 45 new locomotives for VIA Rail as well as a new assembly and maintenance facility in #Montreal.”

    theglobeandmail.com/politics/a

  19. Wow, huge announcement for VIA rail. Big fleet refresh, with all 313 of the new passenger cars made in Canada and European locomotives. Now if we could just fix the rail ownership and priority problem…

    pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases

    #viarail #canada #BuyCanadian #transit #trains

  20. HEADS UP !!!! #VIARAIL announcement on non-corridor fleet this Thursday.

    As expected, Alstom, with no experience in such cars, will be confirmed as winner with work done at La Pocatière and Thunderbay.

    Source: La Presse

    313 cars expected to be ordered. Significant.

    Half of VIA original fleet came from CP which had:
    Park: 18
    Manor: 42
    Chateau: 29
    Skyline: 18
    Dining: 18
    Coach: 30
    Baggage: 18
    Total: 173

    After 1989 cuts, VIA abandonned full CN fleet and part of CP's. So 313 is big.

  21. Did you know Via Rail has a fleet of British Rail Gauge train cars?

    They obtained them from a failed sleeper service through the Chunnel in the 90s. I rode with them on the Montréal to Halifax rail service called The Ocean. Part of a big rail journey I took this summer across eastern Canada and Europe.

    @rail #trains #railways #viarail #halifax

  22. All abord! The Renaissance Sleeper carries you between Halifax and Montreal on VIA Rail. The sleeper has a storied history, first being built for an overnight London-Paris train. It ended up here, and is the most British piece of rolling stock plying North America. No where else do you get such narrow side corridors!

    #trains #bahn #sleepers #halifax #montreal #railway #railfan #railfanning #eisenbahn #viarail
  23. Just got in to Jasper. Pretty close to on-time even!

    Had a terrible sleep but pretty much expected that. Looks smokier out than it smells at least.

    #Jasper #ViaRail

  24. Takin' the midnight train (and pulling a goofy face, I don't know what happened I'm tired ok).

    #yeg #ViaRail

  25. Via Rail charging $7 fee if I want to face forward. Seems like I'm paying a penalty for suffering from (occasional) motion sickness?

    No charge for the backwards facing seats...

    #trains #travel #capitalism #viarail #canada

  26. VIA Rail will build a multimodal transfer station in Dorval, Québec on the site of the current Dorval exo train station

    montreal.citynews.ca/2026/08/1
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    VIA Rail construira une station de transfert multimodal à Dorval, Québec sur le site de l'actuelle gare Dorval d'exo

    media.viarail.ca/fr/communique

    #Dorval #Montréal #VIARail #exo #ARTM

  27. This is cool.
    But a new train sitting on the siding for 4 hours to wait for a freight train when the entire journey is supposed to take 4 hours is the actual problem no one in government wants to solve.

    VIA Rail remains a national embarrassment because of successive Liberal and Conservative policy. Now they’ll just be a national embarrassment with new rolling stock.

    Oh and people can barely afford to take it across the country. It is mostly an embarrassing tourist fraud with spectacular views.

    Ask me how I really feel. 😆 🚂

    cbc.ca/news/politics/via-rail-

    #viaRail #canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #transportation #tourism

  28. This was to experience modern-day VIA Rail. Last time I took them was in 2016.

    And to Ottawa, it was like 2000!
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    C'était pour faire l'expérience de VIA Rail contemporain. La dernière fois que je les ai pris, c'était en 2016.

    Et vers Ottawa, c'était comme 2000!

    #VIARail #YMY #XDS #Montréal #Ottawa

  29. Looking at going to Ottawa using VIA Rail…

    The schedules are horrible. Like, departures at 6:20, 9:00, 11:54. And to return: 14:15, 16:05 and 17:55.

    I was look at something like 10-10:30 to go, and 19:30-20:00 to return 😢
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    Je regarder pour aller à Ottawa en utilisant VIA Rail...

    Les horaires sont horribles. Comme, départs à 6h20, 9h00, 11h54. Et pour revenir : 14h15, 16h05 et 17h55.

    Je regardais quelque chose comme 10-10h30 pour aller, et 19h30-20h00 pour revenir 😢

    #VIARail #YMY #XDS

  30. VIA Rail starts allowing bikes on some Ottawa—Québec trains starting today.

    It costs $25/bike

    viarail.ca/en/plan/baggages/sp
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    VIA Rail commence à accepter les vélos sur certains trains entre Ottawa et Québec à compter d’aujourd’hui

    Il en coûte 25$/vélo

    viarail.ca/fr/planifier/bagage

    via: forum.agoramtl.com/t/via-rail-

    #Ontario #Québec #VIARail

  31. Why is Via Rail using a legitimate, owned domain name as part of their example email!!!

    Domain Name: company.com
    Registry Domain ID: 5202_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
    Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com
    Updated Date: 2025-05-27T17:21:37Z
    Creation Date: 1994-07-07T23:00:00Z

    AAAAAAAAAA

    #viarail #canada #email #iana #cira

  32. Finding it amusing that I had to use a #VPN to post gourmet #Beer review to #BeerAdvocate on the #Train (#VIARail) due to their filter not liking any alcohol content.