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National passenger operator VIA Rail has awarded Rail GD a C$16·4m contract to refurbish four dining cars for use on the trans-continental The Canadian service.
Posted yesterday by newsbot
Crews extinguished a fire in a rail car in west Vancouver near the intersection of West Fourth Plain Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue.
Posted 3 days ago by bevans
Transportation officials representing Portland, Seattle and Vancouver are in talks to bring rail line to the Cascadia megaregion
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
A special interest group focused on restoring passenger rail service to the north is sharing its progress and its next steps.
Posted 6 days ago by Railpage System User
“At the investor day, CP highlighted its transition post-Hunter Harrison,” Seidl noted. “While respect was certainly shown toward the rail giant’s career and impact on CP as CEO, CP management, led by CEO Keith Creel, is successfully putting its stamp on this post-Hunter era, as evidenced by strong preliminary 3Q results.
Posted one week ago by bevans
The inspection vehicles were the first traffic since the washout in May 2017
Posted one week ago by newsbot
The new owners of the rail line to Churchill have reached a milestone in efforts to restore rail service to the northern community, although it remains unclear if that will happen before winter.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
CP estimates that its third-quarter revenues will grow by 19% to an all-time record high of approximately C$1.9 billion. The operating ratio is expected to be below 58.5%. Reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) are expected to be approximately C$4.35, and adjusted diluted EPS is expected to be approximately $4.10, the highest in CP’s history.
Posted one week ago by newsbot
North Coast residents can learn more about the Ridley Island-based project at the open houses
Posted one week ago by newsbot
The RCMP is disputing claims by Canada’s largest railway union that paramedics were delayed from responding to a deadly derailment in northern Manitoba.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
The three-year deals cover transportation of approximately 100,000 barrels per day of heavy crude oil from northern Alberta to various destinations on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Posted 2 weeks ago by newsbot
More than 200,000 barrels of oil are now carried by rail each day, up from less than 30,000 in 2012
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
GCT Deltaport went live Monday with its intermodal yard expansion project designed to improve productivity, increase safety, and expand the capacity of rail operations at Vancouver’s largest container terminal at GCT Deltaport.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
'It’s pretty spectacular for an urban-type trail to have so much nature around it,' says trail ambassador
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
Canadian National says nine train cars derailed or were damaged at a yard in Prince George, B.C., as they were being rearranged during switching operations Thursday afternoon.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
The irony is that 2019 will be the 60th anniversary of the end of electric rail transit on Ottawa. The final streetcar route was abandoned on May 2, 1959.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Protective Direction 39, issued by Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau, comes under Section 32 of Canada’s 1992 Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992, and is considered “necessary to deal with an emergency that involves a danger to public safety.
Posted 3 weeks ago by newsbot
No estimate yet for when the service could be restored
Posted 3 weeks ago by newsbot
Canada’s transportation department said on Wednesday it would bring forward the deadlines for phasing out crash susceptible rail tank cars that carry crude oil and other dangerous goods.
Posted 4 weeks ago by newsbot
One of the two male workers who were removed from a train that derailed south of Thompson has died and the second worker has life-threatening injuries, RCMP said.
Posted last month by bevans
Canadian National Railway's embargo on moving ethanol rail cars to Kinder Morgan's Argo, Illinois, terminal has had little effect on the key North American market so far, sources said Tuesday.
Posted last month by newsbot
There has been a train derailment in the Lethbridge area after a CP Rail train came off the tracks just east of Coaldale on Friday morning. As Kyle Benning reports, this is far from the first derailment in southern Alberta this year.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
The Government of Canada has approved funds totalling C$1.37bn ($1.04bn) for two major rapid transit projects of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
GE Transportation has announced that CN will acquire 60 additional locomotives, expanding the class I’s 200-unit order placed in December 2017.
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In 2015, Stadler received an order for the design, development and production of ten custom-built GoldLeaf railcars to complete the Rocky Mountaineer fleet. The first car is completing track testing in Canada.
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