Can we please stop assigning the term "high speed" to virtually any improvement whatsoever? Last I checked this line was still operating at or below 100 MPH. If those speeds didn't qualify as high speed half a century ago why on Earth should they qualify now?VIA owned track between Windsor and Chatham that was recently rebuilt and signaled for high-speed operation.
thank u sarah for that info u rule!!!!We used to have a train that traveled between Chicago and Toronto, but service stopped in 2004 due to a large decrease in ridership:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Limited
There was this one, too, but it ended long before the International:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Rainbow
[SIZE=10.5pt]After the ferries stopped shuttling passenger cars across the river…. CN had buses that looped through downtown Detroit connecting with the trains in Windsor. The buses lasted ‘till Amtrak. And after that the CN timetable had a note that limousine service between Windsor and Detroit was available.[/SIZE]CN also offered service between Detroit and Toronto by carrying through cars including sleepers on railcar ferries across the Detroit River to Windsor where the cars were attached to CN trains to/from Toronto.
i remember the via and the cp or cn had seperate train stationsIt seems to me that there are two challenges with passenger service across the US/Canada border in the Detroit/Windsor region. First, station placement and existing trackage makes it difficult if not impossible for a cross-border train to serve Detroit Amtrak station and/or Windsor VIA Rail station. Second, the border security requirements adds a great deal of uncertainty to schedules and is hardly an inducement to travel. (I think we hardly want to set up another Maple Leaf Niagara Falls arrangement; however, a Cascades Vancouver or future Adirondack Montreal setup might work.)
If we're stuck with the current border arrangement, then having VIA Rail trains terminate in Detroit rather than Windsor could be an option, assuming a segregated facility could be built at the Detroit station, like the current situation at Vancouver and the proposed arrangement at Montreal. However, this still sets up a difficult situation in either trying to access the Windsor station or in skipping it (as mentioned earlier).
The original CN Station was on the waterfront near where the railcar ferries docked. CN moved out to the Walkerville area in the early 1960s and this was also the VIA station until they replaced it a year or so ago at the same location.i remember the via and the cp or cn had seperate train stations
in windsor and both were not near each other
A “Railiner-Autorail” was CN’s name for a train using Budd RDC self-propelled railcars. VIA still uses them today on the Sudbury-White River train.(1) Does anyone have more info on that Railiner/Autorailer service? Was that an Auto Train-type service of some kind that ran TWO-CHI?
Once out of the Tunnel on the Windsor end….CP trains follow their mainline to Chatham, London, Galt and into Toronto.where do those C P train's go when they leave the tunnel in windsor?
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