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I am getting 403 Forbidden when trying to access the Map but the forum is fine Okay looks like the web server the News and Maps sub sites use doesn’t like my Bell Fibe router (74.12.251.182) but is fine with my cell

Indian railways have done R&D on extended height pantographs to facilitate that. https://m.indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/1007216 Presumably that also means a higher structure gauge and any grade separations being more heavily weighted to rail over road.

It seems to me simpler to discontinue White River than go looking to CP for hundreds of more route miles of Canadian ops and relocate Capreol operations to somewhere on the CP route @lenaitch re your comment about GO north. Before reinstatement of Northlander I would have gone along with that...

Nippon have shipped UPX-type DMUs from Japan before, but need to use a better shipping company this time https://ecoring.org/posts/four-new-rail-cars-costing-11-million-damaged-upon-delivery-to-smart/

when I lived near East General the noise which made me look up in irritation was seaplanes, given their slow climb rate and propensity to follow the DVP. At least the Q400s stayed over the lake and had a decent climb rate. Maybe it's time those folks heard "why are you still flying when the...

Legislation by whom? Queens Park? Sure - they could contract in the TSB as the rail accident investigator of record and put a provision in the relevant provincial statutes that the TSB can initiate investigations when it deemed appropriate as if it were an independent Ontario agency. However...

Some disquiet in Gravenhurst over the choice to build a shelter rather than use the heritage station? https://muskokatoday.com/2026/03/ontario-northlands-ceo-being-hauled-before-gravenhurst-council-tuesday-to-explain-why-towns-train-station-wont-be-next-stop-for-this-summer-return-of-passenger-ra/

At least with the Newmarket you only have to worry about relationships with CN since the OVR doesn’t seem to have a main track connection with it. With Kitchener London you would have at least GEXR and VIA underfoot too, plus a CP diamond in London…

I think anyone who has heard the “dying whale” sound of a geared turbofan overhead might doubt that the new gen jets are necessarily quieter. Re the ferry, I could see the proponents of this offering a tunnel under the current 06/24 through the airport lands, connecting to the existing foot...

Re: Gaspe - I note they are only committing to run a train as far as they can wye. Presumably that means F40 and 2-3 worn out HEPs and that's your lot. Ideally Quebec and New Brunswick would acquire their respective stretch of the Ocean trackages as their contribution to a service which is more...

They don't own the OVR Sudbury-Mattawa as it is... might want to swallow their current acquisition first before looking to chew on those.

I wonder what capital deficits are on that line. Hope I am wrong but I think I remember @smallspy saying some of the track Metrolinx picked up in the GTA had quite a lot of deferred work which had to addressed after the acquisition. It is quite a statement of intent though. At least if ONR pays...

High speed rail has also been 15 years from killing YTZ for the last 15 years, and there’s a good chance the same will be true in your projected 15 years, given the current vacillating over routes.

UPX was supposed to make YTZ redundant. And yet.

Okay so maybe Brad Bradford instead, since Tory has just issued a typically wordy statement saying he’s out