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    VIA Rail

    I can show you core parts of the ICE network where it took more than 20 years to plan, fund, design and build a second track for a conventional rail line. In fact, Dortmund-Münster (part of the Köln-Hamburg corridor) is still waiting for this to even happen…
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    VIA Rail

    Which would really not make this project an outlier compared to European HSR projects:
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    VIA Rail

    I‘m sure the same was said at some point about steam engines hauling the „Ocean Ltd.“, „California Zephyr“ and other iconic trains in North America…
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    I can’t really conment how realistic this plan is, but the plan seems to be that the private sector shoulders most of that cost, and repays their share of capital costs through the operating profits HxR will generate, maybe supplemented by some annual subsidies. This might very well end up more...
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    VIA Rail

    I don‘t think that the amount of graffiti and vandalism on trains are that much of a cultural thing (at least not when comparing North America and Europe): both were so epidemic on the NYC Subway throughout the 1970s that it even has its own Winipedia entry...
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    Intercity Bus Services

    That‘s what I was thinking: it‘s difficult to believe that the market would support that many different operators Tourists? I would expect that the key demographic using the buses would be students and other low-income groups, not tourists…
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    Intercity Bus Services

    How many operators are there now on that route?
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    VIA Rail

    I’d assume that the question is less whether it can be fixed than whether th ressources (funding, material, parts, labour) to fix a 40-year-old locomotive are being made available…
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    The JR companies generally operate all trains from Shinkansen over intercity to commuter rail. In metropolitan areas, there are also non-JR railroads, but they mostly have their own infrastructure. Given that the modal share of rail freight is microscopic in Japan (I saw a single freight train...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    As long as there is no decision on HxR, there certainly won’t be any additional order. Should HxR go ahead in the HSR variant and require an entirely new fleet, there will be more than enough fleet for any foreseeable Corridor application…
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    IIRC, VIA has an option for an additional 16 trainsets. I don’t see a reason why VIA couldn’t just order individual extra cars rather than entire trainsets (which would of course be even more useful)…
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    From the configurations I recalled from one of the public presentations, the cars removed for a 3-car trainset are not the sames which get added onto a 7-car trainset. Therefore, I don’t see any scope for extending trainsets unless VIA orders and receives extra units for the 2 car types they...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    I’m not sure I understand: adding seats or adding cars? And do you want to discuss the increment in costs or profits/subsidy?
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    If the province of Ontario doesn’t want to foot the bill of extending HxR West of Toronto alone, it might think twice before undermining the economic viability of the federal intercity railroad…
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    VIA Rail

    The most common platform heights in Europe are 55 and 76 cm, with some countries like the UK having opted for even higher heights…: You are in luck, as I’ve previously posted here a breakdown of platform-heights-by-German-State and it shows that all but 8 out of the 210 platforms in Berlin...

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