6+ hour, 43+ min ago  (654+ words) Winnipeg 22° C, Partly cloudy Rhoda de Meulles arrived late to her doctor’s appointment in Thompson with a reason: the train was delayed. The Via Rail locomotive had pulled into the northern Manitoba city roughly 31/2 hours later than expected. De Meulles…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (281+ words) Winnipeg 16° C, Cloudy In the early 1980s, a tunnel at the base of the Alps diverted rail traffic and prompted the closure of the historic mountain route until volunteers stepped in. Hundreds of them, nicknamed the railway’s “pioneers,” have spent hours…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (166+ words) OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to cancel a proposed high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City. Poilievre calls the project a “boondoggle” and said it would waste taxpayer dollars while confiscating farmland. Alto,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1054+ words) MONTREAL – The dream of rapid, affordable travel between Central Canada’s biggest cities is alive again as centuries-old concepts — nation-building and trains — meet in the form of a high-speed rail project slated to break ground in fewer than five years. The…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (714+ words) Rail relocation and a Canadian National Railway derailment have both been recent news. Trains are also noisy. Large diesel engines, whistles from time to time, shunting cars and metal cars of various configurations supported by steel wheels running on steel…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1045+ words) Winnipeg 6° C, Partly cloudy with wind Raymond Godoski looks across the street at train tracks surrounded by knee-high weeds — a scruffy patch that’s a blight on his neighbourhood. He needs to keep his yard and the boulevard trimmed, so it’s…...