Fifth in a Series: In the first four articles in this series, as well as in a separate article that focused on rail transit and tourist railroads in Canada, I described my adventures on rails during a ...

At 6:15 PM Eastern time on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, I achieved a milestone in my “career” of riding trains. As VIA Rail Train 601 rolled into Jonquiere, Quebec, I completed the adventure of riding the ...

Tardiness is nothing new at Via Rail, but late arrivals are reaching historic levels in a key corridor since passenger trains have been forced to slow down at hundreds of rail crossings operated by CN ...

Less than 20 years ago, intercity commuters leaving Toronto at 5 p.m. could take an express Via Rail train from Union Station in downtown Toronto and arrive at Central Station in downtown Montreal in ...

Canada’s national rail passenger service VIA Rail Canada has revealed the initial trainset of its new fleet that will operate on the Québec City–Windsor corridor. The first 32 new trains of VIA Rail’s ...

Via Rail is increasing the number of trains running between several cities in Quebec and Ontario starting September 1. Citing an increasing demand for intercity travel, and provincial measures taking ...

The federal NDP's transport critic is worried a new high-speed rail project in Ontario and Quebec will kill off publicly-subsidized passenger service in western Canada, the Prairies and the Maritimes.

A fierce winter storm that had stranded hundreds of Via Rail passengers in Ontario and Quebec overnight has morphed into a cancellation of all trains in the service’s Toronto-Ottawa and ...

Canada's national passenger rail service is currently hiring On Train Service Attendants in Ontario and Quebec. That includes ...