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 ...

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 ...

Bill C-15 includes the new High-Speed Rail Network Act, which lists steps that would accelerate regulatory approvals related to impact assessments and speed up expropriations.

VIA Rail Canada has started phase 1 of the procurement process to select a rolling stock manufacturer, which will replace the current Quebec-Windsor Corridor operating fleet with new vehicles. The ...

Train passengers on the Quebec–Windsor corridor are facing delays Monday due to heat-related speed restrictions, VIA Rail says. On its website Monday afternoon, the operator said some corridor trains ...

Via Rail has offered $31 million in travel vouchers to hundreds of thousands of passengers whose trains were more than one hour late since last fall, mostly as a result of new speed limits at rail ...

The weekend’s tragedy in Quebec, where at least 15 people were killed after an oil tanker train derailed and exploded in a small town near the Maine border, probably will not slow the tremendous ...

You can find VIA Rail jobs in B.C. that get you travel perks but don't require you to travel for work. The positions pay up ...