High Speed Rail Canada - High Noon for High Speed Rail Series by Paul Langan, Founder High Speed Rail Canada - 12/14/09 The High Speed Rail (HSR) passenger rail renewal is coming to North America the question is where will it be implemented . I would like to examine the cross border opportunities for HSR that have been put forward. Most if not all the passenger rail corridors improvements currently envisioned connecting Canada and the USA would result in higher speed passenger rail as opposed to true high speed rail. (over 200kph). I would like to examine the Montreal-New York HSR proposal and the latest information on this corridor. All Canada/USA cross border rail corridors share three significant fundamental challenges. These challenges have been identified in Part 1 of our series . The Montreal – New York City has not been identified by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) as a possible HSR corridor. Although part of the corridor from New York City to Albany , NY does fall und