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CN Turbo Train 1973 CMFT Radio News Recording Released

Just in time for the holidays High Speed Rail Canada has released a 1973 radio news segment from CFMT Montreal on the re-introduction of the CN Turbo Train into regular service. This news segment by Fred Langan, also features a very rare interview from 1968 done after the ill fated inaugural run of the CN Turbo Train. The CN Turbo Train still holds the record for being Canada's fastest passenger rail train. Go to the High Speed Rail Canada website and click on the CN Turbo Train tab to listen to the interview. Happy holidays from High Speed Rail Canada.

Canada-USA High Speed Rail Possibilities – Part 2 Montreal-New York

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

VIAFast 2002 High Speed Rail Study Posted

Well it took us here at High Speed Rail Canada awhile to locate it but we finally loaded the VIA Rail Canada 2002 study relating to high speed rail in the Ontario-Quebec corridor. Its is available on our website http://highspeedrail.ca . Click on the Ontario/Quebec Tab. Unfortunately there are two issues with the study. 1. It was censored by VIA Rail and 2.It is a large file 66.5MB so it will take awhile to download. Eventually we will have the french version posted also.