A new video of the CN Turbo train which ran between Toronto and Montreal in 3hrs and 59minutes.

High Speed Rail Canada Releases Rare 1973 Radio Interview On Board CN Turbo Train High Speed Rail Canada has released a rare radio interview done on board the CN Turbo train in 1973. WireService.ca Press Release (07/12/2018)  - High Speed Rail Canada is the only national advocacy group dedicated to promoting the modernization of passenger rail in Canada. High Speed Rail Canada's mandate is to educate people on the benefits of modern passenger rail. They do it through their website  http://www.highspeedrailcanada.com  , Youtube channel, Facebook, Twitter  ;@HSRCanada  and public educational sessions. The Turbo train ran in Canada's from 1968-1982. It holds the record in Canada for the fastest train with 226 km/h. That record was set in 1976. High Speed Rail Canada has obtained an ultra rare CBC radio interview done on board the train. Reporter Bob McGregor interviews CN Vice President Frank Roberts. They comment on the turbo’s speed, service an...

Adding the new paint scheme to the Turbo Train! We are excited to announce that we have found 28 professionally taken slides of the CN/VIA Turbo Train. That was Canada's only high speed train that ran from 1968-1982. These slides are from the Lorne Perry collection and feature photos from different periods of the Turbo. There are also some rare photos taken inside the train. Check back on our website on May 3rd and you will have access to view them all.

We are so glad we found these John Stewart slides from the last run of the VIA Rail (CN) Turbo Train on October 3st, 1982. For Turbo fans these are the rarest of rare. Enjoy the photos on our Flickr page. Here is a link to the album. CLICK HERE . If you ever use the photos please give credit to John Stewart. Enjoy

October 31st, 1982 Turbo Train It pays to start cleaning out your storage areas. John Stewart had lent me his slides of the Turbo Train. The slides were take on October 31st, 1982. It was the last run of the Turbo from Toronto to Montreal. I had recently been going through my collections and found these slides again. Although not always the best quality photos they certainly are the rarest photos of  CN/VIA/ Turbo Train In 7 days on October 31st, we will post a link to them on our website. It will be exactly 34 years since since Canada ’ s only high speed train operated. For now you can look through our world ’ s largest collection of Turbo Train by clicking HERE .

TURBO TRAIN June 1977 Always love when I can post a great Turbo Train photo from when Canada had high speed trains. This photo from Dale Wilson from June 8, 1977, is of the spare Turbo Engineman, taken from the passenger compartment of a westbound Turbo dome approaching Kingston.

Recently CBC's Kitchener Andrea Bellemore and Toronto Transit Guru Steve Munro both slammed Minister Glen Murray and the Ontario Liberal plan to modernize passenger rail through London, Stratford, Kitchener, Toronto. CBC , MUNRO

Unbelievable footage inside and outside Canada's fastest high speed train UAC CN Turbo Train. We guess the footage is from aroun 1968. Professional British footage. WOW! Just when I thought we had all the professionally shot footage of the Turbo we find this!

High Speed Rail Canada is releasing to the public for free the train schematic diagrams of the former Canadian National/United Aircraft high speed Turbo Train. WireService.ca Media Release - January 15th, 2013 - High Speed Rail Canada is a national non profit organization dedicated to educating Canadians on the benefits of modern passenger rail in Canada. They do it through their blog, youtube video channel, Facebook site and public symposiums. High Speed Rail Canada has the largest audio and video collection of the UAC CN Turbo train. This train ran from 1968 through to 1982. It was Canada's high speed train with speeds over 200km/h. These 1969 CN TURBO TRAIN Equipment Location Diagrams Model TMT-7D are from United Aircraft Canada are being made available for the first time ever for the public. Paul Langan, Founder of High Speed Rail Canada states, " Our mandate is to educate Canadians on high speed rail. These detailed train diagrams from Canada's Turbo Trai...

We will be announcing very soon, the ultimate Canadian FREE high speed rail present for all supporters of High Speed Rail Canada. It is no secret we are big fans of reminding Canadians that we had higher speed trains, e.g The UA CN TURBO in the past. We will have has a pdf download on this blog, the ORIGINAL CN TURBO TRAIN Equipment Location Diagrams Model TMT-7D from United Aircraft Canada. These are simply spectacular. The UAC CN Turbo ran from 1968 to 1984 in Canada and often had speeds over 200km/h. This has been well documented. To get pumped up for the Equipment Diagrams release go to our archives and listen to complete official 1967 CN press conference announcing the Turbo. Journey back in time when Canada actually had a vision for high speed rail. My hope is that some politician/ business leaders in Canada will look at these diagrams and say, YES, we can have high speed trains again in Canada and do it better. Stay tuned for the official press release and download info...

We have loaded this holiday gift - the ultra rare Turbo Train film titled, "3:59" - to our youtube channel. We searched for 10 years to get this film! http://www.youtube.com/user/HighSpeedRailCanada Happy Holiday!

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.