It is no secret that High Speed Rail Canada loves reminding Canadians we had faster trains in this country 35 years ago then we do now. That trains was the CN UAC Turbo train. Check out our Turbo page for all the photos, videos and documents related to the Turbo. One thing we didn't have was the TURBO LUNCH BOX! Now we do. We got this piece of history from London, Ontario. Enjoy.

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

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...