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VIA Rail will probably not stop in Kaladar Ontario

Kaladar Station Road today. We think VIA Rail will not stop in Kaladar! VIA Rail will probably not stop in Kaladar Ontario It was good news in the budget that VIA Rail has been given the green light to buy much needed new equipment. You can learn all about it on their page . The other part of  the VIA Rail renewal is their misguided High Frequency Rail idea. This billion dollar boondoggle has VIA trains, travelling at 1975 era speeds, through sparsely populated areas on an abandoned Ontario-Quebec Railway line. (Toronto - Tweed - Peterborough to Ottawa). The idea is ridiculous and the business case and proposed route would be a cruel joke if we could see them. Sadly taxpayers who would fund it, cannot comment or see the proposal before the Liberal government approves it.  We at High Speed Rail Canada love rail history so it has been fun finding all the old station stops and following the winding route the line used to follow. It is now part of the Canada trail sys...