It is completely mind boggling to me that proposing a simple rail system that would end up looking like this across Canada is generally met with claims of impossibility and impracticality.
(This is a transcontinental freight train in Austria heading to Italy and/or Slovenia and possibly beyond)
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Andreas Wiedenhoff (@andreaswiedenhoff@rail.chat)
Attached: 1 image A photo taken earlier this week, while on a walk in the #Villach 🇦🇹 area - a walk which led me, by pure coincidence of course 😉, to the train station at Warmbad Villach: an #ÖBB Class 1293 #Vectron leads a southbound freight, for e…Rail.chat
Tobias Merkendorf
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in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •To whit: Canada in 1974 pop. 22 million vs
Canada in 2024 pop. 40 million.
These are maps of the networks for CPRail and Greyhound buses in 1974.
Both CPRail and Greyhound have ceased to exist in terms of passenger service and have not been replaced.
VIARail and CNRail also had significant passenger services, VIA primarily, but CNRail no longer has any and VIA is a shadow of its former self.
For freight, CP has shed all but the main routes between major cities as has CN and both have pursued mergers with American lines to increase their market share.
It’s not population density, it’s unfettered, deregulated, super-capitalism that killed land-based travel in Canada.
Greyhound source: digital.library.mcgill.ca/imag…
CP source: trains.com/trn/railroads/maps/…
Canadian Pacific in 1974
Kalmbach Publishing