Canadian Railways Operations

[selector]

Dozens, literally. Edmonton, Yukon & Pacific, Calgary and Edmonton, Edmonton and Slave Lake RR, Alberta Midland, Alberta & Great Waterways, the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia/Central Canada Railway, Pacific Great Eastern, Lacombe and North-Western, the Kettle Valley Railway, the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern, the Southern Okanagan RR Co., the Peace & Nass River Railway Co., and my source goes on to list another 100 or so, all west of Winnipeg.

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ShaunCN

Ontario northalnd still going, Algoma Central, lots of shortlines. VIA Rail..... heck we even got the CSX canada division here. lots of others too.

I thought I understood that the Algoma Central was gone. A tourist train operator in N.W. Iowa has some old,beat AC passenger cars

[TH&B]

Go back to the National Transcontinental Railway and the Intercolonial Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific.

[jchnhtfd]

Oh dear -- my references are at home. There's a dozen or so just in southern Ontario, depending on how far back you go... I'll get back on this.

[mloik]

Current shortlines include among others Goderich-Exeter Railway, Southern Ontario Railway, and Ottawa Valley Railway (all part of RailAmerica's system). Then there's also Barrie-Collingwood, which if I understand correctly, rose out of the ashes of a need for rail service years after abandonment of "non-profit sectors" (meaning abandonment of rail service to real, live, small towns where people actually live and work) by CN and CP.

Of course, these are only a small slice of current rail operations in Ontario (and not fallen flags), so it would be great for this thread to continue with input from others throughout Canada.

Glad to see that Hockey Night in Canada will be back this year, eh?

Michael

[trainboyH16-44]

When did that happen?
Matt

[BR60103]

Look for the book "Lines of Country", came out about 5 years ago. An historic atlas of Canadian rail lines, with all the stretches of track marked showing original owner and subsequent owners up to abandonment.
Just listing all the local lines would take pages. CN was made from Grand Trunk, Canadian Northern, Canadian Government, Great Western, and those were made from smaller lines.
The one I mourn is the Ontario and Quebec, which was leased and stripped by CPR and ended up with no track and no rolling stock, just a shell.

[trainboyH16-44]

Whoops, beaten! ShaunCN, I'm pretty sure that the ACR was bought out by the WC a few years back, a couple years before they got taken by CN.
There are also a bunch of shortlines in the northern western provinces, and the eastern provinces.
Matthew

[trainboyH16-44]

There was the Algoma Central, taken over by the WC, now CN, the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo, joint owned by CP and NYC, now CP, they had the first GMD london diesel, a GP7, the Northern Alberta Railways, owned by CP and CN, then CP sold it's shares, The Canadian National was formed from the fruitless competition of the Grand Trunk Western and the Canadian Northern railways, they were forced to merge. There were quite a few in the early days that I don't know, and probably a few more modern ones.
One railway that exists today is the Ontario Northland, which CN tried to buy in 2002, or close to then. It is the only remaining government owned railway since CN has been privatized, and BC Rail bought by CN. Stupid CN....
Matthew

[ShaunCN]

Ontario northalnd still going, Algoma Central, lots of shortlines. VIA Rail..... heck we even got the CSX canada division here. lots of others too.

[Murphy Siding]

Today, I saw a BC Rail car here in town. BC Rail would definately qualify as a fallen flag. Like most dumb Americans, I picture Canada as only having two railroads,CN & CP. What can you guys up north tell us about other Canadian railroads, and Canadian fallen flags?

Thanks-Eh! (edited, once it was pointed out that Canadians don't say Aye!-I guess that's for pirates?[oX)])