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Encyclopedia: VIA Rail

VIA Rail Canada (also referred to as VIA Rail and VIA; pronounced 'vee-ah') is an independent Crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail services in Canada.

VIA Rail operates 480 trains in eight Canadian provinces (all except Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island) over a network of 14,000 kilometres (8,700 mi) of track spanning the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. VIA Rail carries approximately 4 million passengers annually.^[1] It sees the majority of its traffic between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City, Quebec, commonly known as The Corridor.

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How to say "VIA Rail" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	VIA鉄道
	(German)	VIA Rail Canada
	(French)	Via Rail Canada

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Maple Leaf

The Maple Leaf is a train operated jointly by VIA Rail and Amtrak from New York (Pennsylvania Station) to Toronto via the New York state cities of Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. The train travels during the day and takes approximately 12 hours for the 533 mile (858 km) journey. Around...

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Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway

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GE Genesis

than 200 of them on its routes. VIA Rail in Canada is also a major customer. Three major models... leased) 1992-1993) P32AC-DM (dual-mode) 700-717 (1995/1998) VIA Rail P42 900-920 (2001-2002) Metro... could either run its electric motors on power from the onboard diesel engine or from a third rail...

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Crown corporation

Railway, which in turn spun-off the CBC, VIA Rail, Air Canada, and Marine Atlantic. Examples of... Development Corporation Export Development Canada Farm Credit Canada Marine Atlantic VIA Rail Examples...

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Myriam Bédard

disclosed that she had been pushed from her marketing department job at Via Rail in 2002 shortly... firings a few days later of Via Rail chairperson Jean Pelletier and president Marc LeFrançois. However...

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Liberal Party of Canada sponsorship scandal

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Jean Pelletier

former head of VIA Rail. An important member and a leading organizer of the Liberal Party of Canada... head of VIA Rail, a Crown corporation. Pelletier was a life long train aficionado and the... improve VIA's service. Pelletier was also made an officer of the Order of Canada. On March 1, 2004...

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1978 in Canada

instituted Under the new immigration act homosexuals are no longer an inadmissable class VIA Rail is...

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David Collenette

for VIA Rail since cuts imposed in 1981, 1990, and 1994. Collenette was one of Jean Chretien's...

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Doug Young

goods via rail, and privatized Canadian National Railways. In January 1996 he became Minister of...

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