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The Ontario Northland Railway (reporting mark ONT) is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario. Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing areas, the railway soon became a major factor in the economic growth of the province.
A map showing the route of the Northern at its maximum extent in the late 1800s. Only the portion from Toronto to Barrie and a small section running west remain in service, while the section north of Orillia has merged with another line. The Northern Railway of Canada was a railway in the province of Ontario, Canada.
A route map of Via Rail frequencies from 2013. Via Rail operates 497 trains per week over nineteen routes. Via groups these routes into three broad categories: [1] "Rapid Intercity Travel": daytime services over the Corridor between Ontario and Quebec. The vast majority of Via's trains–429 per week–operate here.
The Canadian National Railway (CN) Bala Subdivision is a major railway line in Ontario, Canada. It runs between the provincial capital of Toronto in Southern Ontario and Capreol in Northern Ontario, where the line continues as the Ruel Subdivision. It forms part of CN's transcontinental mainline between Southern Ontario and Western Canada.
Canadian Northern Railway: Ontario Pacific Railway: NYC: 1882 1897 Ottawa and New York Railway: Ontario and Quebec Railway: CP: 1871 1998 St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway: Ontario and Rainy River Railway: CNor: 1886 1900 Canadian Northern Railway: Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway: GT: 1851 1858 Northern Railway of Canada: Oshawa Railway: GT ...
Railway construction and operation in the area preceded the Lake Erie and Northern by over fifty years. The railway boom in Canada West (the administrative predecessor to the province of Ontario) from the 1850s onward resulted in a number of east–west lines owned by competing companies: the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) lines through Galt (which became a major ...
The Algoma Central Railway (reporting mark AC) is a railway in Northern Ontario, Canada, that operates between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst. It used to have a branch line to Wawa. The area served by the railway is sparsely populated, with few roads. The railway is well known for its Agawa Canyon tour train. Until 2015, the line also provided ...
The Canadian Northern Railway [1] (CNoR) was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway. At its 1923 merger into the Canadian National Railway ( reporting mark CN ), the CNoR owned a main line between Quebec City and Vancouver via Ottawa , Winnipeg , and Edmonton .