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AMT F59PHI 1325 coasts through the Montreal West, Quebec, station with a train from Blainville bound for Windsor Station in downtown Montreal on November 24, 2000. John Godfrey AMT, an acronym for Agence Métropolitaine de Transport (Metropolitan Transportation Agency), coordinates Montreal’s commuter rail service, a 112-mile system comprised of five lines and 45 stations. The […]
West Coast Express train laying over in downtown Vancouver, B.C., in 1999. John Godfrey West Coast Express commuter trains operate on a 40-mile segment of Canadian Pacific’s transcontinental main line between Mission City and Vancouver’s Waterfront Station, serving 8 stations. The name for the commuter operation was selected by a panel of judges from over […]
Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian Pacific, like its American counterpart Union Pacific, has the “right” name, one that endures, though CP is younger, having been incorporated in 1881 to build from near North Bay, Ontario, to the Pacific Coast at what is now Vancouver, B.C. Post-World War II subsidiaries that maintained some identity included Esquimalt & […]
