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Originally Posted by esquire
There are also many isolated communities on the Winnipeg-Capreol segment of the route, those would have presumably had to have been covered somehow if The Canadian had used CP tracks instead.
Although I suppose it wouldn't have been much different than the current arrangement where the communities on the CP line from Sudbury-White River are serviced by RDCs... they could have operated a RDC on a two day run, stopping overnight halfway, say in Sioux Lookout? Armstrong? Hornepayne? and then carrying on the next day.
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That the thing. The train from Sudbury to White River is scheduled to take about 8 hours, which makes it a reasonable day trip (there was only a short stretch of towns that don't have roads). The northern route is much more isolated and much longer. As a result it would need to be done over 2 days, and there is no good city to overnight halfway, so an overnight train makes more sense.
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