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Originally Posted by ac888yow
For the speed curious, I'm on a via train as we speak and the max speed clocked using my phone is 153 kph. Average is currently about 110.
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On the Ottawa-Kingston route they generally max out in the low 160s on the best sections at times. It does seem to depend on the trip though. Some trips I've never seen anything higher than 150, others I see as high as 165 as the max.
VIA's main issue is that on the Kingston Subdivision (the main line track from Toronto to Montreal), if there's a CN train ahead of them, they can't go faster than it (otherwise they catch up and collide!) and freight trains generally go around 100-120. Some parts of this line have triple track segments. On these, VIA trains typically do 150+. There's an extended section of triple track around Kingston/Gananoque that is where VIA hits its best speeds. A few kilometres east of Kingston, there's a section where the tracks run parallel to the 401, close enough that you can easily see all the cars on the highway out the window... and the trains are clearly going faster.
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Originally Posted by Aylmer
Using my phone, I once measured 202km/h for a short stretch somewhere between Vaudreuil and the border. It might have been an error since I've not known VIA trains to even be able to attain that speed at all.
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That has to be inaccurate. Not only is VIA's equipment not capable of attaining that speed, no track anywhere in Canada has a civil speed limit that high.