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Railway Technical Info - Canada

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General Info

Many of the "heavy rail" passenger operators listed below, both national and local, are publicly-owned organisations, whose trains in most cases run on the tracks of private companies (mostly CN and CP) - this situation is indicated by the comment "train operator" below. These private companies do not themselves usually provide passenger services. Some relatively short sections of line are owned by certain passenger operators, often where they would otherwise have been abandoned by the previous owner. Line ownership can be identified from the Railway Association of Canada's Route Maps.

National

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
VIA Rail	heavy rail	standard	?	none	train operator

Regional

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Quebec, North Shore & Labrador	heavy rail	standard	?	none
Ontario Northland	heavy rail	standard	?	none
Algoma Central	heavy rail	standard	?	none	CN subsidiary
White Pass & Yukon	heavy rail	3' (914mm)	?	none	international; mainly tourist operation

Montréal, QC

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
AMT: Deux Montagnes line	heavy rail	standard	?	25kV 60Hz AC overhead	train operator; formerly 3000V DC overhead
AMT: other lines	heavy rail	standard	?	none	train operator
STM	metro	Paris 'MP' type	?	750V DC third rail

Toronto, ON

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
GO Transit	heavy rail	standard	?	none	train operator
TTC metro	metro	4' 10 7/8" (1495mm)	?	? third rail
TTC trams	tram	4' 10 7/8" (1495mm)	RH, circles	? overhead	current collection is exclusively trolleypole
Scarborough Rapid Transit	metro	standard	?	(linear induction)

Vancouver, BC

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
West Coast Express	heavy rail	standard	?	none	train operator
SkyTrain: Expo and Millenium Lines	metro	standard	?	(linear induction)
SkyTrain: Canada Line	metro	standard	?	750V DC third rail

Other Systems

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Calgary, AB: CTrain	tram	standard	RH?	600V DC overhead
Edmonton, AB: Edmonton LRT	tram	standard	RH?	600V DC overhead
Ottawa, ON: O-Train	light rail	standard	?	none	train operator