Rail Service Between Winnipeg and Brandon
Why should Manitoba have to miss out on the fun?
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For what it's worth, the nice old vintage CP Rail/VIA station in downtown Brandon is still standing by the CP main line even though passenger trains haven't called on it in 30 years... http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/imag...prstation1.jpg |
Darn it. Time to move these VIA threads into their proper subforums. :P
Hey, at the very least, I take this as a sign of renewed interest in passenger rail in Canada? :D |
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Just wanna repeat that two provinces side by side does not mean national. |
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Unless something unknown happening there'll never be train service back to Brandon. The TCH (with all its faults) to Winnipeg is much quicker. |
Doesn't belong in this section, it's within one single province. :P
On the other hand, "Rail Service between Maple Creek and Okotoks" would be a legitimate discussion topic here. |
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To make this work, there should be magnetic levitation HSR trains, each with a capacity of 1000 passengers, leaving from each terminus every half hour (every 15 minutes during peak times), 20 hours per day. It should run underground in both cities and on a raised track elsewhere.
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When I was a kid, I remember the Wheat City arena and the Prince Edward Hotel being on the edge of Downtown. Princess and Rosser Avenues were the place to be at the time. But with the Brandon Mall and the Keystone Centre being built on the south outskirts the death knell was started for downtown Brandon. Then they built that goddamn powercentre on the flood plain.........:hell: |
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But realistically a second large city would probably result in a Saskatchewan-like situation where instead of one larger city we'd have simply have two mid-sized ones. I have to admit I kind of like having all of our urban eggs in one basket for the most part... Winnipeg is able to sustain more big-city features and amenities than three cities of, say, 250,000, or two cities of 350,000 would. |
Manitoba is more centralized than NS. Sydney is larger than Brandon, and is a clear regional centre of a very distinctive (culturally and geographically) region.
Cape Breton Island is an economic basket case, but it probably would be even worse off without a city to anchor it. |
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