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Bobblehead · 07-24-2009, 02:07 PM

VIA was spun off of CN's passenger service, but still run on CN tracks. CN goes through Edmonton, CP runs through Calgary.

I believe the saying for trains going through the mountains is "CN has the grades but CP has the scenery".

Edit: and just to add, EDM was the preferred route for the original trans-Canada railway, but it was feared if they ran it that far north the US would claim the lower prairies, so the line was planned for through Calgary (well, Calgary didn't exist at the time) even before Rogers discovered the pass named after him.

07-24-2009, 02:07 PM	#5
Bobblehead Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: in your blind spot. Exp:	VIA was spun off of CN's passenger service, but still run on CN tracks. CN goes through Edmonton, CP runs through Calgary. I believe the saying for trains going through the mountains is "CN has the grades but CP has the scenery". Edit: and just to add, EDM was the preferred route for the original trans-Canada railway, but it was feared if they ran it that far north the US would claim the lower prairies, so the line was planned for through Calgary (well, Calgary didn't exist at the time) even before Rogers discovered the pass named after him. __________________ "The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence." —Bill Clinton "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress "But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity" —WKRP in Cincinatti Last edited by Bobblehead; 07-24-2009 at 02:25 PM.