The Canadian government and VIA Rail Canada have launched a C$20 million (US$18.7 million) program to “renew and improve two key components of its nationwide locomotive and rolling stock fleet,” ...

24-month paid apprenticeship: Selected candidates will earn while they learn, starting September 2025. Job security and stability: Graduates of the program will have the opportunity to build a ...

The locomotive that plunged off eastbound tracks, hitting one of several industrial buildings and killing the three engineers was one of many that were overhauled, a VIA Rail official said. It was ...

VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) has officially initiated the Requests for Qualification (RFQ) process for the procurement of locomotives and railcars intended to replace its Long-Distance, Regional, and ...

Via Rail's fleet of F40 locomotives will be rebuiltby CAD Railway Services under a five-year, $101.5-million contract announcedTuesday. CAD will refurbish 53 F40s starting in 2008 with the goal of ...

To avoid repeating a tragedy it’s best to know what caused it. But an investigation that took more than a year, resulting in a 77-page report into a fatal train crash on one of Canada’s busiest rail ...

TORONTO – The Via locomotive that was involved in the deadly Wednesday morning crash with an OC Transpo bus in Ottawa was likely the same involved in a crash that killed a 22-year-old man in 2011.

A deadly high-speed Via Rail train derailment in Burlington, Ont., one year ago might have been prevented had CN heeded warnings and removed or upgraded an "obsolete" crossover between tracks designed ...

Bombardier Inc. got a split decision in its accelerated push for rail contracts, scoring a victory in New Jersey and a home-turf loss the company called “astonishing.” The Montreal-based manufacturer ...