Does anyone know if there's a current rail map of Ontario?

I'm trying to see if I'm right that all E-W freight has to go through the Toronto area.

Based on my 2011 atlas, you would be incorrect. It shows a routing west from Quebec City using CN and Ontario Northland to reach northern Ontario and then Western Canada. It is not a likely routing, but it is a possible one.

According to this map of CN and other railways <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.cn.ca/en/repository/popups/maps/cn-network-map">https://www.cn.ca/en/repository/popups/ ... etwork-map</a><!-- m --> there are no routes up the OttawaValley any more, which was the historic route for both CN and CP. Looks like all east-west traffic does indeed go through Toronto. I know that's the case with passenger service. And they've only recently (last few years) been taking up the tracks in the valley.


Andrew

MasonJar Wrote:According to this map of CN and other railways

There are plenty of rail lines from other operators omitted from that map.

Yes, I saw that after. If you go to their "interactive map" you can see a lot more secondary lines.

Andrew

Still, there's nothing I can see between Sudbury and Montreal that avoids Toronto.

Part of this is thinking about certain cargoes going through.

The other part is politicians who think they can run commuter service on all those lines.

Don't forget Canadian Pacific can send traffic on the former Delaware & Hudson through the U.S., too.