Government of Canada to announce major investment in the passenger locomotive fleet to strengthen connections across the country

The Government of Canada announced a $1.95 billion investment to renew VIA Rail’s long-distance, regional, and remote locomotive fleet, including bringing passenger locomotive assembly back to Canada for the first time in decades. The package includes $1.6 billion for assembling up to 36 locomotives by Stadler in Canada and $357 million to build a new…

The article reports that the federal government announced nearly $2 billion to modernize Via Rail’s fleet with 45 hybrid battery-diesel passenger locomotives, with $1.6 billion for locomotive construction and $357 million for a new assembly and maintenance facility in Montréal. It notes that 36 of the locomotives will be built in Canada, marking the…

Unifor welcomes an almost $2 billion government-backed investment in public passenger rail, including 45 new locomotives built by Stadler with final assembly in Canada and a new VIA Rail assembly and maintenance facility in Montréal. The project, funded from Budget 2024, is expected to create about 1,200 jobs and aims to strengthen Canadian manufacturing…