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New Brunswick Needs Trains

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Bring back the glory days of rail travel in NB! 🚂

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/09/2026
good to see new rail cars, but the real problem with via is that the feds privatized the rails and now train passengers can’t get anywhere on time. what are they going to do about that?
bnnbloomberg.ca
Ottawa spending $4.7B on new made-in-Canada Via Rail passenger cars
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is spending $4.7 billion to build 313 new passenger cars for Via Rail.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
TRAIN?!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/06/2026
more trains more trains more trains but why does it have to take so long?
globalnews.ca
Alberta eyes downtown-to-airport trains as 1st passenger rail master plan project | Globalnews.ca
The province is spending $15 million over the next three years to advance planning efforts for train connections between Edmonton and Calgary's airports and the downtown cores.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Can’t think of a better “nation-building project” to come from a “sovereign wealth fund” than #HighSpeedRail personally…. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Carney announces creation of Canada's first sovereign wealth fund | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his plan to create Canada's first sovereign wealth fund.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If we had the political will, just think of what we could accomplish in North America. We could have trains snaking the continent. It could be the easiest, most efficient, most affordable option providing good unionized jobs in manufacturing, maintenance & service, while reducing emissions.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Carney can magically make billions appear for “defence” out of thin air when that’s a priority. If trains were a priority, the money would be there.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My personal opinion is that the biggest barrier is lack of political will rather than technology or engineering.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is what I expected, but still very happy to see being discussed federally. Given current events, if ever this was to be on the table, right now is an ideal time politically.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Article is paywalled for me but here’s the link: tj.news/new-brunswic...
tj.news
Federal Liberals vote in favour of new ‘Maritime Rail Corridor’
Pitch would create passenger rail service from Saint John to Halifax, eventually expanding to Fredericton, Sydney, N.S., and PEI
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I desperately need all the details on this, immediately.
Screenshot of news headline from the Telegraph-Journal: New Brunswick / News / The Issues
Federal Liberals vote in favour of new 'Maritime
Rail Corridor'
Pitch would create passenger rail service from Saint John to Halifax, eventually expanding to Fredericton, Sydney, N.S., and Prince Edward
Island
Adam Huras
Published Apr 15, 2026 • Last updated 9 hours ago • 5
minute read
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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 04/04/2026
Of course they do. We built this country with a railroad and Canadians have been complaining about VIA for eons. Not everyone wants to fly.
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Steven Clark @thefwordnb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
On a mental health mini vavation A train is so relaxing it really is the superior way to travel.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
High speed rail in Canada is a good investment. It’s the kind of ambitious nation-building that actually makes Canada more resilient etc. No surprise, far-right Pierre Poilievre says he’d cancel it, saying it will go over budget. Spoiler—it will. Just like EVERY car highway does. But he likes those.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What our elected leaders don’t seem to understand is that public transportation IS sovereignty!! Public housing is sovereignty Affordable essentials is sovereignty When we have our needs met we are more resilient & less vulnerable to extremism.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
👏👏👏 the biggest barrier is political will! We have the wealth and resources to implement these projects everywhere!
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The future of transportation is electric rail. Whether our elected officials begin the infrastructure building process a hundred years ago or in the future, the math doesn’t change. Electric rail is the most economical & efficient way to transport people long distance from one place to another.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/03/2026
Nation almost excited to see how bad Via Rail can get after Carney’s spending cuts (podcast)
thebeaverton.com
Nation almost excited to see how bad Via Rail can get after Carney's spending cuts
“It’s already running on old chewing gum and hope, so are we losing the chewing gum or the hope?” Luke and the Panel (Ian MacIntyre, Clare Blackwood and special guest Andrew Ivimey) recap Poilievre’s ...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/03/2026
We deserve better trains
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AlexSolak @alexsolak.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
What if Trump crippling regional airlines in the US is the push thru finally need to get a modern rail system?
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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 16/11/2025
Well into my eighth hour on this @viarailcanada.bsky.social train (which is outside Markham and not moving) from Ottawa to Toronto and wondering if we might be able to get regular-speed rail in this country.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It will never not be upsetting to me that New Brunswick had better intercity public transportation half a century ago than today. Our leaders should be ashamed & mortified.
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Spooky rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 18/10/2025
Women don't care about the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing; and it's a 1941 North Shore Electroliner by Saint Louis Car Company.
A streamlined electric train painted turquoise and salmon under catenary with electric high tension lines visible
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Can’t wait to find out how many high speed rail projects will be funded out of today’s budget bill that includes “generational investments” in federal infrastructure! 🤡 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Federal budget expected to chart a course to meet NATO's 5% spending target | CBC News
What will rearming the Canadian military look like? We could get a clearer in Tuesday's federal budget. At least one defence expert says the Liberal government has made a lot of vague promises and the...
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Martin Farley 🔰 @martinfarley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Public transport investment usually has a return on investment of 4:1 (for every £1 invested, the economy grows by £4), but done well it can do even better than that Great example here
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“This a story about an enjoyable train journey... And a testament to just how good train travel can be, even in a country that has done everything possible to cripple it.” Big oof youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc?...
youtu.be
This Train Just Keeps Getting Worse 😢 (VIA Rail "The Ocean")
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
TRAINS
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It used to be that you could buy an old clunker & run it into the ground. That model is rapidly disappearing with cars that break more easily with repairs more costly than ever, slowly pushing us towards becoming lifelong leasers.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of viable public transit paired with astronomical car pricing. Car ownership is the new feudalism, designed to keep us in predatory debt traps as lifelong renters and I am not here for it.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In Canada, many rail networks have been actively demolished. Where people used to be able to take trains to many small towns across the country, we now have “railway pubs” and “railway trails” where stations & tracks **used** to be 😒😒😒
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Once more for the people in the back: 📢 train networks are nation-building!! Instead of pipelines, carney should be focusing on high speed rail networks for people & goods
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Btw do you have maps/citations for these routes? I’ve reached out to the NB Railway Museum & NB Museum several times for a map/info about all historic passenger rail routes in NB but nobody ever responds. 😒
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It’s not fair!!! Blows my mind how we could possibly have better inter-city AND intra-city public transit a hundred years ago than today!
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Rob Hoadley @robhoadley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
About a hundred or so years ago, people from Fredericton commuted to Marysville via train to work at the cotton mill, and vice versa. The train took fifteen minutes, from a station near where the Coffee Mill is now, to a station near where the apartments on Brunswick Street back onto the trail.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Link to full text: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Nova Scotia seeking to study potential of passenger rail in Halifax area | CBC News
The study of passenger rail is part of a broader effort to address the transportation challenges and traffic congestion that are plaguing the province’s capital region.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
👀 now do saint john!
Screenshot of CBC headline with header image of a metro: “Nova Scotia seeking to study potential of passenger rail in Halifax area
Study part of regional transportation plan released earlier this month
Posted: August 19, 2025 2:15 PM ADT
Last Updated: 3 hours ago
Taryn Grant, CBC News”
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders?
canadiandimension.com
Why we need to (re)nationalize Air Canada
It would be tempting to base an argument in favour of nationalizing Air Canada solely off its poor performance over the course of the last few weeks, but in truth the problems experienced by air trave...
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 25/07/2025
1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea
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lexande @lexande.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea
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Dave Shoots Books @daveshootsbooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This 1979 #book about #streetcars in #SaintJohn includes an account of the 1914 #strike. Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $25. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #NewBrunswick #labour #transit #transportation
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I think it's very cool that the Ocean has been running for this long. It's great that the station has been refurbished. Now. About the frequency and reliability issues that plague it. globalnews.ca/video/112888...
globalnews.ca
VIA Rail celebrates more than 120 years of the ‘Ocean Line’ | Watch News Videos Online
Watch VIA Rail celebrates more than 120 years of the ‘Ocean Line’ Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?
Cartoon of road jammed with cars between single detached homes in suburban, car-dependent sprawl.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Never forget what they took from us
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Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I literally cannot emphasize enough how much a high-speed and high-density train system would improve everyone’s quality of life in this country.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Can you imagine if Canada’s small towns had train service like this? Hop on for a little day trip and hike, catch the train back at sunset. We could have this if we invested in rail.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Intercity public transit will forever be the hill I die on!!!
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Dannie G @dgodin1234.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I know we don't have the population base for this. But I'm jealous. I just looked and I can get a $10 return train or bus ticket Toronto to Niagara Falls. Summer bus service. Freddy/SJ to Saint Andrews? Miramichi/Moncton to Fundy? etc etc. I know, compare millions of people to tens of thousands.
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New Brunswick Needs Trains @nbneedstrains.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Saint John Mystery Guild asking all the hard-hitting questions that locals want to know!!
Screenshot of Facebook post from Saint John mystery guild: “Alexander Stone
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At some point in the near future, the Saint John Mystery Guild is going to tackle the 'Electric Trolley Cover-Up' of Saint John as well, which I believe to be related to some of the tunnels we're investigating.
But here is a teaser post...
Yet another major piece of infrastructure and Saint John history built by our ancestors and sold off to private industry, only to be destroyed. Why did/do the officials of Saint John destroy (or allow to be destroyed) and cover up much of its 'real' history?
Any information you have on the Trolley's of Saint John, please share it here!”Saint John mystery guild logo, shaped like a circular woven badge featuring a question mark with wings in the centre Screenshot of cbc news article with a photograph of rusty trolley tracks unearthed in Saint John : =
NEWS
New Brunswick
Century-old streetcar rails unearthed in Saint John
Discovered by construction crews on Rothesay Avenue
Posted: Aug 03, 2012 8:42 AM ADT | Last Updated: August 3, 2012
Construction workers in Saint John unearthed century-old streetcar tracks on Rothesay Avenue. (CBC)
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