Scenic route
Agawa Canyon Tour Train
Sault Ste. Marie → Agawa Canyon · Canada
- Distance
- 183 km
- Fastest time
- 10 h
- Average speed
- 18 km/h
- Top speed
- 64 km/h
- Operator
- Agawa Canyon Railroad (Watco)
- Train
- GP38 diesel · coaches
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1964
- Riders per year
- ≈ 30k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 10-hour day trip 114 miles north into a wilderness canyon whose blazing autumn colours inspired Canada’s Group of Seven painters.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11094105 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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