Tshiuetin

The Labrador iron road with no highway beside it: twice a week from the St Lawrence at Sept-Îles to Schefferville, on the first railway in North America owned and run by First Nations.

Stations

1. 0 kmSept-Îles
2. 29 kmTellier
3. 43 kmSaumon
4. 57 kmNicman
5. 72 kmNipisso
6. 91 kmTika
7. Show 22 more stations

   1. 98 kmDoree
   2. 109 kmTonkas
   3. 117 kmBybee
   4. 127 kmPremio
   5. 143 kmCanatiche
   6. 160 kmWaco
   7. 177 kmChico
   8. 191 kmDufresne Lake
   9. 204 kmMai
   10. 219 kmÉric
   11. 237 kmLittle
   12. 247 kmSeahorse
   13. 263 kmDolliver
   14. 283 kmPitaga
   15. 297 kmOreway
   16. 308 kmDry Lake
   17. 325 kmAshuanipi
   18. 343 kmRoss Bay
   19. 362 kmEmeril
   20. 389 kmShabo
   21. 408 kmTalzie
   22. 426 kmSawbill
8. 456 kmEsker
9. 492 kmFaden
10. 524 kmMenihek
11. 538 kmAstray
12. 571 kmSchefferville

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 13055512 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 63 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 19 m from it
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

Questions and answers

How long is the Tshiuetin?

The Tshiuetin runs 575 km from Sept-Îles to Schefferville.

How long does the Tshiuetin take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 12 h for the 575 km. That is an average of 48 km/h end to end.

Who runs the Tshiuetin?

Tshiuetin Rail Transportation, with refurbished Amtrak coaches.

How old is the Tshiuetin?

The line has been in service since 2005. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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