Classic route
Tshiuetin
Sept-Îles → Schefferville · Canada
- Distance
- 575 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 12 h
- Average speed
- 48 km/h
- Operator
- Tshiuetin Rail Transportation
- Train
- Refurbished Amtrak coaches
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 2005
- Riders per year
- ≈ 12k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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