Scenic route
Skeena
Jasper → Prince Rupert · Canada
- Distance
- 1,160 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 32 h
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- VIA Rail
- Train
- Budd stainless-steel cars
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1914
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Two daylight days from the Rockies to the Pacific. Mount Robson, totem-pole country at Hazelton and the Skeena’s misty canyons, overnighting in Prince George.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7493247 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 119 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 32 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of VIA Rail
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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