Classic route
Sudbury–White River
Sudbury → White River · Canada
Sudbury–White River in pictures
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- Distance
- 484 km
- Fastest time
- 9 h
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- VIA Rail
- Train
- Budd RDC railcars
- Countries
- Canada
- In service since
- 1885
- Runs
- 3× weekly each direction
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Canada’s last Budd RDC mainline train will flag-stop anywhere along 484 km of roadless Canadian Shield.
Train 185 is the last mainline holdout of the classic Budd Rail Diesel Car, rattling three times a week across 484 km of lake-strewn Canadian Shield on the CPKC transcontinental. It stops on request at any milepost, unloading canoes for the Spanish River, supplies for fly-in-quality fishing camps and cottagers whose cabins sit fifty kilometres from the nearest road. Biscotasing, midway, was Grey Owl’s village; White River, at the end, sold the world the bear cub that became Winnie-the-Pooh.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6675171 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 89 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 23 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
Along the way
- Spanish River canoe country
- Biscotasing, Grey Owl’s village
- Chapleau and its boreal game preserve
- Franz flag stop
- White River, Winnie-the-Pooh’s hometown
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