Sudbury–White River

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmSudbury
2. 11 kmAzilda
3. 19 kmChelmsford
4. 27 kmLarchwood
5. 37 kmLevack
6. 54 kmCartier
7. Show 25 more stations

   1. 66 kmBenny
   2. 71 kmStralak
   3. 85 kmPogamasing
   4. 89 kmSheahan
   5. 103 kmForks
   6. 111 kmMetagama
   7. 118 kmSinker
   8. 139 kmBiscotasing
   9. 149 kmRoberts
   10. 166 kmRamsey
   11. 190 kmWoman River
   12. 207 kmSultan
   13. 224 kmKormak
   14. 227 kmKinogama
   15. 246 kmNemegos
   16. 260 kmDevon
   17. 270 kmChapleau
   18. 284 kmEsher
   19. 300 kmMusk
   20. 305 kmNicholson
   21. 327 kmBolkow
   22. 340 kmDalton
   23. 361 kmMissanabie
   24. 378 kmLochalsh
   25. 399 kmFranz
8. 409 kmSwanson
9. 428 kmGirdwood
10. 443 kmAmyot
11. 460 kmO'Brien
12. 475 kmWhite River

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

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

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 VIA Rail Canada: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of Sudbury–White River
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Sudbury–White River?

The Sudbury–White River runs 484 km from Sudbury to White River.

How long does the Sudbury–White River take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 9 h for the 484 km. That is an average of 54 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 100 km/h.

Who runs the Sudbury–White River?

VIA Rail, with Budd RDC railcars.

How old is the Sudbury–White River?

The line has been in service since 1885. 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.

How often does the Sudbury–White River run?

3× weekly each direction.

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