On a somewhat related note, if anyone has KMZs of the railway-based ROWs from Calgary-Vancouver (Fraser Valley area) and is able to share them, please contact me off list. I'm hoping to avoid re-inventing the wheel and time/labor of manually creating vector lines along the known railway corridors, for a data set that already exists on somebody's desktop... On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei < jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
Answer from Allstream (aka Zayo)
A combination: Tor-Ott-Mtl N route is CP & S route is CN. From Tor-Wpg its mostly CN on the N route and the S goes thru various US routes.
So Allstream would get you out west via the more northern CN line from Toronto.
So you would need to find someone who has fibre along the CP line.
(note: Ottawa to North Bay, the tracks have been removed a couple years ago, not sure if there is any fibre left.
What is interesting is Allstream saying Tor-Ott-Mtl route is on CP. CP's transcontinental line from Montreal-Ottawa-Sudbury no longer exists. (Rigaud to Ottawa is Trans Canada Trail now). But CP still has its Smoth Falls to Montreal line. (and at the DOrion commuter train station (CP tracks) there are "do not dig" signs from Allstream.