Here's my HIGH SPEED newsletter on the first leg of the REM, on why this is such an important project for Montreal and indeed North America:

www.highspeed.blog/the-end-of-t...

Nice detail in Edouard-Montpetit REM station: natural rock walls. The platforms are 73 metres below the street—height of a 20 storey building. The rock is gabbro, a very hard igneous rock. 100,000 kg of explosives were used to build the station.

You can get from downtown Montreal to this view in about 20 minutes. Crossing the Rivière-des-Prairies on a southbound REM.

Here we are entering the Tunnel Mont-Royal (southbound). At 5 km, the 3rd longest in Canada. Built by Canadian Northern in WWI, taken over by CN. Discovery of hundred year old explosives delayed construction a bit…

...in my latest HIGH SPEED dispatch.

www.highspeed.blog/life-after-c...

Here's my HIGH SPEED newsletter on the first leg of the REM, on why this is such an important project for Montreal and indeed North America:

www.highspeed.blog/the-end-of-t...

Nice detail in Edouard-Montpetit REM station: natural rock walls. The platforms are 73 metres below the street—height of a 20 storey building. The rock is gabbro, a very hard igneous rock. 100,000 kg of explosives were used to build the station.

You can get from downtown Montreal to this view in about 20 minutes. Crossing the Rivière-des-Prairies on a southbound REM.

Here we are entering the Tunnel Mont-Royal (southbound). At 5 km, the 3rd longest in Canada. Built by Canadian Northern in WWI, taken over by CN. Discovery of hundred year old explosives delayed construction a bit…