Feds to spend $1.9B to replace Via Rail locomotive fleet, build plant CTV NewsFeds announce almost $2B for 45 hybrid battery-diesel Via Rail passenger locomotives CBCFederal government to spend $1.9-billion to replace Via Rail fleet, build plant The Globe and MailGovernment of Canada to announce major investment in the passenger locomotive fleet to strengthen connections across the country canada.caFeds to spend nearly $2 billion to replace Via’s long-haul fleet iPolitics