{"id":835510,"date":"2026-07-30T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:37:25","slug":"federal-government-announces-plan-to-build-new-via-rail-locomotives-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835510\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government announces plan to build new Via Rail locomotives in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tVia Rail is about to push forward into the next phase of its modernization.<br \/>\nThe federal government has announced plans to fund the production of dozens of new locomotives, most of which will be assembled in Montreal.<br \/>\nAs Phil Carpenter reports, some observers note that despite the welcome upgrades, more thought needs to be put into how rail service is delivered in Canada.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Rail is about to push forward into the next phase of its modernization. The federal government has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[6980,49,48,124,291501,2338,15225,167926,33928,2533,200742],"class_list":["post-835510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-announcement","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jobs","tag-locomotives","tag-montreal","tag-rail","tag-short-clip","tag-train","tag-upgrade","tag-via"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}