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Canada's 300-Kilometer-an-Hour High-Speed Rail Project Gets Another Shot in the Arm

SNCF Voyageurs, France's passenger rail operator, which has just started running Alstom TGV-M trainsets, is part of the consortium that will build Canada's high-speed rail line; shovels could be in the ground in four years.

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