Vancouver → Chicago

CAVAN → USCHI · 3,500 km

1 rail service between Vancouver Deltaport Rail in Canada and Chicago Corwith in United States. Fastest is 5 days; cheapest starts around $1,900.

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Through running — no gauge break

Both facilities serve Standard (1435 mm), so a wagon can run through without transshipment or a bogie change. This is the cheap case: no gauge break means no mandatory stop and no handling cost between the two ends.

Services on this corridor

Intermodal Fastest Cheapest

Canadian transcontinental corridor with an unusually high rail modal share out of the Vancouver terminals.

Operators CN CPKC
Crosses: CA → US
Transit
5 d
Departures
21/wk
Indicative
$1,900–$3,200
CO₂ vs road
−68%

Corridor facts

Distance
3,500 km
Fastest transit
5 days
Services
1
Origin gauge
Standard (1435 mm)
Destination gauge
Standard (1435 mm)
Countries crossed
2
Best emissions
20 gCO₂/tonne-km
Road benchmark
62 gCO₂/tonne-km