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If I were a member of Amazon’s drone development team I think I’d be quietly chuckling at having got 5 years’ employment out of something that was surely at best going to be a niche operation in extremely limited situations.
I’m guessing none of us knows the railway to Labrador.
This is the location of the Schefferville airport at the end of the passenger line that goes to the Labrador Highway at Emeril
https://www.google.com/maps/search/+Emeril+Jct/@54.810258,-66.8266676,13.98z
@Aleks
It’s one of 7 Canadian wilderness passenger railways, connecting isolated towns and hamlets, fishing and hunting lodges, and mining towns through hundreds of miles of trees, bush, hills, and/or sometimes muskeg. The others are shown on this map.
Montréal – Jonquière/Chicoutimi/Lac-St-Jean
Montréal – Senneterre (branches off the Jonquière train)
Cochrane – Moosonee (the Polar Bear train) to James Bay, the southern bit of Hudson’s Bay
Winnipeg – Churchill on Hudson’s Bay
Keewatin – spur off Hudson’s Bay line, First Nations owned.
Algoma Central – northwestern Ontario
Most Canadians aren’t even aware of these trains, and few Canadian railfans have taken them. I’ve only taken a couple of them the first few hours, to visit family in farming communities.