[7] By 2006, passenger rail service was considered by the Canadian government to be the only surface transportation mode available to and from Schefferville.

[7] In 2004, Tshiuetin Rail was issued a certificate of fitness by the Canadian Transportation Agency, before the railroad acquired the Menihek Subdivision.

The company will also provide passenger rail service on the remaining QNSX-owned line running from the port of Sept-Îles to Emeril Jct (and on to Schefferville).

[7] The agreement between IOC and the three First Nations who own Tshiuetin Rail has resulted in the first aboriginal ownership of a railway line in Canada.

[11] On July 6, 2020, Chloë Ellingson of the New York Times published an extensive pictorial essay on the railway.