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Whats left of our Canadian members?
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Steam is still reading I think..TW5K disappeared off the map. TW5K has done this before "disappeared off the map". Hope he "reincarnates back to the BJ" again soon with yet another clever "handle".
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CP/CN Fraser River Canyon
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I had relatives in Kamloops BC so as a kid I made a few trips with the fam from the States as a camping trip. Traveling Hiway 1 through the Fraser River Canyon from Hope to Kamloops your are going to see a dozen trains minimum on your way. Made several trips up the Fraser River Canyon in the late 70' and early 8...
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CP engineers go on strike
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I need to say something about the CP Rail engineers going on strike but I have no news links handy. Think they already got a back to work forced by the government. As you can see I know just enough about the situation to say something is going on. Steam..TW5K..where are you? Need some news.
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BNSF in Steamer Territory
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Took me a while to figure out things last summer with the BNSF empty coal trains detouring via BNSF Sumas Sub. Thought for sure they would take the CP route but no.. the SRY route was choosen. Seems the SRY track is in good shape today. This was a good video to see the SRY route to Sumas which I dint have a ment...
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Duck...
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CN train that hit a log truck on the Redditt sub (between Winnipeg MB and Sioux Lookout ON) at Sunstrum, ON (mile 38). Lead unit was the 5146 a GMDL SD40. Seeing the truck on the crossing before hitting it with the train, the engineer hit the deck below the window level and the head end brakeman ducked...
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Did you hear about the Pollock that tried to beat the train to the crossing and hit the 42nd car? This wasnt the case here but an auto crashed into a moving empty coal train near Abbottsford BC. Interesting to me is that the BNSF empty coal trains is using SRY tracks to get to Sumas WA and a detour down the BNS...
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Not much new in Canuckistan?
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Not so say BJ.com reporters who follow everything* broadcast from "The Great White (Eternally) Frozen North" Also known as Canada. For your enlightenment: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/Latest+Broadcast/ID/2489555077/ *(BJ.com does no...
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Big news for CN and CP
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Yep, the guvmint has stpepped up and told the Canadian bigs ta "Get this shit moving. Now!" Finally the Feds have weighed in and told the heads of both Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific ta get the agriculture sector products ta port, where it can be shipped ta buyers! [url]http://ww...
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More Bang For the Fuel Budget Bucks !
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http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/mechanical/locomotives/westport-delivers-first-lng-tender-to-emd.html
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A year later and 'Hillbilly" Harrison ain't done yet!
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Yep. He's still the boss, and still pisses a lotta CP workers off. He's slashed labo... Labour costs by laying off, firings, forcible retirements, and transfers... Shut down yards, slashed locomotive fleets, returned leased cars and locos both... And yet, and yet... Ya gotta read this article. Al...
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Yay Canada!
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Hillbilly is pissed off!
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And he thinks the government in Ottawa really doesn't understand his railroad. In this little article he sounds positively Clintonesque, redefining the English language... Then again Hunter speaks nary a word of French! Canadian Pacific Expresses Extreme Disappointment with Canadian Gover...
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Defunct? Possibly. Two of their leased Geeps are sitting in Balmer Yard in a string of cars. Looked 'em up and found that they were a branch line in BC, spun off by CN. Maybe 140+/- miles, serving a couple lumber mills.
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CN train derailment in Edmundston, N.B.5 cars derailed, 1 carrying flammable gas, official says, but no injuries, leakage reportedThe Canadian Press Posted: Jan 27, 2014 2:25 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 27, 2014 7:56 AM ETA CN train has derailed in Edmundston, N. B., Sunday night. It is the second tim...
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9 CP train cars carrying coal derail in Burnaby, B.C.
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Its taken me 3 days to figure out the severeity of the derailment and "add coal spilling into a waterway" as the next big thing to worry the population. Well "coal juice" isnt something you want in a creek/river/ lake for sure. This is appears to be a CN/CP accident well north of th...
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CP is a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen.
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The stock is running to all time highs, trading at $157 a share and putting a market capitalization of 30 times earnings on a business that might get to $6.6 billion of revenue next year if everything goes right. Nope, that revenue is not from software or services with a 90% gross margin, it is from a rail...
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13 cars jump the tracks as CN train derails in Alberta
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Another major derailment the CN mainline west of Edmonton in a week. Thats how MIR works. This was not an oil train or a coal train that derailed thank gawd but just a manifest train and one tankcar in the mix. Derailments can happen in the middle of nowhere especially in Canada. 13 cars jump the tracks...
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CN rail strike, lockout a possibility .
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CN rail strike, lockout a possibility as labour talks break down Labour negotiations between CN and the Teamsters union representing workers at the country's largest railway have broken down, and union leaders are warning that a strike or lockout could occur before the end of October.The wo...
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Allegations of criminal conduct against CN
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CN facing allegations it engaged in criminal conduct and fired employee over whistleblowing: US court documentsSource: Jorge Barrera and Kenneth Jackson - APTN National NewsCanadian National Railway was allegedly engaged in criminal conduct by defrauding shareholders and U.S. federal regu...
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More woes for CN Rail...
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Aside from the possibility of a strike, there's been a derailment in Western Alberta, which involves petroleum and nat-gas tankers... Bad juju! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/cn-fuel-cars-derail-explode-west-of-edmonton-1.2126678
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Canada train wreck. WW-II...
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...don't ask how this came ta be of interest. maybe it was piqued by Snippy's report of the GG-1 crash back in the '50s. I'm not certain though. But here it is anyway. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onlanark/NewspaperClippings/Book2/NewspaperClippings13.htm It was listening ta "...
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Canadian/Canadien Thanksgiving...
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...is Monday, Oct. 14th. Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day (Canadian French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), occurring on the second Monday in October, is an annual Canadian holiday which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. On Thursday, January 31, 1957, the Parliament of C...
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Transport Canada nixes oil by rail to Churchill Port
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Manitoba pans Churchill oil port ideaChinta PuxleyWINNIPEG The Canadian Press Published Friday, Sep. 20 2013, 7:27 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Sep. 20 2013, 9:31 PM EDT The Manitoba government says a rail companys plans to start transporting oil across hundreds of kilometres of remote rail...
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Ottawa bus-train crash kills 6 in commuting horror
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Pendant ce temps au Québec déraillement de train et le feu
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Major fire after train carrying gas derails in Quebec town near Canada-US borderBy Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC NewsA train carrying gas derailed early Saturday in the middle of a town in Quebec near the U.S.-Canada border, setting off a major fire.Franklin County Sheriff's office in Maine sai...
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