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The Krink · The Krink

Well that's too bad as the Rocky Mountaineer had a pretty good thing going (join the club) . For its first few years of operation is was a Canada only in BC/AB traveling the CP/CN in "first class luxury". Then in 2016 I think started a Vancouver BC to Seattle and return on Saturdays in the Summer. Came down...

Thunderwagon5000 · Thunderwagon5000

[url]https://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/securite-safety/rail/2019/r19c0015/r19c0015-617-0...

The Krink · The Krink

Not just your every day derailment but the feared "oil train derailment". 31 cars derailed atleast 21 on fire and a huge plume of smoke that can be seen for miles in vast emptiness of SK. Its still ongoing but it looks like if you were to have an oil train derailment/fireball situation this location woul...

The Krink · The Krink

Via Woes and CN Woes and CP Woes in Beautiful British Columbia. This is what happens during a "pineapple express". Via Woes in British Columbia (images 1,125k)

steam300 · steam300

https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/episodes/2019-2020/runaway-train-investigating-a-fatal-cp-rail-crash

The Krink · The Krink

Need some different power for sure but the rest of train OK. VIA Derailment west of Portage la Prairie

The Krink · The Krink

We all hate to hear of/see oil train derailments no matter where they happen. SK is pretty much all wide open...nothing. One home needed to evacuate. Still don't know the cause and cant blame MIR. CP crude oil derailment, fire in SK

The Krink · The Krink

CN strike ending

The Krink · The Krink

Its railroad life if you have a long career hoping you can manage to keep working after the next round of layoffs that will come...and they will come. CN has some turbulence ahead with layoffs.... Major layoffs at CN and then CN (Canada) conductors ready to strike in days. CN Conductors serve strik...

Uke · Uke

Yep. It's not as if they needed to, because they already had trackage rights over it. Now they'll hafta maintain it tu! https://www.railwaygazette.com/freight/cn-to-acquire-massena-line-from-csx/54526.article In other words it's a win-win for HEFRAIL. "Cause they get the mo...

The Krink · The Krink

Good thing I got plenty of Rocky Mountaineer pictures last couple summers as the Vancouver BC to Seattle run having a hard time selling tickets in 2019. Was just thinking today that I haven't heard the Saturday BNSF airwaves talking to the Rocky Mountaineer all summer. There is a reason. Another prob...

The Krink · The Krink

Just saw this tidbit on TO about grain trains to Churchhill MB after several years of shutdown. The Russians are going crazy building ports in their northern most places to take advantage of climate change and the Arctic Ocean is going to be navigable more of the year. Churchill in a good location for m...

Uke · Uke

birthday...https://www.progressiverailroading.com/canadian_national/news/CN-marks-100th-year-in-business--57777 I thought CP was the older of the two Canuckistan transcons. I stand corrected. Again.

The Krink · The Krink

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,4748266

Calvin · Calvin

Pretty much way it rolled out on CSX, placed here so our friends at BNSF, UP and NS can have a look..

Thunderwagon5000 · Thunderwagon5000

https://globalnews.ca/news/4922096/train-derailment-field-b-c/

The Krink · The Krink

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/crews-respond-to-cp-train-derailment-in-ajax-1.4265702

The Krink · The Krink

[url]https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dashboard-video-captures-moment-52-car-train-derails-near-saskatoon-...

The Krink · The Krink

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,4703164

The Krink · The Krink

The CP really out did themselves for 2018 as I was really impressed with the "Holiday Train". This train is moving westward currently having just left Chicago and probly travel the CP transcon to Vancouver BC with many stops along the way. This train will be video'd and photographed hundreds of times...

The Krink · The Krink

The Canadian Pacific Transcon Vancouver BC to Montreal goes through Revelstoke BC. Revelstoke a huge CP railroad town and division point and crew change point. Notice watching the webcam today that they get their crew change done in 3-5 minutes as its blocking a few crossings in town. Think trains...

Uke · Uke

But this might just be more important. Depending... https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45788532 Weed. Legalized or not, lotsa people gonna smoke anyway. Some habits die hard. And if they figure out how ta tax the shit, who knows? Legal marijuana could bring in more money than crude...

Thunderwagon5000 · Thunderwagon5000

We talked to a railway engineer about about endless miles of track, plowing through wildlife, and how most people don't even think that job exists anymore.Adam Landry has worked the rails for over a decade, and logged enough miles to circle the earth 10 times. Currently a locomotive engineer with a n...

Thunderwagon5000 · Thunderwagon5000

https://twitter.com/logancadue/status/970051598037798912/video/1

Uke · Uke

But this IS big news if ya live way up in The Great White (almost always) Frozen North. Yep! Surely our old pals steamer, and TW-5K have noticed strange phenomena with climatic conditions of late, you betcha! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/insurers-extreme-weather-canada-1.4497456

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	Rocky Mountaineer scraps 2020 season, Don't ask for your money back (Preview) Well that's too bad as the Rocky Mountaineer had a pretty good thing going (join the club) . For its first few years of operation is was a Canada only in BC/AB traveling the CP/CN in "first class luxury". Then in 2016 I think started a Vancouver BC to Seattle and return on Saturdays in the Summer. Came down...	The Krink	0	23	1:30 AM, 07/23/20 by The Krink
	No. 1 brake test advisory (Preview) [url]https://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/securite-safety/rail/2019/r19c0015/r19c0015-617-0...	Thunderwagon5000	2	112	3:37 PM, 05/13/20 by Calvin
	CP Rail derailment in Saskatchewan (Preview) Not just your every day derailment but the feared "oil train derailment". 31 cars derailed atleast 21 on fire and a huge plume of smoke that can be seen for miles in vast emptiness of SK. Its still ongoing but it looks like if you were to have an oil train derailment/fireball situation this location woul...	The Krink	0	262	2:29 AM, 02/07/20 by The Krink
	Via Woes in British Columbia (Preview) Via Woes and CN Woes and CP Woes in Beautiful British Columbia. This is what happens during a "pineapple express". Via Woes in British Columbia (images 1,125k)	The Krink	0	190	2:36 AM, 02/03/20 by The Krink
	Worth watching (Preview) https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/episodes/2019-2020/runaway-train-investigating-a-fatal-cp-rail-crash	steam300	1	177	7:40 AM, 01/29/20 by FMB
	VIA Derailment west of Portage la Prairie (Preview) Need some different power for sure but the rest of train OK. VIA Derailment west of Portage la Prairie	The Krink	0	199	1:49 AM, 01/01/20 by The Krink
	CP crude oil derailment, fire in SK (Preview) We all hate to hear of/see oil train derailments no matter where they happen. SK is pretty much all wide open...nothing. One home needed to evacuate. Still don't know the cause and cant blame MIR. CP crude oil derailment, fire in SK	The Krink	0	230	2:05 AM, 12/10/19 by The Krink
	CN strike ending (Preview) CN strike ending	The Krink	0	224	2:19 AM, 11/27/19 by The Krink
	CN layoff notices and CN conductors strike looming (Preview) Its railroad life if you have a long career hoping you can manage to keep working after the next round of layoffs that will come...and they will come. CN has some turbulence ahead with layoffs.... Major layoffs at CN and then CN (Canada) conductors ready to strike in days. CN Conductors serve strik...	The Krink	4	245	9:59 AM, 11/21/19 by Calvin
	CN buys one of HEFRAIL's lines (Preview) Yep. It's not as if they needed to, because they already had trackage rights over it. Now they'll hafta maintain it tu! https://www.railwaygazette.com/freight/cn-to-acquire-massena-line-from-csx/54526.article In other words it's a win-win for HEFRAIL. "Cause they get the mo...	Uke	1	239	8:55 PM, 09/16/19 by Uke
	Rocky Mountaineer cancellations (Preview) Good thing I got plenty of Rocky Mountaineer pictures last couple summers as the Vancouver BC to Seattle run having a hard time selling tickets in 2019. Was just thinking today that I haven't heard the Saturday BNSF airwaves talking to the Rocky Mountaineer all summer. There is a reason. Another prob...	The Krink	0	198	1:14 AM, 07/30/19 by The Krink
	Grain trains to Churchill...again. (Preview) Just saw this tidbit on TO about grain trains to Churchhill MB after several years of shutdown. The Russians are going crazy building ports in their northern most places to take advantage of climate change and the Arctic Ocean is going to be navigable more of the year. Churchill in a good location for m...	The Krink	4	325	9:37 AM, 07/25/19 by Freddie Krueger
	Canuckistan National celebrates (Preview) birthday...https://www.progressiverailroading.com/canadian_national/news/CN-marks-100th-year-in-business--57777 I thought CP was the older of the two Canuckistan transcons. I stand corrected. Again.	Uke	1	317	10:32 AM, 06/12/19 by Uke
	Demoralized CP employees start a pool with derailment predictions (Preview) https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,4748266	The Krink	13	630	8:39 AM, 03/14/19 by Freddie Krueger
	PSR at CP explained in laymans language (Preview) Pretty much way it rolled out on CSX, placed here so our friends at BNSF, UP and NS can have a look..	Calvin	1	281	4:37 PM, 03/10/19 by Thunderwagon5000
	Bad wreck In B.C. - crew of 3 in the river (Preview) https://globalnews.ca/news/4922096/train-derailment-field-b-c/	Thunderwagon5000	8	495	6:34 PM, 02/15/19 by Calvin
	CP Stack derails near Toronto (Preview) https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/crews-respond-to-cp-train-derailment-in-ajax-1.4265702	The Krink	0	286	1:50 AM, 01/24/19 by The Krink
	CN derailment at Saskatoon (Preview) [url]https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dashboard-video-captures-moment-52-car-train-derails-near-saskatoon-...	The Krink	3	470	1:45 AM, 01/24/19 by The Krink
	CP derailment in Spiral Tunnel (Preview) https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,4703164	The Krink	0	360	2:41 AM, 01/07/19 by The Krink
	CP Holiday Train 2018 (Preview) The CP really out did themselves for 2018 as I was really impressed with the "Holiday Train". This train is moving westward currently having just left Chicago and probly travel the CP transcon to Vancouver BC with many stops along the way. This train will be video'd and photographed hundreds of times...	The Krink	0	315	1:48 AM, 12/02/18 by The Krink
	Live railcam at Revelstoke BC (Preview) The Canadian Pacific Transcon Vancouver BC to Montreal goes through Revelstoke BC. Revelstoke a huge CP railroad town and division point and crew change point. Notice watching the webcam today that they get their crew change done in 3-5 minutes as its blocking a few crossings in town. Think trains...	The Krink	2	900	2:11 AM, 11/16/18 by The Krink
	NOT Canuckistan railroad nooz! (Preview) But this might just be more important. Depending... https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45788532 Weed. Legalized or not, lotsa people gonna smoke anyway. Some habits die hard. And if they figure out how ta tax the shit, who knows? Legal marijuana could bring in more money than crude...	Uke	5	712	5:09 PM, 10/19/18 by Uke
	/article/the-weird-and-isolating-life-of-a-young-railway-engineer (Preview) We talked to a railway engineer about about endless miles of track, plowing through wildlife, and how most people don't even think that job exists anymore.Adam Landry has worked the rails for over a decade, and logged enough miles to circle the earth 10 times. Currently a locomotive engineer with a n...	Thunderwagon5000	7	993	6:47 PM, 04/04/18 by Snippy
	Clearly the engineer's fault (Preview) https://twitter.com/logancadue/status/970051598037798912/video/1	Thunderwagon5000	0	656	2:32 PM, 03/04/18 by Thunderwagon5000
	Not exactly Canuckistan railroad news (Preview) But this IS big news if ya live way up in The Great White (almost always) Frozen North. Yep! Surely our old pals steamer, and TW-5K have noticed strange phenomena with climatic conditions of late, you betcha! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/insurers-extreme-weather-canada-1.4497456	Uke	11	533	8:06 AM, 01/26/18 by Uke
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