CP Rail Main Line

[HFL]

Apparently CP's rail line between Medicine Hat and the Sask boarder has been washed out in a few places. With more rain in the forecast its unlikely to be fixed real soon. I am wondering what other route CP can take to get the grain out of southern Sask or if this brings grain movement to a standstill?

[food4u]

CP would divert everything north to Saskatoon. Had a grand daughter playing ball in Perdue yesterday and every two hours there was a train going one way or the other.

[HFL]

from Sasktoon to Edmonton then to Calgary and on to Vancouver?

[food4u]

That is their only way to get west. Saskatoon to Macklin, onto Camrose over to Wetaskiwin and south to Calgary.

[LWeber]

Con***ius says Ancient Board Prophecy:

Take grain to Churchill - store it for 18 months - reload to Vancouver. Farmers get wealthy.

[bucket]

Maybe railways get wealthy.

[LWeber]

That would make it 2 for 2 then Bucket.

[TOM4CWB]

I see no increase on CP hwy 13 line.

CN hwy 14 line has megatrains on sunday nite trip.

CN/CP share BC lines through the Fraser Canyon... wouldn't be a stretch with CP line out that more trains would just go down over Yellowhead pass till it CP line gets fixed... for traffic that can't be delayed a couple of days.

"High water in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan impacts CP Rail
(Canadian Pacific Railway issued the following Service Bulletin on June 20, 2010.)

CALGARY — As an update to our bulletin late last week, a once in 100-year rainfall event has caused flooding and widespread damage in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. This has caused the closure of the Trans Canada Highway east of Medicine Hatand local states of emergency have been declared in nine municipal jurisdictions. Red Cross evacuations have taken place in four communities.

High water has also affected CP's right of way on the Maple Creek Subdivision between Medicine Hat. AB, and Swift Current, SK. Our southern mainline is closed, but we have remained operational by rerouting traffic over other available rail lines. We are now repairing our right of way as the water recedes but expect the line to be out a minimum of three more days.

We are deploying over 60 management and unionized train crew employees and other resources to facilitate movement of traffic on other routes. This is allowing us to reroute traffic to the greatest extent possible over our northern route and via other railways. With the restoration today of our Montana Subdivision between Lethbridge and Coutts/Sweetgrass after last week's washout, we are now also able to use this line for both normal traffic and as an alternate route.

Our engineering crews are employing significant resources to restore our route as soon as safely possible, and our operations team is working to move all traffic by continuing to expand our capability to move additional traffic on alternate routes.

We continue to monitor the weather in all affected areas and will be sending further updates daily as the contingency plans are updated.

Those directly impacted will be contacted by our Customer Service Team. Further questions about the flooding or specific shipment problem resolution inquiries can be directed to our Customer Service Team at 1-888-333-8111. To trace your shipment, visitwww.mycpr.ca."

Thanks to the 'Brotherhood'!

[bucket]

The CP release should also include the following:

" ... and remember this when we go in front of the CTA for a freight rate increase ..... because like the oil companies we expect to be reimbursed by our customers for our hard luck....and to insure we are adequately reimbursed this disaster will become part of the formula for determining rates...."