Hunger Strikers $400,000 doing carnage to CNCP Rail!

[bucket]

Are saying railway performance is adequate?

The system has to strive for being able to handle 60 mmt as a minimum.

It's not there. Nor will it be at the rate they are going. And considering they are still tearing out lines.

No concrete no matter the size should go 1 week without a train.

[tweety]

What has changed or is even planned to greatly improve rail efficiency?

[bucket]

NOTHING!!!!!!

And hasn't since 1997 and prior.

Years behind in getting better.

Not even a whisper as to why CP laid of people and idled locomotives and parked cars.

[MBgrower]

CP rail stock up 5.5% today. Thank you tom, nice tidy profit for me.

[bucket]

And another highway falls apart.

Maybe if the railways just ran in the mountains someone would figure out how much this public infrastructure is costing.

[furrowtickler]

Some guys are gleefully blind because they have one or two mainlines running right beside them that get good service - that accounts for less than 10% of the actual farms in western Canada - but it's backyarditis that kicks in - if it's good for me it's good for everyone everywhere, and everyone else is just a bunch of whiners.

[bucket]

If I ever ran politically I would impose fines to graincos for making them change delivery points. And fine them for elevator transfers via highways.

There is so much wrong with this system it's not funny.

A nearby branchline should have the competition bureau look at it because there is no competition on it.

[farmaholic]

The sweetest poetic justice that happened near here was the Stoughton to Regina line that was basically grain dependant almost forever and then abandoned because there was no concrete terminal on it but only old elevators and some special crops processors. By abandoned I mean sold to Stewart Southern Rail and they are railing oil to Regina on it and servicing the special crops processors. Missed opportunity for CP. Probably chump change for the multi-national. Sarcasm.... I beleive the train runs almost daily, if not pretty damn frequent.

Thumbs up to SSR!!!!

[furrowtickler]

Farmaholic - that's the same story in many other areas - I hope cp/cn choke on this lost opertunity.
When you get too big for your britches, sometimes you forget to button up you fly ...

[farmaholic]

That's what makes it so sweet. The oil traffic only came later. There is now a transloading (tanker truck to railcar) site at Stoughton.

I had started the process using producer cars on that line but it got too late in the year(two years ago with the rail cluster**** and big crop) and it was going to run into the beginning of harvest and with limited man power I opted for a terminal delivery on a CWB contract and cancelled the producer cars.. Thanks Louis Dreyfus-Glenavon.