Historic Route creates new prosperity in the North

Classic Trains General Discussion
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The Churchill Route update

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/betsy-kennedy-laying-the-tracks-for-future-prosperity-in-the-north/wcm/3635f28b-e89a-428d-86c1-b51d612c0902/

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I’m not surprised at all that the cost of track repairs is proving far higher than expected.

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6671

I wonder if anyone is thinking of resurrecting CN’s experiment of installing refrigeration plants and permanently freezing the subgrade on the northern end of the line?

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I can’t claim first-hand experience with muskeg, but I know what it is.

Listen, if what became the Norfolk and Western could build a rail line through the Great Dismal Swamp here in Viginia in the Nineteenth Century the folks rebuilding that line in Canada should be able to handle muskeg. Put enough fill under the rails and you can run anything.

Former Confederate general William Mahone did the engineering work for the Dismal Swamp line. It carrys Norfolk-Southern trains to this day.

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You would love our frost heaves… …probably not a problem in Virginia or farther south.

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Wow…incredible story in the article. The entire family is around the railroad industry. With the high cost and covid delay, it’s certainly unlucky for the person though…

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No frost heaves aren’t a problem here, that’s for certain. We DO have some hellacious sun kinks and bottomless goo though!