Train stuck in snow near Québec City !

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I tried posting this Wednesday morning; but problems with the site prevented my post from appearing. So I’ll try again…

In Wednesday’s (12 March) editions of Le Soleil and Le Journal de Québec (local French-language dailies) there were articles about a train stuck in snow since the huge snow storm Saturday night (8 March). A freight train with about 10 cars of aluminium en route to Québec City became stuck in a huge snow drift in Neuvile (just west of Québec City) late Saturday night. CN dispatched crews to dig it out; but attempts to free the train were unsuccessful, and workers were forced to wait until Tuesday. Only then, with the aid of 6 large snow blowers, were they able to clear the 10 feet of snow and free the train. The line re-opened to traffic at about 6:30 Tuesday evening (11 March).

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Pics or it didn’t happen.

…Well, I just want to see pictures of this, really…

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Hopefully this does not happen again until December, and spring appears soon along the Saint Laurent.

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Trainboy,

I’m sorry. I wish I could show a photo; but the only one I saw was a very small (2"x2") black & white photo printed in one of the papers. And even if I had a scanner, scanning the photo from the paper would have resulted in a very poor quality image. I tried to find it online but couldn’t.

CN’s website only mentioned delays on its network in eastern Canada due to heavy snow; but didn’t get into any specifics and certainly showed no photos.