1. This is CN 44295, the Rail Threader Car and the way of moving welded rail from inside the carriers to outside the existing rail head. This was the tail end of CN #488, Edson to Saskatoon according to the TSG, on June 20, 2000 at 1247. The CWR train was the back half of a consist whose front half was a string of ballast hoppers.

Due to changing economics the CN Rail Barge, Aqua Train, has made their final run. The Aqua rain is one of two rail barges that serve the state of Alaska. Service began in 1962 and as a general rule made two trips a month between Prince Rupert and Whittier Alaska. Over the last several years servic

Some posters have referred to CN abandoning the former BC Rail line between Williams Lake and Squamish, but it has not been abandoned. Service has been suspended. Abandonment, which is known as “discontinuance” in the Canadian federal regulatory regime, involves a process that can take several years to complete.

Northwestern Alberta's only rail link into British Columbia has completed its reconstruction and will soon begin shaking off nearly a decade of rust to the glee of local municipalities. The Canadian National Railway has spent nearly $4 million over the last year to fix the once-abandoned 74 kilometres of rail line, situated between Hythe and ...

Before CN tookover in 2004, BC Rail was running three regular freight trains each way everyday between Prince George and North Vancouver. CN cut it back to one train each way perday. CN started to divert "south traffic" from Exeter and Williams Lake, north to Prince George and then "around the horn" to Vancouver or points east of Prince George ...

VANCOUVER, Nov. 25, 2003 : CN announced today it will pay the B.C. government $1 billion in cash to acquire the outstanding shares of BC Rail Ltd., along with the right to operate over BC Rail s roadbed under a long-term lease. BC Rail s rail bed will remain in …

What's scary is that this (the ex-BC Rail runaway) is not an isolated incident on CN. On March 9, 1987 the CN had another runaway (and I'm sure there have been others) in Eastern Canada. On this runaway the crew was using two units, neither of which were equipped with dynamic brakes, on a branch that involved a long grade out of a mine.

CN runs daily from Williams Lake to Quesnel and Quesnel to Prince George, Williams Lake to 100 Mile House twice a week. The Rocky Mountaineer runs seasonally all the way from North Vancouver to Prince George, and CN runs very infrequently from Squamish to Shalalth to deliver new transformers (and take away the old ones) to a hydroelectric plant ...

CN managed to take a round trip to Prince George and stretch it out to 35 hours or more, on BC Rail we were ticked if we were gone 26 hours. Also myself and the Conductor I was working with held the record for awhile of 18 hr 45 min "held away", that is after being 11 hours in the "rest facility" ie the Gold Crap motel in Prince George.

A contractor is removing rail from the CN Oyen Subdivision. This portion of track formed the Hanna AB/Kindersly SK. portion of the former Canadian Northern route from Saskatoon to Calgary. Portions of this route may remain in place if there are …