Or are they? A train passed as I started this post and nothing in the past hour or so.
I hope you enjoyed the quiet little town we have had for the last three days. Nothing like a derailment and an engineer strike to cut back on the rail traffic through Parry Sound. I saw a train carrying rails heading north on Monday, likely to repair damage caused by the the derailment south of Timmins over the weekend.
So expect a little more noise and additional traffic backups on the rail crossings as the backed up traffic needs to be pushed through.
It has been a bad week, month, year, decade and new century for the rail industry. They just don’t seem able to keep their trains from running off the tracks. But on a positive side the railways have their business on track with profits booming (I guess that isn’t a word I should be using when discussing railways), and the railway executives being very well compensated for using their ‘given rights’ to ‘run over’ the Canadian public.
Here’s a link to a concise summary of the many accidents the train industry has seen over the past few years.
All Quiet on the Southbound Track. (Parry Sound in Black & White)
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February 18, 2015 at 9:17 pm
CN 908 Continuous Welded Rail train has been working in our area for the past week or so laying new rail down for rail replacement this summer. Welded rail trains can’t lay rail without track being in place to do so; so they are unable to service a derailment site. They likely use rail segments at those sites.
Per CN communication: “CN train U70451-10 derailed along the Ruel subdivision of our main line. The incident, which occurred on Saturday, February 14 at 2350hrs EST near Gogama, ON, obstructed trains running between Montreal, QC, and Winnipeg, MB. The site was cleared as of 2230hrs EST on Tuesday, February 17th.”