home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

 Message 2405 
 Clark F Morris to All 
 Re: Shiny new CN hopper cars eastbound o 
 03 Jan 17 12:33:18 
 
On 31 Dec 2016 13:31:27 -0500, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
wrote:

>We were driving west on Highway 138 in Quebec about a week ago, maybe
>20 minutes east of Mont Sainte Anne, and saw something very odd -- a
>convoy of 4 heavy haul trucks each carrying a brand-new (or newly
>repainted), short hopper car with CN markings.
>
>There's a rail line that goes as far as La Malbaie, and supposedly it
>does have freight customers, but it's not used in the winter.  Aside from
>that, is there any rail on the north shore of the St. Lawrence east of
>Quebec City at all?
>
>I'm at a bit of a loss where these could have been going, and why.

There is the ore mine railroad serving a mine in Labrador with a
terminus at Sept Iles.

Clark Morris
>
>Anyone have any ideas?

--- SoupGate/W32 v1.03
 * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- UseNet FTN Gateway (1:2320/1)

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca