Canadian Railroads > Crude oil by rail terminal planned in eastern Canada

See here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/oil-exports-to-get-eastern-boost-with-plans-for-nb-rail-terminal/article21245461/



Allen

Belledune, NB is on CN's lesser line through/near Gaspe (ie not on the main line to/from NS?)?

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JPB Wrote:
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> Belledune, NB is on CN's lesser line through/near
> Gaspe (ie not on the main line to/from NS?)?
>
> Posted from iPhone


I wonder if rebuilding that line would allow the return / expansion of passenger rail service?

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> I wonder if rebuilding that line would allow the
> return / expansion of passenger rail service?

Belledune is on the upper part of the ICR through New Brunswick (west of Bathurst). VIA is still running on the ICR between St. Andre Jct. and Moncton, although only three round trips per week. The part of the ICR that has the severe slow orders and was threatened with abandonment was east of Bathurst, so this doesn't directly involve the route of the proposed oil trains. Not mentioned in the article, but active on the New Brunswick rumour mill, is that only loaded oil trains would travel west of Belledune. The empties would continue east to Moncton, and then turn around west to go back on the NTR.

Meanwhile, a similar plan is being hatched to use the oil terminal at Pt. Tupper, on Cape Breton Island, for exporting oil. The oil infrastructure is already there, they just need to extend the track a couple miles from the existing CBNS Tupper Spur. G&W seems to be in the mood to upgrade the track west of Port Hawkesbury to accommodate this. More rumours are swirling about ballast trains this fall, although I haven't seen any confirmation from anybody on the ground yet.

GTD

cn6218 Wrote:
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> Lackawanna484 Wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if rebuilding that line would allow
> the
> > return / expansion of passenger rail service?
>
> Belledune is on the upper part of the ICR through
> New Brunswick (west of Bathurst). VIA is still
> running on the ICR between St. Andre Jct. and
> Moncton, although only three round trips per week.
> The part of the ICR that has the severe slow
> orders and was threatened with abandonment was
> east of Bathurst, so this doesn't directly involve
> the route of the proposed oil trains. Not
> mentioned in the article, but active on the New
> Brunswick rumour mill, is that only loaded oil
> trains would travel west of Belledune. The
> empties would continue east to Moncton, and then
> turn around west to go back on the NTR.
>
> Meanwhile, a similar plan is being hatched to use
> the oil terminal at Pt. Tupper, on Cape Breton
> Island, for exporting oil. The oil infrastructure
> is already there, they just need to extend the
> track a couple miles from the existing CBNS Tupper
> Spur. G&W seems to be in the mood to upgrade the
> track west of Port Hawkesbury to accommodate this.
> More rumours are swirling about ballast trains
> this fall, although I haven't seen any
> confirmation from anybody on the ground yet.
>
> GTD

Thanks for that information. I'd love to see Canada reap the benefits of export oil at the Brent price. If it goes out via Cape Breton, so much the better. Folks up there could use more jobs, I'm sure.

Here's a link about the Pt. Tupper project:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1153262-oil-facility-planned-at-point-tupper




Allen



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/25/14 17:24 by bradleymckay.