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Canadian Railroads > Ontario Northand Bid in the works?Date: 01/24/15 18:19 Ontario Northand Bid in the works? Author: DrLoco Jan 23'rd North Bay Nugget has an article about a potential bidder for the ONR. It's a company called TGR Rail and the Mushkegowuk Tribal Council. The story in full is here:
http://www.nugget.ca/2015/01/23/ont-northland-bid-in-the-works They're talking of adding service and trains and even new trackage around the Ring of Fire mineral areas...Lofty goals, indeed! Date: 01/24/15 21:04 Re: Ontario Northand Bid in the works? Author: NDHolmes At least it's not CN. I'd hate to see another one of Canada's wonderful regional north-south lines gutted.
Date: 01/25/15 15:32 Re: Ontario Northand Bid in the works? Author: kgmontreal With the closure of the mill in Iroquois Falls the ONR will lose a significant portion of their traffic. It will make the railway makes less attractive to a potential purchaser.
KG Date: 01/26/15 08:59 Re: Ontario Northand Bid in the works? Author: iomalley Hope they keep copius amounts of cash handy to maintain track built on muskeg.
ONR needs gov't support or deep pockets to serve the north, period. That was the model back in the T&NO days, what's changed? Higher labour costs and fuel prices...oh that'll work in a Shortline model. Robot crews...good math. Sean Steele London, ON |