hope they find a place at a reasonable cost good luck

Did Dan Rogers ask the CN management if they were cutting senior management bonuses?

Give it a rest Rick.

just wait, there is more.
Since CN purchased all the assets from BC Rail, they had about 5 years to maintain what was already in place.
That period has expired and now CN is talking about shutting down some spur lines.
Who would thonk it?

CN is not community friendly. The Rail museum is a great asset for the tourist economy of Prince George. Surprisingly, a rail company is acting snobby towards a rail museum.

A suggestion to city council. Can they contribute rent towards the facility to keep the building and preserve the artifacts????

I"m tired of supporting these things that give certain people cushy jobs and don't bring in any revenue. Dump it and sell the scrap.

"CN is not community friendly."

If hundreds of paying jobs in a community isnt enough then you should try moving to Russia.

"Since CN purchased all the assets from BC Rail, they had about 5 years to maintain what was already in place.
That period has expired and now CN is talking about shutting down some spur lines."

Huh. Its like these spurs need to generate revenue or they are a waste of money. You do realize that if we still owned BC Rail that wasted money would be our tax dollars? You understand that right?

"Did Dan Rogers ask the CN management if they were cutting senior management bonuses?"

Senior managers are also not halfway home 2 minutes after "quitting time." They work long hours for no incremental pay, something that the average union member simply cannot understand.

Hello Socialist. It is your NDP that started and initiated the sale of BC Rail they just did not have the guts to go through with it. BC Tax payers expect profits or non-profit from gov't run organizations not losses.
CN is in business to make money and be profitable. Businesses are created to make money and the spin off is employement, not the other way around.

"Did Dan Rogers ask the CN management if they were cutting senior management bonuses?"

I think that is a legitimate question when you have a private company that operates from one end of this country to another on crown land.

When a company that generates its wealth in part using public resources, some social responsibilities are required. Therefore before any social responsibilities are removed by the company to save money, perhaps extras such as senior management bonuses should be re-evaluated.

If that is too much to ask, then it needs to be legislated so it is so?

I am not especially fond of CN Rail. In fact as a Railroad, I think they suck. The have absolutely no concept of customer service, and will grind you for your last dollar.

On the other hand they did provide this building to the Railway Museum for 10 years or more for little or no rent. I doubt that the Museum ever had the brains to have a plan two in place. So now that they have to move out, they will have to come up with some other way to look after this equipment.

The bottom line is, its really not a big deal and Im sure they will deal with it.

The Museum might want to thank CN Rail for the service they provided up to this point in time.

bibc: they are the only game in won now for rail. IMO They have a duty to maintain even non-profitable routes. Those routes exist because there was and is a need for the users.

Palopu:
Exactly!

According to The Citizen website, the Museum had use of the building at no cost for the past seven years and CN was paying $60K -$70K annually to keep the lights on.

I agree, the Museum should be thanking CN for footing the bill for so long.

So of all the people bitching about CN and posting "facts" about CN. How many of you work there? CN doesn't operate on crown land.

Let's all say goodbye to the museum.

Some of CN's rail beds are leased from the provincial government, the federal government has given CN land for rail beds with conditions on how it may be sold or discontinued. So Ruez I would say CN does operate on crown land.

CN rail does not operate on crown land. All the land other than the BC rail line was given to CN or the various railroads that formed CN by the federal government in land grants. The same as CP rail. The former BC rail line was a crown corporation just the same as BC Hydro. Therefore those entities own the land. Even if you could argue that the former BC rail line is crown land, that is only a tiny fraction of the CN line.

Exactly and unless it is going to be used as rail, it must be returned to the federal government.

I'd like you to point me to where you found this information.

Its on your CN website. It can be sold to another company for railway perposes, or it has to be offered back to various levels of government for no more than the cost of salvage.
It doesn't say what salvage is but, I would assume it means the cost of restoration.

its important to remember that the tax payer the former owners of bc rail have never been shown the actual deal of the sale, its all a big secret 5 years after the sale (oops i mean lease) ,all 999 years of the it, still blacked out after 5 years?