Maybe CN will announce they have changed their minds about investing in PG?

Or maybe CN has hired Paplou and the first order of business is to scale back CN to one train per month between PG and Vancouver?

They are building a communication tower for the cell phone distributors, radio and TV broadcasters, and putting a revolving restaurant on the top with a hotel at the base integrated with a new station geared to the tourist users of the east west run and north south run.

Oh, an aside announcement will be that they will be footing 75% of the cost of constructing the Cameron Street bridge at a location which will see it offloading traffic in direct line with the access road to their transfer facility and providing the City with $1million to preserve the existing bridge as a heritage site.

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Of course, with the first announcement will go the fact that they will be shutting down the tracks immediately adjacent to first avenue and selling off meaningful sized parcels of land to those who will develop them as commercial properties that will significantly improve the appearance of first avenue as a gateway to the city centre from the east.

Please note that the previous announcement by the CN Manager states that they would load 60 or 70 Containers per day. This is somewhat in line with what presently goes to Vancouver via Rail and Truck. Not really a big deal, and of course we must keep in mind that there will be a loss of jobs when the Prince George to Vancouver traffic disapears.

The second thing to note is that they are not building a **New intermodal facility** but are in fact renovating their old **Roundhouse adjacent to the Prince George Railway museum so that it can accomodate unloading rail cars, and loading Containers. It looks like this facility will have about 8 truck bays.

It will be interesting to see what the actual announcement will be. Maybe they have reached an agreement with the Pulp Mills and Lumber shppers in the area to load Containers to Prince Rupert. If they havent reached this agreement yet, then they better get off their butts because October is coming up fast.

how mundane .... absolutely no imagination ....

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Perhaps the time has come to announce the closure of all the former bcr trackage.With the cost of lumber it's just a matter of time before it becomes economically unfeasable to maintain all that track just for a few carloads.Plus it will free up manpower to run container trains.CN only buys railroads for the manpower.It's the only way they can get people to work for them.Almost all that hire out quit once they realize how they will be treated!

"Initiatives Prince George has issued word of a news conference for local media later this morning at the CN rail yard on First Avenue."

The train is late.

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Seems the big announcement is that CN is purchasing 65 New Diesel Locomotives in addition to the 65 announced last year. Some of these will be used for handling Container trains from Prince Rupert.

Question.

With all the traffic originating in Prince Rupert and being shipped to the American Midwest. With a few empty containers being loaded from Prince George to Prince Rupert, why are the announcements being made in Prince George. One would think that this would be announced in Prince Rupert where all the action is. Perhaps it gets more coverage in Prince George, which helps CN with its badly battered image.

I dis not hear the announcement. Where are the engines manufactured?

65 engines earlier were announced specifically in relation to this region. The latest ones were not in their official news release. That makes 130 new ones with 145 to be retired. The engines are improved from the point of view of emissions as well as fuel usage. Perhaps the local spin is that they will assist in reducing the impact on the sensitive PG airshed.

Where this was announced in addition to Prince George, I do not know. Prince Rupert could easily have been another location.

Interesting that it was done through IPG. I am wondering how much influence they had on forcing the hands of CN to provide us with “cleaner” engines.

http://www.cn.ca/about/media/news_releases/2007/2nd_quarter/en_News20070621.shtml

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The official announcement was released in Montreal Que. which is standard prodedure for CN Rail. I suspect that the locals got on board to try and get some mileage out of it, much the same as IPG.

IPG had absolutely no influence on CN Rail in regards to emissions. These diesels will be built in the good old USofA by General Electric, and as Owl said they will replace 145 older diesels that are being retired.


If this was the announcement then it can only be discribed as a **Non Event**