Don't kick the tires, something may fall off the tracks!

Haha good one dgdiggler i was going to post that myself as soon as i read that. Cheers!

Heh heh. I had my coffee and donut this morning! My mind is clear....

Go down to the facility (on River road) and have a coffee and doughnut on the railway. It is an impressive facility, for which the construction of has provided a lot of constuction jobs and quite a few new positions for operation of the business. Not all the news about CN is bad. And before you say it, NO I am not the president of CN, nor even a mere employee, just an interested bystander.
metalman.

maby CN will use the wheel facility in BCR to better use and produce better quality wheels (or worse if they want more cutbacks and send the $$$ to the shareholders)

Wow! I thought for a second the headline read, "CN celebrates a new fatality."

This so called new facility is in fact the old CN Diesel shop that has been renovated into the Intermodal Reload Facility.

The CN and the Local Yokal politicians always make reference to the 60 jobs that were created (a bit of a stretch) however they always fail to mention that these jobs will at best compensate for all the jobs that were lost when CN bought BCRail.

So at the end of the day we will not have a net gain of jobs, and could in fact have a net loss.

As I said before, this traffic is presently moving to Vancouver put in Containers and sent to China. Putting it in Containers in Prince George and sending it to Prince Rupert for China, makes very little difference.

Palopu, what is wrong with replacing some of the jobs that were lost? I am thankful for the opportunity for any new jobs in our vicinity. Chester

Palopu is still mad that they replaced the wooden sidewalks. Some people can't accept change.

I dont have any problem with replacing the old jobs with new jobs. This in fact is a good thing. The problem is that the CN and others always construe this as being new jobs, and they fail to mention the lost jobs. In other words one sided hype. Over time we will lose trucking jobs to Vancouver, some warehouse and distribution jobs, and some jobs associated with the trucking Industry.

If in fact a large percentage of the pulp, lumber, and paper that presently goes to Vancouver goes to Prince Rupert, I can see the CN closing down the rail line between Williams Lake to North Vancouver, there is very little reason to keep this line open when you can go to Pr Rupert, or Vancouver via CN Rail.

For those who's memory is not much longer than a gnats dick, I would remind you that the CN had an Intermodal Operation in Prince George in the 70's and it was discontinued. The BC Rail also had a big Intermodal Operation that was shut down prior to BC Rail being sold to CN.

This traffic is being changed from going to Vancouver to Prince Rupert, because that is what works the best for CN Rail, which doe's not necessarily mean that it is the best deal for Prince George, it in fact may be detrimental.

Beware of ***Geeks*** bearing gifts.

All change is neither necessarily good or positive.

But change is constant and you either deal with it and make the most of it, or you sit back and lose out when someone else does take advantage of it.