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Originally Posted by CalDal
I heard CN applied for twinning of track / load increase and to double stack cars, do you know where they want to twin the tracks?
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They shouldn't have to apply to anyone for this. According to
Section 98 (3)(a) of the Canada Transportation Act:
No approval is needed for the construction of a railway line within the right of way of an existing railway line
However...
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If you look in the pics of their Conrich yard Brochure (http://www.cn.ca/documents/Shipping/...rochure-en.pdf on page 2) it looks like the line is twinned before AND after their new yard (note that it seems a single dotted line is one set of tracks, and they have 2 dotted lines coming in and going out)
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... it looks like they're going to build their new yard over existing road RoWs. If the municipal council is willing, they can sell that land to CN (railways don't like road RoWs to exist across their yards because the public can theoretically invoke a "right of way", not necessarily by car but certainly on foot or horseback). If not, CN can apply to Transport Canada to expropriate it on their behalf... yes, that's right, a federally-regulated railway can effectively expropriate land from lower levels of government.
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Wouldn’t the length of the trains running to the Conrich yard have them wanting to twin the lines before Conrich and beyond? (Maybe even to Delacour)? They may not need to twin all the way from Calgary, but before and after the Conrich yard seems their plan.
What would this twinning / increased load / double stacking mean to property owners that border the existing CN line (before and after Conrich)? Will CN have to widen their 100 foot right of way (by appropriating / buying land?)?
Or can the twin the line within the 100 feet?
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They certainly should be able to. Each track requires 16 feet, so theoretically as many as 6 tracks can fit in the RoW. In practice the abutments for bridges, embankments/cuttings, service roads, signalling, etc., prevent more than three continuous tracks from fitting in without localized appropriations outside the RoW.