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Old Posted Feb 8, 2010, 8:14 PM
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Twinning near Conrich?

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Originally Posted by JBinCalgary View Post
They only runs two trains in a day, and two trains out, so adding a secon line would be useless

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?

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)

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?



You said there was another 2 intermodal pads coming on later, where would they put them and how long till they would put those in? Would it be on the land to the West (not shown in their map, bordering RR 284- aka Conrich Road)?
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