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CN makes offer to buy Halterm

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CN Rail’s CEO told the financial post on Wednesday that it made an offer to buy Halterm from Macquarie Infrastructure. Macquarie Infrastructure bought the terminal in 2007 for 173 million.

CN wants to tern Halterm into the Prince Rupert of the east coast, and attempt to lure traffic from New York. CN’s rail network reaches extensively into the US, and has port access in the Gulf of Mexico.

this is the best possible terminal operator for halifax, is they want to fill their trains, and have the ability to market the terminal and lure new customers here.

Loram Rail Grinder

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Bad weekend for Via Rail

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it was a bad weekend for train operations in Nova Scotia.

Sunday, the VIA rail train that arrived on Saturday was being turned around, when it derailed. the train was unoccupied at the time, and the equipment was removed Sunday night. As this incident blocked all access to Halterm, its possible some delyas in container movements happened.

Friday afternoon, a Via Employee was stepping off train 15 (the Halifax to Montreal Ocean)  as it slowly pulled into the station at Truro when he got caught, fell and was struck by the train. a 63 year old man was taken to Hospital in Halifax , with serious injuries.

An earlier news report said he had a severed leg. though the veracity of that is unknown.

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CitiRail Lease at front of CN121

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Vintage Halifax Rail

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Historic Photos of Halifax Rail.

The Trains of France

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CN RDC Track Evaluation Unit

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Rail Diesel Cars were built as self propelled passenger cars for shorter routes, and were a common site on Nova Scotia Railways. CN took one of the type, and converted it to a track Evaluation unit – as the RDC travels the rails, it collects information about the Condition of the track.

Turning VIA Rail 14/15

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VIA14 Turning at Halterm. the Ocean arrives at Halifax station nose first, and departs nose first. there is a big loop around the halterm container terminal, which the train uses to turn around, and then back into the station to ready itself for departure.