lenaitch
Senior Member
When the contract ends can't they just give it to ONR? The province is the regulatory authority right?
The right-of-way is owned by Canadian Pacific. Huron Central operate it under a lease agreement. Private companies tend not to simply give away their assets. Any new operator would have to reach some legal agreement with CP.
We have seen what someone with experience can do - Nothing. Maybe the lack of experience and working with ONR will work well.
Wrong. All railways are federal jurisdiction. ONR is an owner and operator of a line. Transport Canada is the regulator.
Not quite correct. The ONR is not federally regulated. It operates into Quebec through its ownership of the Nipissing Central Railway charter on that subdivision.
The part that I am unclear about - and hopefully one of the RR pros can help with - is the regulation of railway operations. Obviously, CP is a federally-regulated road, but they lease operations on their property to HCR. Neither HCR or G&W and listed as either provincially or federally regulated roads. Does CP allow HCR to operate under its charter or are operating authority and regulatory charter something different (I say this not researching the Railway Safety Act)? Provided permission is granted by CP to use their property, can Milman - or me - fire up a locomotive and conduct business without a certificate or something from somebody? Seems odd if so. If some sort of 'operating certificate' is required, does Milman have one? If not, how long and how many hoops to get one? What would be the incentive for ONR, which is actually in the business, to give that over to somebody else? From ONR's perspective, if they are approved to expand into that territory, what's in it for them to sub-contract it out?