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Grade separation would only benefit GO/ONR/VIA as CN only runs east/west across it. It would also be much more complex than Davenport as CN needs the top two diverging tracks to connect north with the Bala. There's no point as the tracks immediately north would still be CN-owned with little room for increased GO service anyways.
Is there enough space for 4 tracks to the last GO station?
The blue emergency sign at a road crossing for the new North Bay yard bypass track says 'ONR Newmarket Sub'; although I suppose that could change.
"North Bay Sub" wouldn't be that descriptive since there are lots of different railways in North Bay. I suspect that's why railways are usually named after a community near the middle of the line, such as
Thanks for the insights and makes sense.
Although inconsistently. Mactier is at the end of its eponymous sub, as is White River and, in the past, was Meaford on CN and Port McNicol on CP. I think if you go into a much earlier CN organization, it - or part of it - was the Huntsville sub.
Those were run by CN crews back in the day. Not sure if they recrewed in north bay or Huntsville though.So back to the future? Not sure at this time whether this train went all the way to Mac Yard cc @smallspy @crs1026
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I don't know why it would be. The trains that come and go up and down the ONR Temagami sub are not simply repowered/re-crewed intact. A lot of the freight does move to and from the south but some also moves between CN, ONR and OVR, or simply stays there (i.e. GO Transit cars for refurb).
There may very well also be some need for capacity to support any freight generated from the Ring of Fire, specifically if Timmins is the host site for a processing facility.
Perhaps, although quite frankly the RoF has gone through a number hands since the beginning and I've kinda lost track. Last I heard, the chromium refinery was slated for Sault Ste. Marie (which maybe why Watco sees some future value in owning the line). There will be a need for smelters/refineries for the other metals and it was a plan at one point to mine those first in order to fund the cost of a chromium refinery, and that it would likely be done at Sudbury.
The OVR section between Sudbury and North Bay is their Cartier sub, and the CPKC section west of Cartier is their Cartier sub, so there's that.
