2011.09.09 Chalk River line salvaging - Continuous Welded Rail Train

[Briantrainman]

I asked the guys doing the work where all this rail was going and they said Saskatoon.

[EasternOntarioTracks]

@Briantrainman Yes, at least CP is doing well there.

[Briantrainman]

I watched and photographed as the line was ripped up around Cobden this summer. I have listened to the trains rumble by and give blasts from their horns as they passed Pinewood Park road, which enters the campground there, for 18 years. The nights are now just too quiet.

[EasternOntarioTracks]

@Briantrainman

[sigzagzoo]

When CP left this track to the OVR - time was ticking away - all of us that left and continued to work for CP elsewhere, knew it was just a matter of time before they would pull up the tracks...there is NO major industry on the line...you have to have that to pay the bills...years before this even occurred they ran the Mactier route with our intermodel trains...once CN & CP started running directional traffic on that line and the economy crashed - was a great time to say GOODBYE

[fresco750]

Ontario will live to regret that it did not save this line.

[EasternOntarioTracks]

@fresco750 I think you are right!

[Railrodder]

Great video! This scene will become historic once the line is turned into nothing but a trail.

[cprailes44ac]

;_;

 What more can I say.

[GEES44DC]

And by CROR definition ... that is not a train!

[EasternOntarioTracks]

@GEES44DC I knew it was a special case and mentioned as much to someone at the crossing but it wasn't his area of expertise so he couldn't tell me. What is this movement?

[GEES44DC]

@EasternOntarioTracks By definition it is a transfer. There is nothing marking the end of the train, nor anything to read tail end brake pipe pressure. They are restricted to 15 mph. I mean it IS a train ... but at the same time it's not. Confusing to those who don't know the rules and regulations.

[GEES44DC]

Gonna take a lot of off roading to go back and get the ties, plates and spikes ... if they even do ...

[jaclm]

@GEES44DC A few weeks ago, I came across a hi-rail truck for the contractor (Cando, I think) trailing a few gondolas loaded with exactly that - so I suppose they are.

[GEES44DC]

@jaclm It's not like they can take a train out there to get all the left over's after the rail is pulled.

[jaclm]

@GEES44DC It looked to me like they had piled up all the material at the end of the rail, where it was being picked up by the truck. Which, of course, means that something had to go out and bring it there in the first place...

[GEES44DC]

@jaclm Yup.

[EasternOntarioTracks]

@GEES44DC I understand that scrap metal is quite valuable nowadays so it might be worth collecting everything.

Isn't there some sort of environmental worry with the ties, such that they simply may not be left behind?

[GEES44DC]

@EasternOntarioTracks They are in the ground now. There are many old sidings that have been removed where the railroads just leave the ties in. It all depends if they are good enough to be used in yard tracks or sidings or if they can find a buyer for them. I would assume in this case they would at the least gather them and stack them and come back for them a while from now.

[TheCprailfan1]

why must this happen

[EasternOntarioTracks]

@TheCprailfan1 Economics.