Allandale25
Senior Member
Haven't seen any pics yet if the actual train carrying the minerals. I'm sure out there. Have you seen any @smallspy @crs1026 @Northern Light ?
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Allandale25
Senior Member
Found pictures in this article:
PORT OF CHURCHILL TAKES MAJOR STEP FORWARD WITH NEW CRITICAL MINERALS EXPORT INFRASTRUCTURE — Arctic Gateway Group
AGG announced today that it has completed construction of a dedicated facility that will play a major role in the export of critical minerals through Churchill.
www.arcticgateway.com
lenaitch
Senior Member
Good to see. I doubt the previous condition of the line would have allowed that level of tonnage on an economic scale. Interesting that it sounds like they are going after the arctic re-supply market as well. Currently, pretty much everything that isn't flown into the eastern arctic is shipped from Montreal.Found pictures in this article:
PORT OF CHURCHILL TAKES MAJOR STEP FORWARD WITH NEW CRITICAL MINERALS EXPORT INFRASTRUCTURE — Arctic Gateway Group
AGG announced today that it has completed construction of a dedicated facility that will play a major role in the export of critical minerals through Churchill.
The context the bridge is just a symptom. Granted, a great big symptom, but from a safety, state-of-good-repair perspective, a component failure on a bridge is essentially no different than one on a rail connection or a coupler. It can lead to something simply becoming loose, to displaced to complete structural failure.
Quite frankly, in the recent past, certainly since most health units implemented publicly posting the inspection status, I don't recall a rash of food poisonings at eateries. I assume they simply determined that inspections and posting the results were good public health policy.
Northern Light
Superstar
Found pictures in this article:
PORT OF CHURCHILL TAKES MAJOR STEP FORWARD WITH NEW CRITICAL MINERALS EXPORT INFRASTRUCTURE — Arctic Gateway Group
AGG announced today that it has completed construction of a dedicated facility that will play a major role in the export of critical minerals through Churchill.
Let me bring the train pic forward from the above link:
Allandale25
Senior Member
(Video)
"Significant damage in Ayr - flipped rail cars and smashed equipment."
Northern Light
Superstar
From the above: (extracted still)
- Tornado flipped train and other major equipment.
Some location context for those going 'where'?
Allandale25
Senior Member
Another view:
PHOTOS: Damaging twister, flash flooding strike southern Ontario - The Weather Network
A chaotic Saturday across southern Ontario as storms unleash flooding, at least one tornado
www.theweathernetwork.com
crs1026
Superstar
The underpass under the CP Galt Sub at Dixie Road was completely filled, with water over the tracks in the area.
- Paul
- Paul
micheal_can
Senior Member
This goes to my thinking that we should not allow rail companies to allow the tracks to get that bad. It could mean missing the rise of an economic windfall. Railways were put in to do the heavy lifting.
True. The issue becomes whether the inspections are frequent enough to catch it before a collapse. As infrastructure ages, we need to catch these problems before they become failures.
That is what I mean, but not necessarily so obvious. We don't need inspection reports posted at each bridge. Yes the rail companies should be doing regular inspections, but there also should be an independent inspection as well that reports to the rail company and Transport Canada. I await any changes that might come from this that are made public.
Allandale25
Senior Member
^ also in that area
micheal_can
Senior Member
It is these extreme storms that test whether we are ready for climate change. "100 year storms" are becoming more frequent. Whether it be the floods in Toronto that have been less than 20 years apart and they would be considered 100 year storms or this one, we have much to harden for them. This can be compared to the joke that if you are experiencing a higher call volume than normal all the time, it is the new normal.
dowlingm
Senior Member
There is an industrial spur in Ayr
Bojaxs
Active Member
This was fascinating to watch. Documentary that focuses on transportation/ infrastructure in lesser developed countries. Each episode dedicated to a certain country. This episode focuses on Sumatra, Indonesia.
There is a segment of this episode that showcases a man and his motorized carriage on tracks. Later on in the episode they show how him and his crew improvise wood for missing tracks. Absolutely wild.
There is a segment of this episode that showcases a man and his motorized carriage on tracks. Later on in the episode they show how him and his crew improvise wood for missing tracks. Absolutely wild.
lenaitch
Senior Member
How do you define "that bad"? Obviously, no one would knowingly allow a bridge, etc. to be unsafe, but non-destructive testing and visual inspections have their limits. If they pick some arbitrary line, like 'every bridge must be replaced after 50 years', you hasten a line to potentially become unprofitable faster and an unprofitable line is an abandoned line. It's a lot more common in aviation when certain components are replaced at 'x' hours, period, and that is baked into the cost of flying.
Risk management in this sense is a constant balance between good public policy and economic viability.
I was obviously not making a direct comparison.
You will never see a return to a system of redundant inspections. The entire point of the SMS was to drive responsibility back to the operators under guise of a 'partnership'. The regulator (government) got to have a lot few inspectors. So-called 'independent' inspectors would essentially be government contract workers because they would have to operate under the authority of legislation and probably be twice as expensive.
Admiral Beez
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This is great to see. Unlike previous proposals to use Churchill to transport oil or LNG out of Western Canada this new plan has little direct environmental risk.
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