It’s been a long few days of cleaning up for the Ontario Northland Railroad as they hurry to get the Kirkland Lake sub back for freight service.
The north section of Swastika junction rarely gets used these days as there are no trains destined in between Timmins/Cochrane and Noranda so it was a nice surprise to see them using it.
Although it is nice to have a junction like this, Swastika junction is a very sharp wye as there are multiple large mountains and rivers in the surrounding area so they had to make due with what they had.  This ended up being a huge hassle for the Ditcher crew as they had to fight the sharp curves and grade to make it out of Swastika.
11 сен 2024