Something must be in the works, there has been a Sperry Hi-rail prowling the line for about two weeks now. Saw it this morning in Campbell Creek right at the LeHigh cement plant.
Now wonder it's the last train. With that many police sirens I figure you'd go to pick up a scrap gondola but all the scrap is gone and so are the wheels. By the time you realize the situation your locomotive got jacked.
After watching the train shimmy and sway, and then the difficult time the brakeman/switchman had trying to work with that unstable switch, I'm wondering if these guys got hazardous duty pay.
Godo to know my KPR railway stilll runs. My KPR or Canadian Porvelo Rail system is my model train which I run at shows. My KPR has existed since 1976 and still exists today.
It's sad that that railroad went bankrupt and ceased to exist. There's not enough shipping by rail. And with the tracks in such bad condition on the final run in this video, it looked like a comic parody of running a train - I half expected to see Tim Conway as the brakeman and Harvey Korman as the engineer.
On September 26, 2013, CN announced that it had reached agreements with a major shipper and two locals of the Teamsters union that would allow CN to resume operations over most of the Kelowna Pacific. CN said it planned to abandon the line between Lumby Junction and Kelowna. In 2014 CN began removing the railroad tracks in Kelowna.
Ha ha, I have heard such before...when an operator doesn't own the track it is hard to get them to invest in it, just make money off it as long as possible. I would like to think SRY is probably better than the average, though. Video is right by the Trans Canada Hwy, so lots of traffic, maybe emergency vehicles responding to an accident. Good thing CN is now heavily investing the in the Okanagan line.
C.N.: At one point on the tracks, the locomotives, were rocking, left and right, much too excessively. I thought that, that was going to be "IT"! But thank goodness the train did not "derail", possibily spilling "toxic" material all over the lands scape. Now, we have seen "enough", of that in the news recently, haven't we !
Thanks for the comment. #1 - there was no toxic substance on this consist. #2 - they went slow enough on the line at the time before it got rebuilt to not cause problems #3 - the crews on this run are awesome guys and don't take risks.
@@CPRail4744 "there was no toxic substance on this consist" While that may be literally true, that rake of PROX tankers are all carrying hazmat placards for some flammable material.
@@beeble2003they are propane tank cars yes, but they were empty at the time, the Kelowna Pacific used their sidings for empty tank car storage for years. So as Matt said, there were no hazardous materials on this train.
@@thompsonriverrailfan Well, something is still wrong. A hazmat placard is supposed to indicate the presence of hazardous material, not just that the car is normally used to carry that. If those tank cars were purged of all LPG, then they should have no placards on them. Conversely, if they have merely been unloaded, and not purged of any residue, then there _is_ hazmat on board. Taking LPG as a specific example, it's only a liquid when under pressure. When the car is unloaded, it ends up full of no-longer-liquified petroleum gas, plus nitrogen from the inerting system at the unloading point. For substances that are liquid at normal temperatures and pressures, there's always some liquid sloshing around at the bottom of the tank after it's been unloaded, which is why even empties have to be placarded.
Railroad companies all over America (assume you mean the US) do this. Far more than CN. But to bring a railroad back to life there needs to be a reason to do so. If customers do not ship on the railroad there is no point in spending millions to bring it back to life.
No, CN took the line over again, has always owned it. KPR had leased it starting in 2000, I believe, and then went bankrupt in 2013, so the Sub was overhauled and now CN runs regular trains on it. Thanks for the question.
