Railroad Oddities in Modern Times

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Railroad Oddities in Modern Times

Unread postby ENR3005 » Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:42 am

I thought I would throw out a new thread for unique operations which like me you would never know actually existed today. A while back I came across a modern isolated freight railroad in rural eastern Canada with a 7 mile mainline which requires interchange with CN by car ferry. The railroad itself put out a very interesting promo video and is worth a watch as it has some great scenes of a CN rail ferry being switched. This is also a relatively new railroad built in 1976, when similar lines were being torn up. This also could be a route that would be very simple to build and fun to operate in our sim and is very unlike any other rail operation on the east coast of North America, operations like this simply do not exist anymore with the exception of a very small list. This one is a modern contradiction. Links are below for the promo video and company website.

https://youtu.be/-gs7cZqu-1s

https://sopor.ca/en/
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Re: Railroad Oddities in Modern Times

Unread postby AmericanSteam » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:52 pm

Thank you for the post. Interesting. Running a railroad as a NPO that is not a tourist railroad.
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Re: Railroad Oddities in Modern Times

Unread postby Chacal » Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:12 am

This is in the province I live in. But "isolated" doesn't begin to describe how freaking far away from everything this place is, and on the wrong side of the Saint-Lawrence river.
This operation is vital, I didn't know it was a NPO. Amazing.
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