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News Wire: Last logging railroad in North America falls

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:05 AM

WOSS, British Columbia — Western Forest Products announced Tuesday that Vancouver Island’s Englewood Railroad, the last logging railroad in North America, is closed for good. The decision to close the logging railroad on the north end o...

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Posted by selector on Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:07 AM

It's just two hours drive north of me.  Too bad. That accident must have thrown a lot of cold water on the operation.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:14 AM

I suspect the cold water is having to act as a organized professional undertaking that because of the incident has attraced the limelight of Canadian authorities.

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Posted by csxns on Thursday, November 9, 2017 3:46 PM

selector
That accident must have thrown a lot of cold water on the operation.

Now what happens when the log trucks start killing will that stop also.

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Posted by ROBERT WILLISON on Friday, November 10, 2017 9:59 AM

csxns

 

 
selector
That accident must have thrown a lot of cold water on the operation.

 

Now what happens when the log trucks start killing will that stop also.

 Most likely the true reasons behind the closings are pure ecomomics. Just a good cover to shut her down.

 

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