NEW YORK — Canadian National’s strategy to rely on the American consumer to help fill up its railroad east of Chicago just got bigger. CN has been aiming to turn the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, into the Port of Prince Rupert of the Eas...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/05/29-canadian-national-eyes-east-coast-ports-for-new-intermodal-traffic
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
If you are sailing a Great Circle Route from the Strait of Gibralter, Halifax is the closest port.
Finally some attention to CN's eastern region.. lots of potential as yet to be developed.
"What's old is new again": Literally decades ago - in the late 1960s and early 1970s - CN ran container trains out of Halifax, as reported in an article in Trains at the time by F. H. Howard. More importantly, the Trains Professional Iconoclast writer of a then-regular column - John G. Kneiling - advocated many times for Halifax for the same reasons as in the article, plus that Halifax was ice-free year round and needed no dredging to be a deepwater port. I'd provide citations but the damnable Magazine Index here is still non-functional.
So is the comment function below the article - I get a message to the effect of "Error connecting to commenting service". Sheesh - that kind of thing will only discourage participation here.
- PDN.
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