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[quote user="enr2099"][quote user="futuremodal"] <p>Since both BNSF and CP also bid for BCRail, I expect they had contigencies to make the physical connections should they have been awarded the prize. Those contingencies would probably also work if the BC government had opted to share rail transportation service access among those entities.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>What would be in it for CN to let CP or BNSF use the North Shore Industrial line? If CP or BNSF won the operator contract for BC Rail they would either have to pay for running rights on CN's North Shore Industrial Line, interchange with CN, or build their own connection(virtually impossible considering a very large bridge would haveto be built across Burrard Inlet). </p><p>My point is CN was chosen because they are the only railway that has a direct physical connection to BC Rail and paid a buttload of money. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>The reason I think such a connection could have come about was that BCRail had a history of modern day railroad expansion. Heck, they were still punching their way north as late as the 1970's, weren't they? What's one little bridge accross to Burnaby compared to that?</p><p>Hey, if the BC government needed to they could have built a union bridge, maybe a combination rail/highway bridge to facilitate that rail connection. Don't they need another highway bridge over the narrows as well?</p>
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