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[quote]QUOTE: Had this gotten to the point that school admin.s had reached into a working yard to pull in cars in interchange service out of the yard, the ramifications would be truly frightening. Perhaps some of the instructors need to go to school themselves? The spur into your school is now an island and can't reach the operating yard? [/quote] The school doesn't own any railroading equipment, the idea was to have CN deliver a few cars into our siding so we could study them and practice on the hand breaks and what not. Now that the switch is gone and CN doesn't want to pay to replace it (and the school can't afford the $50k), like I said before, CN is going to drop some cars off on the rails in their yard closest to our school. Only difference is we have to walk a little farther, and we will only get to have them around for a few days at a time, rather than a few months if they were on our own siding. Perhaps the way I explained it, it sounded like a bigger deal than it really was... the point I was trying to get across earlier was that Railroads aren't going to spend money they don't have too, simple as that. The steering committee at our school is comprised of people from CN, CP, BNSF, SRY and VIA, and our tests are administered from the RAC. In light of our missing siding, next wednesday we get to go on a field trip out the the Southern Railway of BCs yard in New Westminister to check out some switching and yard work.... it's gonna be fun.
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