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[quote user="beaulieu"] [quote user="Murphy Siding"]     Paper was the bulk of WC traffic?  If CN bought WC to provide a conduit for traffic directly from Duluth to Chicago, why wasn't WC able to attract this traffic in quantity? [/quote]   Yes, paper was a big part of WCL traffic. Of course they had some miscellaneous other traffic, like the roofing granules out of Kremlin, WI, plus feedstocks into the paper mills. Their other big traffic was the Iron Ore traffic. They had the "All-Rail" trains from Duluth, but that traffic is possible to divert and CN didn't do as good a job as WCL did, BNSF was able to win more of that traffic. Also the amount of that traffic has fallen as the RR have raised their rates, the mining companies made a greater effort to get enough supply moved during the shipping season by lake boats. CN overhead traffic has been affected by two factors, congestion in Chicago, and big decreases in the movment of building materials(lumber), Potash, and Molten Sulphur. CN (with the purchase of BC Rail) is the biggest mover of lumber out of Canada, so they are affected move by the drop in that traffic. CN had hoped to build up Intermodal from Prince Rupert to make up for some of that drop, but the severe recession has slowed that traffic as well. [/quote] I remember the deal WC had with SP there for a while for the shipment of iron ore and coal (ore going south and coal north - wasn't that the deal?).  I even snapped a couple photos of an all SP-powered northbound unit train at Neenah, WI that I saw during one of my many bar-hopping forays to Appleton (oh those screwdrivers they made at Cleo's - what a recipe for a hangover).
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