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Posted by Fred M Cain on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:29 AM

Overmod

I give the 'scare' no more than a few extra months (which in my uncredentialed but I think knowledgeable opinion should be no more than weeks) before it will have run its effective course, and 'tourism' to northern points becomes thinkable again as a non-stranding risk.  

 

 
Overmod,
 
Yeah, I'm not sure about this either but I strongly suspect you're probably right.  My best guess is that once the fear of the coronavirus starts to ebb just a bit, the news media will simply move on to the next crisis.
 
As far as the news media is concerned, someone once quipped, "Bad news is GOOD news and good news is NO news".
 
Regards,
Fred M. Cain
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Posted by NDG on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:06 PM
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:15 AM

They look like shrunken SD45's with the cab from a BQ23-7.  They would look quite at home on EFVM (meter-gauge) in Brazil, especially when lashed up with a DDM45.

The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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Posted by MidlandMike on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:19 PM

NDG

Nice photo showing the abandoned cantilever bridge.

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Posted by NDG on Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:29 AM
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Posted by NDG on Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:29 AM
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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, March 27, 2020 11:08 AM

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by blhanel on Friday, March 27, 2020 8:51 PM

Wow, a real nostalgia trip.  My wife and I rode from Skagway to just beyond the border and back in late May 2016.  One of the best train rides I've ever been on.

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, March 27, 2020 9:23 PM

blhanel
Wow, a real nostalgia trip.  My wife and I rode from Skagway to just beyond the border and back in late May 2016.  One of the best train rides I've ever been on.

Right of way had too much green within the borders of the roadbed for my taste.  Saw a pile of two of replaced ties, would have like to have seen more.  With the WP&Y being a predominately passenger carrier they need to maintain the track structure a higher standard than I viewed.

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, March 28, 2020 9:12 AM

Yeah, the condition of the ROW surprised me, too; I don't remember it that way.  Of course I didn't spend much time looking down, and we didn't go all the way to Carcross.

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Posted by lenzfamily on Saturday, March 28, 2020 9:39 PM
Bennett to Carcross doesn't see nearly as much traffic as Skagway to Bennett, hence the greenery on the ROW in many places i expect. I also noticed there were 14 cars of new ties sitting on a passing track north of Bennett which I assume are to be used in replacement. There also appeared to be gaps between sections of ties which led me to think they would be filled by the 'stored' ties. Willi Schleffler the Canadian Subdivision Roadmaster, may have had a plan. Track speed there is also 25mph max. If you wanted to see bad track you should have been around in the 70's to early 80's. Even this ROW now is a whole lot better. Charlie Chilliwack, BC
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Posted by kgbw49 on Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:31 AM

Lord help them if they dump several carloads of tourists into that lake with that level of roadbed maintenance.

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