Going to a "rubber wheel solution" will be far more expensive since road construction (there are no roads at all anywhere close to the problem area) will be extremely challenging. Maintaining a road will continue to be just as difficult as maintaining the rail line. Serving remote areas will always be costly; the railway itself has never been more than marginal for some 80-90 years but survived because it keeps the full costs of the supply chain as low as possible.
Hard to justify 20 megabucks or more to repair a 2-train-a-week railroad. I didn't check how much freight moves, but the territory isn't exactly rife with traffic zources
Maybe it's time to go to a rubber wheel solution.
Chuck
Milk prices rise as Omnitrax, Canada spar on who will pay to reconnect the railroad to a Manitoba town
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/07/26-churchill-man
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
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