Posted on 06/30/2019 6:50:56 AM PDT by KC_Lion
Edited on 06/30/2019 7:17:04 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The Alaska Railroad Corp. and Alberta Railway Development Corp. have agreed pursue a 1,500-mile rail connection, the Alaska Railroad's Board of Directors announced in a press release on Thursday.
The agreement calls for the two corporations to apply for right-of-way guaranteed under state law for a rail connection into Canada. It also calls for identifying work needed to upgrade existing facilities, bridges and track on the 512-mainline running from Seward to North Pole.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktva.com ...
Will they use Chinese laborers or Irish?
Alaska Ping!
Another Story here: (Link) Alaska Railroad pens agreement on rail connection to Lower 48
I’m not a Willie Green but I always liked trains.
Around the first of the month I treated myself to engine compartment ride on the Great Smoky Railroad. A birthday present for myself.
I finally saw a lot of the trip to my former grandparent’s place from the other side of the Nantahala gorge.
I wonder how the character of Alaska will change because of this?
well that’s a waste of money
Whoops!
> $13 billion
Multiply that several times.
Alaska Railroad was in dire financial straights a few years ago. This should(sadly) finish them off. The only way this is viable is if they can beat the time it takes the barges to run between Seattle and Anchorage and still beat the cost of the sea route.
Corporations ask American taxpayers for another corporate welfare plan.
That’s only $8.7 million per mile. Not bad. Here in Oregon we just completed a two lane “bypass” around Newberg and Dundee (4 miles long) for a penny pinching price of $300,000,000. That was after studying the problem since the 1960’s.
Just amazing to me that all the previous roads in the state were built with $0.05 per gallon gas tax and 1/10th of the cars. It’s so bad here that even our RINOs had to leave the state to avoid a vote on a crippling carbon tax bill.
The trains may possibly beat the time, (if they don’t lose the cargo) but they can never beat the price.
Maybe they can ask the California Train experts to help manage their budget
In the lower states it takes Union Pacific 26-30 days to move a car from Houston to Sacramento on the lowest price structure - pathetic.
The main thing with train line construction is to steal taxpayers’ money and give it to construction unions. Build it with no subsidies if it such a great deal. It sounds like yet another ripoff of the taxpayers.
Well they played the high speed rail in Kalifornia to the max and they need another project.
Good deal now we can send the illegals to Canada and not our states.
Arabs, just like Kazakhstan...
Took a trans-Canada rail trip (Vancouver to Toronto) with my dad and son it was great!
I would support this if it represented a move to electric railways in North America.
I would also like to see some 4th generation nuclear power plants along the right of way to bring the energy of the future along with one of the main transportation systems of the future.
And while I am not so sure about CO2 emissions, this is the way to generate electric power and Electric cars can use it too.
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