MONTREAL – Canadian National set a new weekly tonnage record for Canadian grain the week of Oct. 16, the railroad announced Monday.
CN move more than 806,000 metric tons of grain from Western Canada, eclipsing the previous record by more than 50,000 metric tons. The record, CN says, comes after CN posted its second-best September for grain movement from Western Canada, with more than 2.64 million metric tons handled.
“This performance shows what can get done when partners collaborate to create supply chain solutions to supply chain challenges,” Doug MacDonald, CN’s chief marketing officer, said in a statement. “We are very proud to have set a new record for the amount of Western Canadian grain moved in a single week. We are confident that our railroaders will continue delivering results for Canadian farmers and all of our customers.”
CN praised its engineering team for reopening a bridge in Northern Alberta little more than a week after a fire shut down a branch line in Northern Alberta [see “Bridge fire halts CN service …,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 7, 2022]. A team of employees worked around the clock to make repairs, allowing the line to reopen to grain, lumber, and other traffic.
The repairs involved 60,000 cubic yards of material, which is enough to fill 20 Olympic-size swimming pools.
Hmmm…the initial report states that this bridge was approx. 600 feet long, and 400 feet high….doesn’t seem like 60,000 cubic yards of dirt would cover this area and hold a railbed 400 feet high. Is this the actual height of the bridge, or a misprint?
The Real Agriculture website said that it’s 600 feet long and 40 feet tall. Not 400.
The wording of the report seems to indicate the bridge was replaced by a fill over a thru culvert?