2 April 2007
Cisco - Before and After
Before: At Cisco, British Columbia, CPR and CN are connected by track that
drops down 2 percent to the CPR mainline below. Here's a CN train climbing the Cisco connector back in 2006. This
rarely used track came into prominence last summer when a CPR coal train derailed on the CN Thompson River Bridge at
Lytton destroying the deck and closing the CN line for 8 days. Rerouted trains used this connector as a bypass but
the track had been neglected so long that a CN grain train derailed on this curve tumbling down onto the CPR
mainline below, blocking all use of the Fraser Canyon route - 3 Aug 2006 Ken Storey.
After: Here's
a recent look at the Cisco connector after extensive work was put into rebuilding it. It appears to have been used
lately, possibly due to all the mudslides in the canyons - 28 Mar 2007 Ken
Storey.
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