news from CN Rail ..today.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/cn-rail-to-spend-315-million-to-upgrade-ontario-operations-1.1106082

TORONTO — CN Rail (CNR.TO) says it plans to invest about $315 million in Ontario this year to expand and strengthen the company's rail network across the province.

The company says planned projects include upgrades at CN's intermodal terminal in Brampton northwest of Toronto — the company's largest such facility — and the construction of a new train passing siding east of Sioux Lookout

The company also plans to replace some 145 kilometres of rail, install more than 380,000 new railroad ties and rebuilds some 60 road crossing surfaces.

CN says it will also perform maintenance work on bridges, culverts, signal systems and other track infrastructure

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from a year and a half ago..

https://www.thenorthernsun.com/mixed-messages-emerging-from-ring-of-fire-road-announcement/

Published: September 6, 2017

Over the summer Sioux Lookout announced a partnership with Noront Resources, Morgan Fuels, First Mining Finance Corp., Township of Pickle Lake and CN Rail, identifying the location for a proposed Trans-load Facility to be built east of Sioux Lookout on #642.

In Pickle Lake, Hopf’s community sits at the staging area of a massive push to bring grid electricity to the far north.

“We’re trying everything we can with our economic development committee and town council,” said Hopf. “Along with the road there’s also W. Power (Wataynikaneyap) running power lines to 21 remote First Nations. Obviously those two projects going north of Pickle will have to coincide side-by-each. It wouldn’t make sense to not run a power line along the side of the road.”