Not enough time yet?

9 Replies to “Not enough time yet?”

1. The typical newer railroad grain cars hold around 100 tonnes of grain, or 223,000 pounds. The train can haul 134 of those cars.

   The typical highway semi can carry maybe 90,000 pounds, much less than half the grain car. My humble calculations say it would take 332 B-train trucks to haul the grain of one train.

   1. Exactly.

      1. I was just walking along the Bow R in Calgary and the first train rumbled by …. a big one well over 100 cars. So at least the back to work order is being obeyed (so far).
         Lets hope they get an agreement they can both live with.
         My dad once told me a good / fair deal is when both parties feel they gave too much!!

2. “My humble calculations say it would take 332 B-train trucks to haul the grain of one train.

   Sanford Fleming was a weight supremacist.

   1. Booooo!

   2. Well, he was a man of his time.

3. The biggest issue is that the government changed the hours of service regulations back in May of 2023, and now the companies want the agreements to reflect that. The union doesn’t, because free money.

   There are of course other issues and proposals involved.

4. Since the demise of steam locomotives the spur/ branch lines soon followed, along with the tracks, never to go back. Hence the X canada trail, whoopee.
   Super terminals replaced the wood prairie sentinal in every village, pueblo, town.
   There’s more grain hauled by truck than ever before too.

5. We need a right-to-work law, making membership in unions optional. Half the states in the US have right-to-work. You know, the ones where all the jobs are.