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Funny how 10 years previous, the provincial Conservative government tried to kill it and sell off the ONR. Politics. Funny stuff.
You’re so right. Our money and their ideas fly all over the place, but nothing ever comes of anything.
They have tried at least three times to kill the ONR. The killing of the Northlander was the last attempt and that’s all they managed to change at that time.
The main sticking point is the union agreements. Employees hired before mid 1996 were guaranteed 21 years of pay until pension age if they were let go, and 10 years for employees hired after (until around 2001) when the new employees have a standard contemporary employment agreement).
The financial and pension liabilities were huge and it killed the deal a few years ago.
Once these liabilities are gone, all it will take is the right government and the railway will be sold. Could be a while, could be less – government has to buy out the union first or wait for most under those agreements to retire.
Then CN will swoop in and say ‘mine’ – here’s some money. Bye!
Very nice Arnold. Only problem with the new Northlander schedule, when the new train sets start running,passengers won’t see this as the will be passing this site in the middle of the night. Thanks for sharing.
Stephen, five years makes a big difference. It’s not “bye-bye” ONR, it’s bye-bye CN ! In today’s constantly changing world, difficult to predict what “might happen” in 5 years time, but with the acquisition of CN’s Newmarket Sub, the ONR looks more certain than ever.
You’re certainly right about the ever changing world, John. It kinda makes us want to hang around and see what happens!!!
As far as the ONR, yes, I noted the schedule really not favour the Northern Railfan a lot of the way.
I guess we will have to hope that the ONR, like VIA, is “fashionably late”.
Cheers!