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IC 1012 holds clear of the identified helicopter landing area at Robinson as several employees who are part of the Derailment Response have just arrived having departed the designated staging area in Sioux Lookout 15-20 minutes earlier. It will be a full day for the Pilots flying employees and contractors to and from the site of the 29 car derailment at the east siding switch Robinson which happened the previous day. By 2100h the derailed cars will have been cleared to the side, track structure reinstated, signal system made functional and trains will be moving through the site.
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Caption: IC 1012 holds clear of the identified helicopter landing area at Robinson as several employees who are part of the Derailment Response have just arrived having departed the designated staging area in Sioux Lookout 15-20 minutes earlier. It will be a full day for the Pilots flying employees and contractors to and from the site of the 29 car derailment at the east siding switch Robinson which happened the previous day. By 2100h the derailed cars will have been cleared to the side, track structure reinstated, signal system made functional and trains will be moving through the site.

Photographer:
Terry O'Shell [127] (more) (contact)
Date: 02/14/2009 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: IC1012 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Robinson, Allanwater Sub. Mile 108.10 (search)
City/Town: Robinson (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. First954
    February 14, 2023 at 2:33 pm

    Fabulous photo of rare railroad activity.

  2. awmooney
    February 14, 2023 at 8:23 pm

    Just when we think we have seen it all !!

  3. sdfourty
    February 14, 2023 at 10:23 pm

    …trains and planes and…er..helicopter, real neat capture…and the fellows, just another day at the ‘office’…no expense too rich to get the line re-opened !
    sdfourty

  4. Stephen C. Host
    February 15, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    This is very cool. I did something very similar in 2017 but not for the same remote reasons :)

    http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=31000

    The rails here are now dormant.
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