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   Clark F Morris   wrote:   
   >On 31 Dec 2016 13:31:27 -0500, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)   
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>We were driving west on Highway 138 in Quebec about a week ago, maybe   
   >>20 minutes east of Mont Sainte Anne, and saw something very odd -- a   
   >>convoy of 4 heavy haul trucks each carrying a brand-new (or newly   
   >>repainted), short hopper car with CN markings.   
   >>   
   >>There's a rail line that goes as far as La Malbaie, and supposedly it   
   >>does have freight customers, but it's not used in the winter.  Aside from   
   >>that, is there any rail on the north shore of the St. Lawrence east of   
   >>Quebec City at all?   
   >>   
   >>I'm at a bit of a loss where these could have been going, and why.   
   >   
   >There is the ore mine railroad serving a mine in Labrador with a   
   >terminus at Sept Iles.   
      
   I was wondering about that.  Wikipedia says it's completely disconnected   
   from the rest of the North American rail network (was it always?) so it   
   would have to receive new cars by road.  Odd they'd be freshly painted   
   with CN markings, though!   
      
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