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   Wayne Hines to conklin   
   Re: Lac Magentic report at long last   
   21 Aug 14 00:24:28   
   
   From: w.d.hines.unspammed@ns.sympatico.nospam.ca   
      
   On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:48:22 -0400, conklin wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Would CP  have abandoned this line had the oil business it now has?  I doubt   
   > it.  Further, this shows the problems of running a railroad with a series of   
   > cut-rate owners who pay not much attention to safety.  Short lines handling   
   > dangerous cargo result in some real issues.   
      
   I believe when CP sold the line traffic levels were considerably higher than   
   they were at the time of the Lac Megantic disaster.   
      
   gwh   
      
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