ATSF854 will the tumbler ridge be available on Mac computers?

Mike Zelt Why 1000 days for the project? Seemed rushed for the terraine. Beautiful country though.

Thank you for your hard work. A most remarkable project, and one you can justifiably be proud of.

Brian Jamel and wear plaid shirts...

True lumberjacks are clean shaven.

Only a tiny part of track from quintette mine to tumbler ridge was taken out. Rest of line 70miles is still open and working. I work for cn and can varify its still goin

I meant the electrification.

Tumbler Ridge has 42 water falls!! Spatular !!!

+Jacob Tompke nope, were removed in the early 200's after the locomotives were all scrapped (all but one). now the line is mothballed

+Jacob Tompke From what I have seen, a good majority of the actual support posts are still up just with the wire rotated off to the side. No chance of them being used again though

Line is still goin. I was up there in sept n October doin rock work and brushcutting. Still hauling coal out

its all there to this day, wires and all, it's just abandoned

But BC Rail and the entire development at Tumbler Ridge were funded by the BC government, not private interests (except the coal mines). Fluctuating world coal prices killed the project.

Nothing ironic, to this day over 40% of all electricity in the USA is produced using coal.

Is it also ironic coal power plants produce electricity?

I highly doubt that it was or is a fad, as it still retains its usage in high traffic areas on the east coast and other light rail applications. As fuel costs and the price of developing zero emission locomotives rise, I'm willing to bet that high traffic freight routes will see electrification. The BN even had plans for electrification in the powder river basin but they never went through. It's worth noting that 100% electrification will probably never happen and I cant think of any countries that run electrics exclusively. The future of electrification in North America will probably be something similar to South Africa's OREX line which runs both electrics and diesels at the same time

ATSF854 they use electrics on the NEC because they infrastructure was already put in place by the PRR back in the 1900s also because cities like NYC put bans in place to prevent steam locomotives then diesel locomotives from running in the city to keep soot and smoke off the city streets and also because of the tunnels that would fill with smoke and kill people, they even tried electric power on the Virginian Railway and the N&W but it wasn't practical when the diesels locomotives became popular and more efficient

The four corners area (Black Mesa and Lake Powell) and North Western Colorado-Eastern Utah (Deseret Power RR) run all electric locos on their coal mine routes. They are E60's running at 50 kV.

The Milwaukee Road electrified their Pacific Extension over the Rockies and into Idaho for both economic and practical reasons. First, in 1910 was the great fire that devastated the timber they hoped to harvest, then followed the laws requiring oil-fired steam locomotives. The Milwaukee ran on hard (anthracite) coal out of Indiana, so suddenly they needed oil-fired steamers. But they had no oil on their route, unlike the Great Northern Railway. So they had to import it. Fully 25% of westbound tonnage was fuel. This was untenable. So, they switched to "white coal" or hydro and electric locomotives. This was a tremendous expense, but they were gambling that the Panama Canal, that on-again, off-again chimera would, if completed, be only for the us of the US Navy. Haha. Well, there went their idea of a transcontinental land-bridge. They never really recovered from that. 1974 was the year the plug was pulled. Six years later they were history.

@@billtimmons7071 Sadly this line is now history too.