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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
I will always be pessimistic and I hope I'm wrong then. But large swathes missing from a line, and odds are in remote areas where one has to be fixed before you get to the next.... it just seems daunting and much worse than just surface rail/switch replacement. Especially when bridge supports are undermined. I think back to the bridge over the bow heading into the Ogden yard that had an undermined pier as a result of the 2013 floods. That took ages to get going before they were running trains over it again.
If they can do it within a week, then I'll be damn impressed. Perhaps the motivation is greater this time since well... there is no profit if you can't run.
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CP says that they'll have the route between Kamloops and Vancouver opened tomorrow. You can be pessimistic all you like, but they're not making that kind of a statement if they don't think that they can do it.