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With only
two trains per day - trains you can hear for miles before they arrive -
pedestrians ignore the signs.
The crews who work the Esquimalt
and Nanaimo have little respect for the corporate parent, Rail America.
The employees say the company's disregard for freight shippers has doomed
the line. The locomotives working to the north are in such bad condition,
they say, work which normally requires a single locomotive may now require
two or three.
In late 2002, Rail America
is threatening to close the line, ending freight and passenger service
on the line. |
