New hope for Cape Breton’s rusting rails
Complete grade rail from Truro to Sydney pegged at $130 million
Cape Breton Post / 13 July 2020 / Ted Bartlett, President, Transport Action Atlantic.
CONTRIBUTED There have been no train whistles heard at the Orangedale station in nearly five years.
It’s now been nearly five years since the final whistle sounded at Orangedale, as the Genesee and Wyoming shortline railway company ran its last freight train over the Sydney Subdivision. The rails have continued to rust, ties are deteriorating, and the roadbed is being compromised by unrepaired washouts – despite monthly maintenance payments by Nova Scotia’s taxpayers.