Great clips! The Trinity Loop express is currently at Avondale, 2km track left. I’ve had the pleasure of operating it while doing track repairs and brush cutting.
The most we got from CN was several displays of rolling stock at various communities and museums around the island plus the Trinity Loop Railway park which is now sadly closed. In the years since the railway closed a few displays have been scrapped due to vandalism and lack of interest.
@@shnorth888 I could understand why CN would've reduced service to "as needed" but scrapping the operation entirely was incredibly short sighted, I guess they were desperate to increase their profits to appeal to private investors as the Canadian government looked to privatize the railways.
@@rockguitarist931 True and the service was downgraded to a point where most shippers switched to road transport, although the privatization of CNR was still a few years off. That didn't appear until the 1994 federal budget but by getting rid of money loosing operations like the Newfoundland rail operation and PEI's railway in 1989 plus selling off non rail/transportation assets like CN Hotels and CN Telecommunications put CN in a better financial position for when the idea to privatize appeared several years later.
@@shnorth888 Many rail displays have been destroyed since the closure, breaks my heart. My friend and I volunteered at Avondale for several years and helped get the place noticed. Currently I’m on the board of the Railway Coastal Museum in Water Street, it shouldn’t be a struggle to preserve our heritage but it is. The Trinity Loop still has massive potential, unfortunately the government has been making it extraordinarily difficult to make any progress.
There was an effort by former St. John’s mayor John Murphy to preserve the line from St. John’s to Holyrood, running excursion trains. So many people today say it would have been great, and with how much the area has developed it could have even worked as a commuter train. Seems like CN had everything sold and did everything possible to make sure the railway was erased, purely political.
Great clips! The Trinity Loop express is currently at Avondale, 2km track left. I’ve had the pleasure of operating it while doing track repairs and brush cutting.
They should've preserved a little bit of it as a heritage railway, at least.
The most we got from CN was several displays of rolling stock at various communities and museums around the island plus the Trinity Loop Railway park which is now sadly closed. In the years since the railway closed a few displays have been scrapped due to vandalism and lack of interest.
@@shnorth888 I could understand why CN would've reduced service to "as needed" but scrapping the operation entirely was incredibly short sighted, I guess they were desperate to increase their profits to appeal to private investors as the Canadian government looked to privatize the railways.
@@rockguitarist931 True and the service was downgraded to a point where most shippers switched to road transport, although the privatization of CNR was still a few years off. That didn't appear until the 1994 federal budget but by getting rid of money loosing operations like the Newfoundland rail operation and PEI's railway in 1989 plus selling off non rail/transportation assets like CN Hotels and CN Telecommunications put CN in a better financial position for when the idea to privatize appeared several years later.
@@shnorth888 Many rail displays have been destroyed since the closure, breaks my heart. My friend and I volunteered at Avondale for several years and helped get the place noticed. Currently I’m on the board of the Railway Coastal Museum in Water Street, it shouldn’t be a struggle to preserve our heritage but it is. The Trinity Loop still has massive potential, unfortunately the government has been making it extraordinarily difficult to make any progress.
There was an effort by former St. John’s mayor John Murphy to preserve the line from St. John’s to Holyrood, running excursion trains. So many people today say it would have been great, and with how much the area has developed it could have even worked as a commuter train. Seems like CN had everything sold and did everything possible to make sure the railway was erased, purely political.