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<DIV><FONT size=2>Why not use the railroad (CN) from Prince Rupert, BC to
Edmonton via Valemount & Jasper? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Or the Yellowhead Highway, for that matter. With a
couple of off-loads, that highway ought work. It's been a few years since
I drove from Prince Rupert to Jasper, but I can't remember any real obstructions
save some railroad overhead bridges that could be off-loaded
around.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kmmos1@verizon.net href="mailto:kmmos1@verizon.net">Ken</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:06
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Cool!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Wednesday 21 July 2010 09:46:06 Tom Hansen wrote:<BR>>
Probably the most awesome piece of engineering you will see this year . .
.<BR>> <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFE8nmKpmXY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFE8nmKpmXY</A><BR><BR>Very
interesting. Considering the rate at which northern Idaho highways have
<BR>been being widened from goat trail status to actual modern,
safely-passable <BR>highways, one wonders whether two-lane railroads could be
built faster. <BR>Parallel dual tracks, with appropriate sidings for switching
and other train <BR>management, from the Idaho-Canadian border to Moscow,
Lewiston, and on down <BR>to Boise, would go a substantial way toward
increasing economic activity <BR>between Canada and the port of Lewiston, and
better integrating the economies <BR>and the cultures of northern and southern
Idaho.<BR><BR>Were such railways in place now, there likely would be no need
for Exxon to be <BR>asking for extraordinary permissions to move
earth-destruction machinery <BR>through scenic Idaho. By the way, that thought
does raise the question: "Why <BR>isn't Exxon asking to move its needed stuff
by trans-Canada railway from <BR>Canada's eastern coast? Yes, Canadian
passenger travel might be disrupted for <BR>a time, but Exxon could compensate
for that, too.<BR><BR>No, I don't foresee Sandpoint being a bedroom community
for University <BR>professors anytime soon, but were such a dual pairing of
tracks and passenger <BR>service in place, there isn't a timing reason why
that could not be the
case.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR> List
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