no longer surrounded by water
A northeast Canadian song goes, "Thank God we're surounded by water".
From time to time there have been proposals to change that. A few years ago there was talk about building a rail tunnel at the Strait of Belle Isle. I wrote that this would not be practical. The tunnel wouild be isolated from any other rail line by hundreds of miles. And they would have to ferry all the equipment by ship, which could not operate in winter. They had foolishly got rid of all rail lines in Newfoundland and most rail lines in the Maritimes.
I would build a rail line from Chicoutimi to the Belle Isle Tunnel, and then down to St. Johns. I'm not sure how it would run from Chicoutimi. It could run down the North bank of the Saguenay and then up the St Lawrence. Or it could aim for the Churchill River and Goose Bay.
This line would also have a port at Battle Harbor. From Battle Harbor I would run an island hopping ferry stopping in Greenland and Iceland. with overnight accomadations in these two places the boat would not need so many cabins and passaage would be a lot cheaper. And with the eighty mile an hour freight train to Battle Harbor, surface freight could go a lot faster then it goes now.
With a new railroad in Afghanistan, Iceland is the only developed country without a railroad. Along with the Chemin de fer de Belle, I would build the transIcelandic railroad.
A northeast Canadian song goes, "Thank God we're surounded by water".
From time to time there have been proposals to change that. A few years ago there was talk about building a rail tunnel at the Strait of Belle Isle. I wrote that this would not be practical. The tunnel wouild be isolated from any other rail line by hundreds of miles. And they would have to ferry all the equipment by ship, which could not operate in winter. They had foolishly got rid of all rail lines in Newfoundland and most rail lines in the Maritimes.
I would build a rail line from Chicoutimi to the Belle Isle Tunnel, and then down to St. Johns. I'm not sure how it would run from Chicoutimi. It could run down the North bank of the Saguenay and then up the St Lawrence. Or it could aim for the Churchill River and Goose Bay.
This line would also have a port at Battle Harbor. From Battle Harbor I would run an island hopping ferry stopping in Greenland and Iceland. with overnight accomadations in these two places the boat would not need so many cabins and passaage would be a lot cheaper. And with the eighty mile an hour freight train to Battle Harbor, surface freight could go a lot faster then it goes now.
With a new railroad in Afghanistan, Iceland is the only developed country without a railroad. Along with the Chemin de fer de Belle, I would build the transIcelandic railroad.