Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway

The Breton Cape and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS) is a railroad of 392 kilometers (245 miles) operative in Nova Scotia between Sydney and Truro with small lines in Sydney, Port Hawkesbury/Point Tupper, Trenton and Stellarton.

The line (and small relative lines) were formerly had by the railroad Canadian National and were sold with the Holding of lines short RailTex in October, 1993, which made the CBNS one of the first short lines of Canada be acquired of a railroad of class I. on February 4th, 2000, RailTex, including CBNS, was bought by RailAmerica for 325.000.000 million US dollars.

The route of CBNS crosses the landscape various and beautiful extending from the fields, the mixed forests and the valleys of river consisted the Appalachian mountains, to the Détroit of Canso (it crosses on the Chaussée of Canso) and to various admissions of the Golfe of the St. Lawrence. On the Island of Cape-Breton the, the line functions close to the spectacular lake Lac of the gold Arm.

The line exchanges with the Sydney Coal Railway, formerly the railroad of Devco, in Sydney, and with CN with Truro. Sorting offices are maintained in Sydney, North Sydney, Point Tupper, Le Havre Butcher, Stellarton, and Truro.

The customers include two mills with paper and pulp and a factory of tire Michelin, two power stations of electricity to coal, a factory of natural gas liquefication, a large factory of railway goods wagons of freight, and several smaller shippers including/understanding the local contractors of sylviculture. The traffic fell clearly at the end from the east from the railroad following closing from steel-works and several coal mines close to Sydney. CBNS currently required to give up this section of its line.

The passenger train of VIA Rail for tourists weekly seasonal worker of Halifax-Sydney of the rail, the Gold Arm, actuated over the whole length of the CBNS, in addition to the railway network of CN between Halifax and Truro, of 2000 to 2004. Because of the possible abandonment of the part of the east of the network of CBNS, VIA Rail suspended the service at the beginning of 2005. In September 2005 the government of Nova Scotia announced that it would provide to the CBNS a subsidy of 10 million dollars to keep the line of rail of Hawkesbury Port in open Sydney during the 5 years to come.

Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway

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