120 million dollars is being invested into Manitoba’s rail infrastructure in 2019 by CN.
The money is from CN’s 2019 capital investment of 3.9 billion dollars focused on enabling growth from all commodity segments, including consumer goods, grain, agricultural, forest, and energy products for all of their customers, safely and efficiently.
Manitoba will use the investment for expansion projects and maintenance.
There are two expansion projects, a new train passing siding near Nourse, east of Winnipeg and just over 10 km of double track near Exira, west of Portage la Prairie.
The money for maintenance is to replace more than 56 kilometres of rail, install about 59 thousand new railroad ties, rebuild 13 road crossings, and do maintenance work on bridges, culverts, signal systems, and other track infrastructure.
In Manitoba over the last 5 years, 700 million dollars has been invested.
