SER1 Re: labrador trip

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Hi Tom,

I hadn't thought about the fact that the railroad won't take our Rovers.
That means we're looking at the Baie-Comeau/Labrador City Road which,
checking http://www.twoseasonsinn.com/en/directions.htm, doesn't look to
bad although it is long at 581km.  From the 2004 Official Highway Map of
Newfoundland and Labrador the other legs are:

Labrador City/Churchill Falls		238km
Churchill Falls/Goose Bay		288km
Cartwright/Red Bay			411km

Total road, Baie-Comeau/Blac Sablon	1518km

The ferry Goose Bay/Cartwright runs in summer (I'll have to check exactly
what that means), and does take cars.  The presumed route would be
west-to-east, placing the longest leg first.  Re the coastal boat from
Blanc Sablon to Sept Iles, it transported cars and trucks when I took it
in '95, although it's not a ferry -- the vehicles are loaded as freight in
containers.  May have changed, but I doubt it given that it's the only way
vehicles can be delivered to the outports.  It's a three day cruise.

George E Sollish	Chief Engineer		Auto Gear Equipment
			Project Manager		The Payne Lake Project

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Tom Tollefson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:53:55 -0500
> From: Tom Tollefson <tollefson@xxxxxxx.xx>
> To: George E Sollish.Ser 1 <gsollish@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: labrador trip
>
> Check out this site:  http://www.billwood.com/trains/qnsl/
> Passenger s and their cars onseperate trains (and schedules)
> Also , If you show up with a canvas topped (not lockable) vehicle they
> will smile sympathetically ansd send You away. We have tries to ship
> 27LandRovers by rail from Suffield Alberta to Toronto in 1991 and got
> nowhere for the same reason , Has to do with potential damage /
> vandalism/ theft . They are not going there.
>
> Also the ferry from sept iles to blanc sablon does not take cars, Bummer
>
> Tom
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