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UNITED STATES Donnybrook Foxholm Rugby Berthold MINOT York Churchs Ferry Devil’s Lake Transforming the Prairies
Map illustration by Otto M. Vondrak ©2013 Carstens Publications, Inc. Not an official map. Not all routes and stations shown.
Guthrie Otake Kenmare Lansford Wolford MANITOBA
NORTH DAKOTASouris Mohall
Omemee NPR (SOO) Cando Roila Holmfield Luxton CANADA Napinka CP MILES KILOMETERS 10 10 20 20 30 40 30 Souris Schwitzer CN Kelso Virden Kemnay Brandon CN/CP Xing
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ABOVE LEFT: Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western 6941 is westbound on the Whitetail Line passing an oil well at Lignite, N.D., on September 12, 2012. ABOVE RIGHT: A forklift unloads fracking sand from a boxcar at Mohall, N.D., on October 2, 2011. ABOVE: Tanker trucks line up at a “team track” oil transload at Willmar, Saskatchewan, on September 19, 2012.
ed north, they were staged so that northbound (timetable west) CP runs could pick them up easily. Given the ex- pansion currently underway at Stam- pede, trains will
likely “be needed”
much more often. They will probably also get longer than 80 cars and speed
limits are likely to rise.
Next it was on to Canada to hook up with Les and Bern at Brandon, Manito- ba. In our week together we found four crude oil loading facilities. The most in- teresting of these is the Crescent Point Transload located at Stoughton, (pro-
nounced STOUTton) Saskatchewan. Stoughton was once a junction of a CP line from near Souris, Manitoba, to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and the Ty- van Sub to Regina. The Souris-Wey- burn line through town was gone by 1996 and the 87-mile Tyvan Sub was
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