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A decades-old dream of moving a major rail line out of Saskatoon may have been struck a fatal blow.
Earlier this year, in a tacit acknowledgement that relocating Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s main line is unlikely, city council agreed to look at spending $93 million on three overpasses aimed at reducing congestion caused by trains rumbling through town.
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That decision came after CP and Canadian National Railway Co. rejected as unfeasible and unworkable a $589-million proposal that they share the latter’s corridor south of the city, a pitch that would have come with a new railway bridge.
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