Central Manitoba Railway

The Central Manitoba Railway (reporting mark CEMR) is a Canadian shortline railway operating in the province of Manitoba.

Central Manitoba Railway

Legend Pine Falls Sub 67.5 Pine Falls 66.4 Manitoba Paper Spur 65.9 McCarl 53.3 Stead 41.1 End of Track (May 2013) 24 East Selkirk 23.1 Manitoba Hydro Spur 22.4 Brainerd 17.1 Gonor 10.2 Manlius North Transcona Yards 4.1 Pine Jct CP Keewatin Sub Griffin Canada/Transcona 0.2 Peters 0 Beach Jct CN Reddit Sub Carman Sub 0 Carman Jct CN Carman Sub 13.3 Sanford 21.8 Brunkild 25.4 Mollard 30.1 Sperling 37.2 Homewood to Elm Creek 43.6 Carman 50.5 Graysville

CEMR was created in 1999 by Cando Contracting Ltd^[1] to purchase the former CN Pine Falls and Carman subdivisions. They use three ex-CN GP9rm's (GR-418a, b or c) locomotives, and run trains twice weekly on the Pine Falls and Carman subdivisions (Pine Falls sub 67 miles (108 km), Carman sub 51 miles (82 km)). They run five days a week (weekdays) in the Norcran Industrial Area in North Transcona. They purchased a former CPR yard that was built in 1887–9 and built a new shop-house and diesel repair facility. They also repair cars for other railways.

They run on 115 & 132 pound per yard (50 kg/m) rail on the Carman sub, and 85 pound per yard (42 kg/m) light rail on the Pine Falls sub, one of the few light rail branches existing in Manitoba.

Livery: A black top and bottom broken by red and white stripes down the middle with the CEMR "bison" logo and a larger grey stripe and large white engine numbers on the sides..

Gallery

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  CEMR in the Evening by the Transcona Bioreserve

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  CEMR GP9rm 4002 at Transcona Yard

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  Pine Junction before the CPR Keewatin Mainline sub

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  CEMR GP9's at Transcona Yard

References

External links

• Central Manitoba Railway: official website
• Traingeek's page on Central Manitoba Railway