Athabasca Northern Railway

The Athabasca Northern Railway (ANY) was a railway company in the Canadian province of Alberta. Your 325 km long distance combined with Boyle Fort McMurray. It belonged to 2007, the Cando Contracting Limited. The route was to be decommissioned in December 2007, as the superstructure is in poor condition. The train but was purchased by the Canadian National (CN) for 25 million U.S. dollars. A connection to the CN consists in Boyle.

The railway line Boyle Fort McMurray was operated by 1925-1981 from the merged into the CN Northern Alberta Railways. In 2000, the Cando Contracting Limited bought the car.

The web opens up important oil sands fields to be exploited. CN is therefore planning to invest 135 million U.S. dollars into the web. Important customers, including OPTI- Nexen and Suncor in Lynton, new contracts have closed with CN. The current traffic would not be sufficient for the receipt of the web. CN serves the route for some time.

The ANY had three cars with EMD GP- 9RM in use.