By Eric Atkins, Railway Industry Reporter, The Globe and Mail; November 9, 2017
No roads link Churchill, Man., with places to the south. For decades, the town 1,000 kilometres north of Winnipeg has relied on the railway to bring food, fuel and jobs over the tundra to the shores of Hudson Bay.
But springtime flooding that wiped out railroad bridges and tracks have gone unrepaired amid an escalating dispute between the Hudson Bay Railway owner and governments, leaving Churchill, population 900, dependent on airplanes. Prices for fuel and food have soared, and about 100 railway jobs are gone, adding to mounting hardships in a region hit by port and mine closings and dwindling rail freight.
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