A& - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 2000 Front front Railway visionary eyes dream route to Russia Broadbent left BC Rail in 1993, bought a railway supply company, made big money, and then sold off his interests so he could pursue the arctic railway. His New Westminster- based company only has 10 employees tow, but Broadbent says he will be- gin construction in four years — he’s sure of it. “Yes, it’s going to happen,” he says. For . starters, the Alaskans (politicians as well as rail- road barons) are really pushing for him to meet them at the Yukon border, he explains. For another, the people of the north are living on welfare, and need industry to get them back on their feet. “They're sitting on probably some of the rich- est resources on earth and yet everybody's living on welfare.” The first phase of his arctic rail systern will take a decade, Broadbent says, It will include lines from Dease Lake to White- horse, and from Fort Nel- son to Dawson Creek, with three cross-connectors (one to Hazelton) and, of course, a line from White- horse west to the Alaska border, connecting with a line somewhere in the. Beaver Creek area, Today BC Rail operates an industrial rail service on about 440 kilometres of its Takla subdivision, reaching to a remote rail- head called Minaret atthe headwaters of the Skeena River. The line hauls out timber for contractors and concentrate from the Kem- ess copper-gold mine. While BC Rail is aware of the trans-Siberian con- nection scheme, it has no plans to complete the ex-. tension. lo ‘Dease. Lake: be-. cause in-all likelihood the... revenue it would produce couldn’t justify the huge investment, said BC: Rail spokesman Allan Dever. “We don’t have an. es- timate of what it. would cost, but it wouldn't be cheap,” he said. “We’re a long way from Dease wl nies: THE RAILWAY TRACKS that now stop short of | Dease Lake could run all the way to Siberia if a Ca- nadian financier and railroad visionary has his way. Lake.” As for the cost of a line from Dease Lake to Alas- ka, Broadbent says it would vary depending on mental data along the pro- posed routes, all of which have already been sur- veyed to some extent, In the long term, he’s planning a three-phase project that will take 20 to " 30 years, a network of rail- ; roads across the’ western and eastern arctic with communities established every 150 or sa miles along the track. So that brings us back to the Jess humble idea of the Bering Strait Tunnel Project, which Broadbent says could likely happen . but only after the Cana- dian Arctic Railway and an even more ambitious railroad across Alaska. “We've got a lot of oth- er things to do before we can focus on the tunnel,” he said. Earlier this year he talked with the chamber of commerce in the Alaskan port town of Fairbanks. “We're pressing them ta get their side of it done,” he said. And at the same time, an Alaskan senator was expected this fall to have meetings with the Cana- dian business community in Victoria and Whitehorse to discuss different ‘scenarios for the railroad. And David Cohoe says he can raise the $50 bil- lion for the tunnel, thanks in part to his family’s common holding company. “This railway project will have the same effect at the end of the century that the Panama Canal had at the beginning of the century,” Cohoe, said. “economics,” anywhere from $400 million to $1.5 billion, for a top-of-the-line railroad. Funding will come entirely from the pri- vate sector, from a variety of sources including risk investors and oil compa- Hoa dua oe are oe ad . .In. the. short. term, his infest main concerns are settling environmental and aborigi- nal issues. For the latter, @ aN THT Att TOURISM... ..., | « WINTER ‘IN: THE NORTHWES skling with scenery to die forl and Tell Your Family. ° at _ Ve te Tit King Funan ta Trontpand . : LIVER eCaale Hl Society. . FOUNDATION Recycle Yours elf. Decide to Bean Organ Donor _ BC Branch |: oe . 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