[eternallyme]

They should be barred from triple-tracking (unless moving passenger service onto a dedicated line) and forced to move operations back onto the Ottawa Valley line. There is not nearly enough development potential to warrant keeping the line for short-line use though, especially since it ends in Smiths Falls which is quite pointless.

Without such a move the section from Sudbury to North Bay should be saved at least though, for a potential passenger rail corridor (combined with the HCR to Sault Ste. Marie), and purchased by Ontario Northland. East of North Bay, I don't see any reason to save it as I don't see passenger rail ever returning other than for commuter purposes into the Ottawa Valley.