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Money for Agawa Canyon tour train?

Canadian National Railway (CN) and the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation are expected to make a funding announcement with the Ontario government at the Roberta Bondar provincial building, May 15.
Northern Ontario Business Staff

 
Canadian National Railway (CN) and the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation are expected to make a funding announcement with the Ontario government at the Roberta Bondar provincial building, May 15.
It could be a long awaited announcement of money and a plan to finally refurbish the aging passenger coaches of the Agawa Canyon Tour Train, considered the key tourism attraction for Sault Ste. Marie.
The future of the tour train has been in doubt and the subject of painstaking three-way negotiations involving the province, city and CN since 2007. At that time, Sault MPP David Orazietti announced a $10 million investment split between CN and the province to rebuild the coaches.
Since then the status of negotiations have been confidential to the point where tourism, political and CN officials refused comment this spring.
CN inherited the tour train when it purchased the former Algoma Central Railway line from the now defunct Wisconsin Central Railway. The province owns the passenger coaches while CN provides the locomotive power.