Railway Costing Regulations (SOR/80-310)

4 For the purposes of these Regulations, the variable cost of the carriage of goods referred to in section 278 of the Act shall

• (a) be calculated on the basis of carloads of 30 000 pounds in the standard railway equipment for such goods and such other weights as are required for purposes of determining a rate; and

• (b) if the goods concerned may move between points in Canada by alternative routes of two or more railway companies, be computed on the basis of the costs of the lowest cost rail route.