They waited and waited, and then they waited some more.
Ticket holders at Saskatoon's VIA Rail station were tired, cold and downright miserable as they stood by for their passenger train to pull into the station. It eventually arrived, with 176 passengers on board, more than 12 hours behind schedule.
"It took 15 hours to go 200 miles," said Melanie Morel, moments after getting off the train. Morel and her young daughter left Melville at 8 p.m. Monday evening. She was meeting her mother, Maria Krause, in Saskatoon before riding the rails on to Vancouver. Their train sat idle for 10 hours between Melville and Watrous.
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Mark Meyer
Over in Fred Frailey's blogs he has a recent one called Two Trains; Two Different Outcomes, where he talks about the troubles CN is having on their Winnipeg-Edmonton line.
I have copied a bit of a post I wrote on June 29, 2012 at the time of EHH's appointment to the CPR:
"At one point Pershing Square Management announced that one of its' proposals was a co-production agreement with CN along the Winnipeg-Edmonton corridor. This led to comments on Canadian forums that EHH's former employer may need such an agreement as bad as PSM says CP does. CN may have one of the best engineered lines in North America on this segment, as has been observed elsewhere. But predecessor Grand Trunk Pacific built it as a single track line, including some of the largest railway bridges in Canada, And now there is one of those ACME 16-ton anvils hanging over CN's head as regards the cost of needed double-tracking of their route."
There is a lot of work to do and who is going to pay for it.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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