Slow orders at CN railway crossings are not the only slowdowns encountered by VIA trains On the way home from a meeting I had in Ottawa on Sunday, May 3, I was aboard VIA Train 647, which left Ottawa Station at 4:51 PM. Our train was held up twice in the first hour: once at Smiths Falls, where we had to wait just under ten minutes for a CPKC freight train to pass, and again at Jasper, where we sat on a siding for about five minutes for an Ottawa…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.