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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
That’s why I think that, with that kind of ridership, it suffices to attach just one passenger train to the freight and send them down together.
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Ridership became lower as CN neglected maintenance between North Bay and Washago, more interference from freights between Washago and Toronto via Beaverton and the diversion of the passenger train once CN abandoned the route through Orillia and Barrie.
During the same time period the train was running highway 11 became 4 lanes from Huntsville to North Bay. WE seem to have money for that but not rail service.
Adding a passenger train on to a freight would add several more hours to the travel time making the train even more uncompetitive.