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Originally Posted by GoTrans
It is not as easy as this since not all sidings are of equal length so not all freight trains will fit on a particular siding. Sometimes the crew runs out of hours and has to park the train on a siding so then the distance between sidings is doubled until a new crew is available. What we need is the older smaller sidings that were ripped out to be re-installed so the distance between sidings is shortened so at least a passenger train doesn't have to wait so long.
The other problem is that sometimes fleets of trains are dispatched one behind another which increases the waiting time for trains travelling the opposite direction.
I agree.
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The real problem is over siding trains. There are trains that operate between terminals that do not fit in any sidings. So, they must keep going.
This is why I said that the regulation needs changing. It would force trains to be shorter, or have longer sidings built, or have double track built.
This CN strike is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to real problems on the railways.