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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Last weekend, a friend visited here. He had never seen the Canadian and wanted to see it, so we went train spotting. It was supposed to b in Capeol Station around 3am. It was over 2 hours EARLY! While that is great, I am wondering why. It is notoriously late most times, so, while this is a good thing, it makes me wonder what is so different that allows it to run early.
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It was maybe about 10 years ago that VIA decided to deal with chronically late trains by padding the Canadian's schedule to absurd lengths. So maybe on trains that manage to avoid getting shunted off to sidings for long periods of time, they might actually make it to their next stop early.
For example: Back in the early 2000s when I was going to school in Edmonton the train left Winnipeg at 5 pm and got to Edmonton 8 am the next day... pretty comparable to driving. Now it leaves at 9:30 pm and isn't scheduled to get to Edmonton until 8:50 pm the next day. A speedy driver with a fuel-efficient car and a good bladder could drive to Edmonton and back to Winnipeg in that amount of time.