Here are additional articles - including links within that posted, regarding The Canadian. They certainly suggest the "bloom is off the rose":
https://globalnews.ca/news/6591508/via- ... e-canadian
Now what follows is heresy to some, but it represehts a bowing to reality.
Scrap the timetable and just say there will be eight departures in each direction monthly. The departures would simply be identified as, say, the fourth Westward departure during April, as #1(4)IV. Passengers would then book whichever was closest to their intended departure date. This noted departure would leave Toronto during the four day range of April 12. Passengers would be notified by text, email, or robocall, as the train progressed Westward perfecting its station arrival time as it went.
So far as the CN is concerned, it is simply a "Passenger Extra".
Crazy I know, but at least there would never be a late train again!
https://globalnews.ca/news/6591508/via- ... e-canadian
Now what follows is heresy to some, but it represehts a bowing to reality.
Scrap the timetable and just say there will be eight departures in each direction monthly. The departures would simply be identified as, say, the fourth Westward departure during April, as #1(4)IV. Passengers would then book whichever was closest to their intended departure date. This noted departure would leave Toronto during the four day range of April 12. Passengers would be notified by text, email, or robocall, as the train progressed Westward perfecting its station arrival time as it went.
So far as the CN is concerned, it is simply a "Passenger Extra".
Crazy I know, but at least there would never be a late train again!