Holy customer service batman!
I made an operational suggestion and they implemented it! P512 won't be held for the start of construction any longer.
Details here:
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Technical details are easy:
For most of June, there has been work on track 1 between CP 11 and CP 21. Dispatchers handed over that stretch to the work crew starting at 9 AM, after the last official inbound "rush hour" train cleared CP 11.
This created a stretch of 10 miles of single track, when both outbound P507 and inbound P512 were supposed to be in that stretch. Under normal schedule conditions, outbound P507 reaches CP 11 a few minutes before P512 reaches CP 21. In what I guess is simply a matter of 'first come, first served," P507 would get the single track first, delaying P512 15-20 minutes. I've never understood that decision - under the old schedule, the P507 equivalent time train would have 56 passengers while the P512 equivalent time train would have 237 passengers. Shouldn't P512 always have been getting priority since it has more passengers? i made that comment back in June but not sure it got any traction.
Now we got a great resolution for the P512 passengers!