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Mark Brader wrote:

I've only ever taken the train from Toronto to Vancouver once and
that was 20 years ago -- but I remember that it arrived 9 hours late.

Was there some single major factor or event that caused this? Last year I
took the _Canadian_ from Edmonton to Vancouver. When I arrived at the
station for the scheduled mid morning departure, I was told that the train
had been delayed for several hours in Saskatchewan by a huge snowstorm (in
mid May!). We finally arrived in Vancouver about six hours late, but I
had no connections there to worry about, and I got to see the Thompson and
Fraser River canyons by daylight instead of going through them in the
predawn darkness.

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Jon Bell Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA