Via Rail passengers stuck on train for 24 hours as storm creates chaos across Prairie

Get out and push!

TAKO, Sask. — Bad weather and freight train problems have resulted in 154 Via Rail passengers being stranded aboard their own train in Saskatchewan for the past 24 hours.

Via Rail says its Number Two train from Vancouver to Toronto was halted early Thursday near the tiny community of Tako, about 190 kilometres west of Saskatoon.

The company says the holdup is the result of problems with one or possibly more Canadian National Railway trains down the line.

It also says the passengers have been getting food and supplies, and that they were not expected to be stranded for much longer.

Details were not immediately available on the situation with the CN rolling stock, but one media report indicated blowing snow was hampering repair crews.

Infinitely preferable to being stranded aboard someone else's train.

It must be getting stinky in coach. In Silver and Blue there are showers.

TAKO, Sask. - A Via Rail train with 154 passengers was moving again Friday after being delayed for more than a day in western Saskatchewan due to a severe spring snowstorm

They had a low speed (yard) derailment close to town here t'other day, and every goddam suit in CPR came to "make sure things got put right"

Since the management change they apparentely are micromanaging the workies to death.

These low speed derails have been a fact of life since the time of the crusades.

Glad no one froze their nuggies in Sask.