Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT

@collectifission Yah, snow get wet & heavy when it is above 0c, causing more of the "compacting under train" issues we have battled here. Then when it drops below 0c again, the water freezing does fun thing to whatever it got into. Track switch points have really suffered, and there are more of those in city areas...

We have also had a lot more rock slides lately because of water expanding and contracting around -/+0c. Highway near me was closed a long time last winter as massive rocks fell onto it. The "fun effects" of climate change

@collectifission we kunnen hier helemaal niks meer.

@collectifission also good no grandmother with her dog is waiting to cross the railway in Canada

@collectifission wow.
Impressive.
German trains can Not do this. Why? Cost reduction and fear, i guess.

@reinierl @VoxClamans @collectifission Yes, that is what I understood from this video from @notjustbikes about Canadian rail.

And that passenger trains are running on the tracks owned by the cargo train company. Cargo gets priority. The train we see here is also a cargo train.

And that as a passenger you have to 'check in' asif you are boarding a train. Ridiculous.

See https://youtu.be/n1G0Lyh3uik for example. Enjoy.

@rrustema020 Yeah, Canadian rail is all kinds of bad, barely standing above the absolute crap that is Amtrak in the US.

But at least they can blast through snow

@reinierl @VoxClamans @notjustbikes

@collectifission
Germany: We didn't put trains out at all and none got stuck in the open. Isn't that a success!?

@collectifission Canadian here - that train is hauling freight. From my limited experience as a passenger here, freight rules the rails. Our cross-Canada trip was 3 days late because we kept having to sit on laybys waiting for a freight train to rip by us at high speed. It might be worth looking at how many freight derailments happen here in Canada relative to elsewhere. In BC, annually it seems, there are usually a few significant ones.

@collectifission Canadian Trains? Careful what you wish for. There are just 3 trains a week between Halifax (population 500,000) and anywhere. The passenger carriages will soon be replaced with carriages built in the 1950's, and ViaRail proudly called that an "upgrade".

@Susan60 @collectifission yes. A passenger train hit two trucks inexplicably parked on the tracks here overnight, even _with_ visibility.