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Via Rail pondering alternative Ontario routing for suspended Canadian
Written by David Thomas, Canadian Contributing EditorAfter months of late arrivals due to track congestion on CN’s northern Ontario main line, compounded by slow orders arising from CN’s efforts to recover from two tar sands oil train explosions, Via Rail is examining an alternative routing for the Canadian,the continent’s last classic streamliner, originally Canadian Pacific’s premier luxury passenger train.