Drivers in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, are fuming about long waits at local railway crossings, but will have to stay patient, CBC News reports.
Grain trains are longer, more frequent and moving more slowly this fall.
“The trains that we're moving through Thunder Bay right now will vary from 6000 feet to 12,000 feet in length,” said Jim Feeney, director of public and government affairs for CN Rail.
“The majority will be longer. They'll be 10,000 feet, in that area.”
It means lengthy traffic holdups several times a day, as the effort to move grain into port before the Seaway shuts down for the winter is at its peak, he says.
Feeney told CBC News the trains travel more slowly - 16km an hour or less - because they are longer and for safety purposes.
“And pulling into the port, they’re going about ten miles per hour or less, and that’s just a function of the amount of cars that are heading in, it's a function of the design of the yards themselves. It is having an effect, no question.”
Normally, there is one train in and one out each day, he said, but right now there are four daily, each way.
"We've had to use every available outlet for that grain to move, and that's been good for Thunder Bay, for the port, good for CN Rail, good for farmers and for the grain companies who operate the terminals,” Feeney said.
“That being said, we understand that there is an effect on the community itself.”
The delays could last well into December, he added.
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