Nova Scotia Day 2: The Ocean Day 2

The second day aboard train number 14 the Ocean, started off quite eventfully. I woke up around 5:30am to the emergency brakes going off. I didn't really think much of it and figured that we had stopped due to a broken-down freight train in front of us. Instead, it turns out part of the rail was broken in half. This meant that we could not move forwards, or backwards because we might derail. So after a very long wait and a lot of back and forth between CN and VIA, they decide to move all the passengers to the back half of the train and try to move the front half of the train over the broken rail at 1km/h. This worked, which meant that once the first half went over the broken rail, the train stopped, all of the passengers moved to the front of the train and we moved the back half of the train over the fractured rail at 1km/h. After that eventful morning, we finally got moving again around 12:30pm. This was about a 7.5-hour delay which meant we did not get into Halifax until 3:30-4Am in the morning.

We were stuck at Amqui Quebec for about 7.5 hours, due to a broken rail under the train.

Looking at the curve of the train in Bathhurst New Brunkswick.

The leading engine, 6419 was behind it.

One of the few times you actually see the ocean aboard the Ocean.

Another view of the ocean around Petit-Rocher New Brunswick.

A sighting of a covered bridge.

The breakfast menu

The Crepes I got.

The inside of the service car, that joins the Renaissance fleet with the HEP fleet.

Renaissance coach class.

HEP coach class

A HEP bedroom in its daytime configuration

The service car

The fish and chips I had for lunch that I forgot to take a photo of until halfway through.

The menu for lunch

Carrot cake for dessert

Seafood chowder as a starter.

Due to the delay we got St Huberts chicken for dinner in Moncton.

A brief station stop in Moncton

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