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On Easter Sunday, the first passenger trains passed through the site of Thursday's derailment at Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. Until then, according to a Via press release, Via was using bus substitution between Moncton and Halifax. The Sunday CBC television news showed the dining car Wascana, which had been bent almost 90 degrees, being scrapped on site. It would appear the rest of the derailed cars suffered relatively minor damage.
Via intends to use two dining cars on each set of the "Canadian" this summer season. Of the original 18 CPR diners, only 13 remain. Three were never converted to HEP, one was "retired" after the Biggar, Sask. wreck in 1997, and now this one in N.S.
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I'm taking that train on the 29th as part of my trip from Halifax to Vancouver. I'm assuming by then everything will be back to normal?
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