Is it an earthquake?!

ByThe Skeptical Traveler

I think it was around 6 AM and the room was literally shaking. Initially I thought it was an earthquake, but Manitoba is not California, so it couldn’t be an earthquake I reasoned.

Then I realized, it was a freight train going by. It was like that scene from ‘My Cousin Vinnie’ when Joe Pesci wakes up in the middle of the night because of the train.The image shows a view from a higher vantage point, looking down at a train with several freight cars on a railway track. The train is passing through an area with grass on either side of the tracks. In the background, there is a large commercial building with a parking lot and a few cars. A utility pole is also visible in the foreground.

The image shows a view from above of two freight train cars on parallel tracks. One train car is green, and the other is white. In the background, there is a parking lot with a few cars and a large building. A utility pole is visible in the foreground, and there is some grass and vegetation near the train tracks.

The image shows a train with several freight cars on a railway track. The train is viewed from above, and the freight car in the center has the text "BURLINGTON NORTHERN" written on it. There is a utility pole in the foreground, and a grassy area separates the railway tracks from a paved area and a building in the background.The hotel is Fairfield by Marriot in Winnipeg and truth is that I stayed a few more times on that side of the hotel and the train didn’t bother me except with this occasion. Either I sleept too deep or no train passed by.

One Comment

  1. I have had the same experience at the Holiday Inn Downtown in Shreveport, LA. It is only a nuisance in low level rooms on one end of the hotel.

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