Is it an earthquake?!
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 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.
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.