With respect to the various shunting methods considered (flat switching and push shunting), CN maintains that the complainant would suffer more inconvenience if locomotives had to be used to bring each car to the cars to which they were to be connected, because of the time required to do so.
L'exploitation ferroviaire est susceptible de fluctuations dans le temps et le plaignant ne peut prétendre à un droit acquis quant à l'importance des opérations ferroviaires du CN au moment de l'achat de sa propriété en 1987.