You probably don't think a lot about freight trains, but when they stop running it can make things go haywire.

The quantities of cargo of goods and of bulk goods that move through the rail network back and forth between Canada and the US simply can't be moved on to trucks. It's just too much.

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In Canada, negotiations between railway companies and their union employees collapsed.

And the trains screeched to a halt.

Canada National and Canada Pacific, Kansas City Railways locked out more than 9,000 union workers.

Supply chains are now in knots, grain, lumber, fertilizer, iron ore, cement, and

other consumer goods bound for the United States are not moving.

While commuters in three major Canadian cities are looking for other ways to get to work.

Scott Steiner knows the consequences of the strike and how it might get solved,

he's the former chair of the Canadian Transportation Agency and former head of Canada's mediation and conciliation service.

He explained how the shutdown happened.

Each of the railway companies was in negotiations for a new collective agreement with the Teamsters Union

and in both cases they were unable to reach a deal. What's a little unusual in this case

is that it's happening at both of Canada's major freight railway companies at the same time.

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