It has been a bad week for Montreal-area commuter trains

Several unrelated incidents wreaked havoc with the commuter train lines on the first four days of the week.
“It was a difficult week,” said Elaine Arsenault, a spokesperson for the Réseau transport métropolitain, which oversees operations of the region’s commuter trains.
The problems began on Monday morning when water from melting snow seeped into what Arsenault called propulsion boxes on four train cars serving the Deux-Montagnes line. As a result, several trains