diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/train.py b/training/deepspeech_training/train.py
index 6ebe29a6..3428598d 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/train.py
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/train.py
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ def create_inference_graph(batch_size=1, n_steps=16, tflite=False):
 
 
 def file_relative_read(fname):
-    return open_remote(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
+    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
 
 
 def export():
diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/util/taskcluster.py b/training/deepspeech_training/util/taskcluster.py
index ba4f2019..4471659d 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/util/taskcluster.py
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/util/taskcluster.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def maybe_download_tc_bin(**kwargs):
     os.chmod(final_file, final_stat.st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC)
 
 def read(fname):
-    return open_remote(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
+    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
 
 def main():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Tooling to ease downloading of components from TaskCluster.')