Traveling and Dining in Style on VIA’s # 1 Train

I’ve written several times about VIA Rail’s premier train, the Canadian, appropriately designated as Train # 1 (westbound) and Train # 2 (eastbound). It runs three days a week between Toronto and Vancouver.

This is a marvelous trip, with scenery on the east-to-west trip that progresses from farmland to raw wilderness to the great plains to the Canadian Rockies to lush fertile valleys.

But the other part of the trip that’s so enjoyable is the dining experience. Can you imagine a bettter setting than being comfortably seated at a table for four in the Canadian’s dining car, meeting some interesting fellow pasengers, and enjoying an excellent meal prepared right there on board while Western Canada is passing by right outside? I sure can’t!