Category : Canada
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VIA’s Different: Someone’s In Charge.
VIA Rail’s premier train, The Canadian, is a class operation. The classic equipment is wonderful and the onboard crew is excellent. Well, they had damn well better be! The on...
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A Little of This; a Little of That.
Good Luck with This. One of the transportation goals being advocated by the National Association of Railroad Passengers NARP) is “connectivity”, meaning that we should be able to transfer smoothly...
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Where There’s A Will There’s a Wait.
There used to be a daily train from Washington to Montreal—the original one, the Montrealer, was operated by the Boston and Maine Railroad and then by Amtrak beginning in 1972....
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Is There a Plot to Kill The Canadian?
A Canadian government report has just surfaced and it calls for an end to the subsidy of VIA Rail’s Train #1. That is, of course, The Canadian, the iconic train...
