Some interesting ideas were recently presented by Hunter Harrison, president and CEO of Canadian National Railway, who laid out his view of the future of freight rail in a speech...
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...
You have probably seen my earlier rants about how the US has fallen behind most of the rest of the world when it comes to train travel. In particular, the...
VIA Rail, which is Canada’s equivalent to Amtrak in the U.S., made news a while back by offering free tickets to Canadian service personnel during the month of July. That...