VIA Rail Train #1’s consist is two locomotives, a baggage car, one coach, a lounge/cafe car with a dome for the coach passengers, a dining car for sleeping car passengers, four standard sleepers, one Prestige class sleeper and, finally, the traditional bullet-ended Park car bringing up the rear and in which the bedrooms have been…
The Hotel Pennsylvania is directly across the street from Penn Station and I’ve stayed there several times in the past because of its location. Some of its 1700 rooms have been renovated, but if you don’t get one of those, you’ll end up in one like room 902: small, dingy, awful bed, an ancient TV…
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 from one means of transport to another … that is, from a long-distance train to a commuter line or a bus or an urban transit…
A wonderful incident occurred during a recent Vancouver-Toronto run by VIA Rail’s train #2, The Canadian. A group of railroaders were on board as passengers and a good thing they were, too. While in British Columbia and heading for Jasper, Alberta, the train suddenly came to a stop. The problem was traced to one of…