VIA Rail’s premier train, the Canadian, gets most of the press, and deservedly so, but there’s another VIA train that is almost always overlooked. The Skeena runs from Jasper in...

VIA does a nice job on their trains number 1 and 2, The Canadian, from start to finish. It may help to make some comparisons between VIA’s flagship train and...

Over and over again, a long-distance train ride has provided the unexpected pleasure of meeting and getting to know interesting people.   Take for example the British couple my wife...

For many years, VIA Rail’s iconic trans-continental train, the Canadian, ran on a route owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway. On its way from from Vancouver to Toronto, the train...

(The following was written shortly after departing Winnipeg yesterday. I am posting this from Jasper while wrestling with a balky internet connection. Lovely day here … temperature is 75 degrees,...

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...

One way to rate any train ride is to ask yourself, “Would I like to take that ride again?” Certainly, if I’m thinking of VIA Rail’s trans-continental train, the Canadian,...

My wife and I rode the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies to Banff three years ago. Truthfully, I don’t remember what we paid, but the same two-day...

I have logged many thousands of miles across Canada on more than a dozen VIA Rail trains and can honestly say I’ve enjoyed every one. Furthermore, I can really recommend...

In my previous post, I mentioned that last summer my wife and I rode the VIA Rail train running between Jasper and Prince Rupert. It’s called the Skeena but, according...