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...