There is a lounge car with a dome at the end of every one of VIA Rail’s long- distance trains. There was so much blowing snow on this trip, however, the view was often less than perfect. We waited for more than an hour on a siding until–finally!–this CN freight came lumbering by. This morning…
I’m afraid that postings here will probably be somewhat irregular over the next dozen days since I’ll be on the train for seven of the twelve nights and access to the internet will be spotty at best. I’m leaving tomorrow on a red-eye to Seattle, arriving Monday morning. I’ll be in that wonderful city…
Amtrak has been under pressure from Congress for years—it seems like forever—to cut costs in order to achieve what no other national passenger rail system in the world had been able to do: break even. As it is, Amtrak has made remarkable progress, to the point that they are recovering something like 90% of…
Call it a dining car or a diner or, as in Europe, a restaurant car, but the one thing people remember most about a long-distance train ride is the experience of having a full-on meal in a rolling restaurant. And no wonder. There you are, enjoying a cheeseburger with bacon and a cold beer for…