I’m often asked which is my favorite destination or which trip do I remember most or some version of that. Because I travel almost exclusively by train, my answer is quite likely to be different from someone who flies everywhere. In any event, I have wonderful memories of several spots on this globe. I…
Churchill is a town of about 900 full-time residents located in northern Manitoba on the shores of Hudson Bay. How far north, you ask? Roughly 1100 miles north of Winnipeg and about 600 miles below the Arctic Circle. That’s pretty damn far north. Believe it or not, tourism is a big deal in Churchill…
VIA Rail’s premier train is the Canadian, a four night trip from Toronto to Vancouver. It’s a great ride and should be on every train travel enthusiast’s bucket list. But VIA has several other great rides and one in particular, the Hudson Bay, belongs on the same list. It runs from Winnipeg almost due north…
Six years ago, I took VIA Rail’s wonderful trans-continental train, The Canadian, and got off in Winnipeg. Two days later—it was about the third week of October—I boarded Train 693, the Hudson Bay, for the two-night, 1100-mile ride north to the little town of Churchill. The train ride—here we are in the town…