Urban Sky

We did that trip, and it was the best train adventure to date. We traveled from Vancouver to Toronto and then continued on a different...

Oh yeah, I forgot this: don’t schedule anything you wouldn‘t want to miss or would have to reschedule within 24 hours of arrival time...

My #1 advice to any night train travellers is to adjust their sleep schedule to maximize the daylight views on the scenery. Another one...

The Windsor - Quebec City corridor is, essentially, VIA’s equivalent of the Northeast Corridor while the Adirondack is probably the most...

In the memoirs of a British woman who worked with refugees up to 1939 in Prague for the Daily Herald charity, Canada was the easiest...

Dark, cold, snow, Timmys, in other words the full Canadian Experience!

An across-the-platform transfer between trains - whether in Detroit or Windsor - is infinitely better than involving a bus at any point...

I think those proposing a Thruway bus are suggesting one from Detroit Amtrak to Windsor VIA (and the reverse), not Detroit to Toronto...

Good point! potential passengers much more likely to say "Great a train to Detroit" Toronto and other locations passengers saying...

Fresh air breaks/being allowed off at Melville and Hornepayne is still permitted as of the first week of November. Will know about...

Methinks he was tongue in the cheek referring to the two Germanies when it was divided before the Iron Curtain collapsed. Actually it...

Given the amount of space that is potentially available at the Michigan Central Station, an alternative worth considering would be to...

Nailed it. Sometimes we can't see the glass half-full. We can debate aspects of this proposal like station location or train frequency...

You are right. The primary discussion in this thread is about what can practically be done in short order for relatively modest...

This could make sense if service is vastly increased on both corridors (CHI-DET and DET-PNT), but with the current anemic service, the...