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VIA ran an evacuation train last evening on the 150km between Hope and Vancouver with 200 aboard. It used the Canadian set stuck in Vancouver and a joint effort of VIA, CN and BC Emergency Management...

VIA has announced that the Ocean's second weekly frequency will return on December 8th with departures from Montreal and Halifax now on Sunday and Wednesday. The third frequency will return in June 2022. The second consist appears to be a hybrid like the first with a mixture of Renaissance and...

'First' Last Run – 40 years ago today: November 14-15 1981 Most would say the last scheduled passenger trains in Maine until the launch of Amtrak's Downeaster in 2001 were Boston and Maine's RDC runs between Boston and Portland in 1965 or the Grand Trunk Portland-Montreal summer only...

Canadian Pacific will again this year continue with the tradition of honouring Veterans on Remembrance Day with the sounding of locomotive horns system wide at 11:01am https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/remembrance-day ”The ceremony will include a CP locomotive whistle sounding at 11:01 a.m...

VIA has just updated this page on their Web Site to show that access to the Park Car and Skyline will now be accessible to passengers based on limited capacity. It also appears all meals are now served in the Dining car including Lunch....not just Breakfast and Dinner. It's the Covid menu but...

After nearly 17 months......here's the first run of VIA's Ocean making it's way west through Truro, Nova Scotia this afternoon..... August 11, 2021. The Ocean now uses a hybrid mix of Budd and Renaissance equipment. As the train is no longer turned in Halifax it will operate with a...

It’s 54 years ago this month since the last Passenger Specials to the Maine Beaches ran on the 295 mile CN-Grand Trunk route between Montreal and Portland. After regular, year round service was discontinued in 1960…..CN continued to run and advertise summertime Passenger Specials for another 7...

VIA Rail has their own Coat of Arms https://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=3218&ProjectElementID=11363 With interesting Symbolism: “Black and yellow are the corporate colours of VIA Rail. The upper squares evoke the windows of a passenger rail car. The lower...

Wonder what this is all about? It's certainly encroaching into VIA territory! GO was running some test trains July31/Aug1 between Toronto and London on the north line via Guelph, Kitchener and Stratford. GO already reaches Kitchener at 100 km out.......a London extension would add another 95...

Our hockey goalie from previous videos is back with another covid coach trip on the Canadian. And if anyone can sell you on a coach trip.....it's him! This time he's travelling between Toronto and Winnipeg. The Skyline Dome is still closed....but look at those meals served at you seat!

Years late and a couple hundred million over budget.....the City of Toronto says the revitalization of Union Station is now essentially complete. This is the last phase that just opened...the GO Bay Concourse. The GO York Concourse and VIA Concourse have been open for several years. But looking...

The Bi-directional consist for the Ocean is on its way to Halifax! (just click 'Watch on Youtube' below to view video) Thanks to Tim Hayman on the Can-Pass-Rail Forum for this link and Bernard Babin for the video of this first Ocean in 16 months. This is a deadhead move from the MMC in...

VIA has just announced the Ocean is returning on August 11 https://media.viarail.ca/en/press-releases/2021/rails-ocean-service-gradually-resume-starting-august-11

Thanks to Can-Pass-Rail Forum members.....here's a video link showing the first VIA #1 in 14 months departing Toronto yesterday morning, May 23, 2021.

Here's a nice video of a very positive take on a Canadian coach trip in these covid times. (Even the at-your-seat coach meals look good!) (Note those refurbished coaches with the green window band and yellow letter-board.....they'll eventually be used in the corridor)

Right up until Amtrak Day 50 years ago Penn Central was running Chicago-Detroit-Buffalo-New York trains across Southern Ontario between Windsor and Fort Erie on 250 miles of the former Michigan Central/New York Central Railroad. (to travel via Toledo and Cleveland was about 350 miles) In 1970...

VIA has announced the Canadian will be extended back to Toronto from Winnipeg. There will be one train a week each way. The first through train from Vancouver to Toronto will be on May 17.....and the first departure from Toronto to Vancouver on May 23. VIA RAIL ANNOUNCES RESUMPTION OF THE...

Here's the new VIA Timetable effective April 1. An additional train has been added each way daily between Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City plus there's some additional trains 4 days/week between Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal. The Canadian (in name only) is still once weekly between Vancouver...

I will.....and I'll start by quoting my post in the other thread...... I rode between Edmonton and Calgary several times back in the '70s and '80s. Here's VIA Train #196 for Calgary at South Edmonton on July 7, 1980......and looking no different than the CP Rail 'Dayliner' that had been on...

Here's the February 2021 Power Point presentation to the Next Generation Equipment Committee with updated Timelines.....and it looks like Trainset #1 is arriving in Q2 (Apr-June) this year for testing on the VIA owned Alexandria Subdivision between Ottawa and Coteau, QC...