We rode it nearly every summer or fall in the decade from 1994 to 2003, when it still ran six nights a week with the stainless steel consists and normally had a Skyline car and full diner as well as the Park car. Those were wonderful trips, and we visited lots of places around Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI. In latter years, after our son was born, we especially liked the drawing rooms in the Chateau and Park cars.
By 2004, the Renaissance cars had taken over, and our new business didn't allow us to take trips of that length in the warmer months. So that was the end of that tradition. Somehow the thought of going from upstate New York to Nova Scotia in February, when we had lots of down time, didn't seem that appealing, so we started going west. Maybe when we retire ...