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If I remember correctly, Renaissance cars have five types of couplers: - the standard couplers are Male/Female, where male connects with female - then there are Quick Couplers which connect with other quick couplers and allow to relatively easily remove entire blocks of cars - then there are...

Just because cars and locomotives are swapped against equivalent car and locomotive types does not mean that a new plan is in place. Dispatching is a normal process in which a plan is adjusted on an ad-hoc basis to match it with the available ressources and the circumstances of the day. PS...

Clearly not a revenue move, if you read the description of the video you shared: It’s just an equipment move…

The Siemens trainsets are physically and technically incompatible with the legacy fleet, whereas the Renaissance cars just have couplers which are incompatible with the legacy fleet, unless you use „Baggage Transition“ cars. Therefore, the Siemens trainsets (and also the Renaissance trainsets in...

Not sure what exactly “on a run” is intended to mean here, but I’d just like to point out that VIA does not and will not run a mix of Venture and legacy cars in the same consist or on the same train…

Maybe easier to read:

Next rare mileage opportunities (Toronto-Aldershot via Georgetown and then the Halton Sub to Burlington):

All details of the Corridor deployment can now be found directly on VIA‘s website (click on „See Train Schedule“ to expand the actual list of trains): https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/new-fleet

Face forward (access is from the bullet lounge). Unlike with the Skylines, the car orientation was never reversed…: https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/our-trains/park-car

No worries, there will be many more “rare mileage” opportunities to come. Just watch the VIA Rail website for travel advisories like this one:

Peak season usually starts around April 30, not April 15 and the additional equipment is added in Vancouver, not Toronto, which means that the consist and numbering should follow off-peak logic (with the number of revenue cars indeed warying according to booking volume). Below is the line-up...

Thank you for posting this and it matches with the comments I‘ve received in the meanwhile that a) the Crew Chateau is now a Manor and behind the front Diner, not the back Diner and b) that I confused the line number order of the Manors (which count from-back-to-front in the off-peak and...

Dealing with foreign currencies sucks, doesn’t it? I had to carry around the $20 I got from that lovely American couple I helped planning their rail trip in the Rhine valley for five years in my money belt before I finally had the opportunity to pay with it on US soil. However, a good way to get...

I‘ve never seen Prestige rooms discounted. It‘s the same fare for everyone (even VIA employees travelling for Leisure)…

If I remember correctly, during off-peak period, car 112 is the third Manor Sleeper counted from the front: F40 locomotive F40 locomotive Baggage Coach #02 (Coach #03) Skyline Manor 10 Manor 11 Manor 12 (Manor 13) (Manor 14) (Manor 15) Skyline Diner Crew Chateau Prestige Chateau #30 (Prestige...

Unless you work for a business which accepts that foreign currency or regularly travel to a country where that foreign currency is a legal tender, dealing with said foreign currency is a hazzle. It is totally fine to pay with your local currency if you are just behind the border for a few hours...

I don’t understand how tourists from virtually every other nationality than the United States seem to grasp and effortlessly adapt to this, but unless you are traveling through a country with rampant inflation or manipulated exchange rates (like Cuba, Egypt or Argentina), the general expectation...

The entire point of HFR (when it was conceived as an idea and first presented to the public almost a decade ago) was to define a project, which was small enough to not completely overwhelm the financial apetite of its federal masters yet large enough to be a gamechanger which demonstrates what...

It has been answered in the meanwhile, just in a different thread:

Black Friday and Cyber Monday would probably be your best bets…