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The three first questions which come in my would be: Who would staff these Sleepers? IIRC, no Sleeper staff is based in Montreal, as the Ocean is staffed out of Halifax. Who would pay extra for using a Sleeper? From the one ”familiarization” round-trip I did as a (at that time) VIA employee to...

The VIA App saves all Boarding Passes locally (keeping them accessible anytime) and you can always save them as a screenshot on your phone. Also, staff can look you up by name, though I’m not sure that works when without mobile phone reception…

My mistake: I of course meant Rouses Point. Without adequate and preventive maintenance, any infrastructure gradually deteriorates until the point where you have to impose slow orders. No need for conspiracy theories, as these temporary speed restrictions affect CN’s own trains just as much as...

It‘s a matter of track maintenance levels, which are naturally much higher along CN‘s transcontinental Halifax-Toronto-Chicago/Buffalo spine than its branches to Northern Quebec or to Plattsburgh Rouse’s Point…

Just to highlight that heat-related slow orders imposed by CN are not exclusively targeting Amtrak: They‘ve forced VIA to operate their Northern Quebec services overnight during heat waves throughout the last few summers… https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/topic/83797439

Intra-Canada travellers on the Adirondack, where the only two Canadian stops are Montreal and Saint-Lambert?

64 has been cycling from Windsor with 70 (and 65&75 the previous day) for quite a few years by now and given that West of Toronto will presumably be the last area to see the Ventures, it sounds like one of the safer bets if you really want to avoid them, but of course much can change before...

VIA has not ordered any, but good to know they exist…

Always book your new ticket before cancelling the old one…

Rumors have it that there will be 2 Venture Sets and 2 Renaissance Sets in regular circulation as of next month: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/96171

I don’t have any insider knowledge since I left VIA exactly two years ago, but as I wrote elsewhere: Keep in mid that VIA doesn’t currently have the equipment to restore its full pre-pandemic schedule (e.g. the morning commuter trains 82 & 651 from London & Kingston to Toronto)…

Not sure when you are booked, but some additional HEP cars seem to have been added into the reservation system: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/96144

How much an Edmonton-Vancouver ticket costs is irrelevant for the question of how much VIA should refund for having been forced to terminate the journey in Edmonton. What matters is the difference between what the passenger was charged and what the same journey would have cost terminating in...

Eric Gagnon’s Blog is called “Trackside Treasure” (no plural) and the report which recommended the Buffer Car measure can be found here: http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-report-that-hatched-buffer-cars.html?m=1

There are three plausible regulatory approaches when encountering that something might no longer comply with applicable safety regulations: 1) Ignore the issue until more definite evidence is found. 2) Accept mitigating measures until more definite evidence is found. 3) Immediately suspend...

Yes, 6208 (an RDC-2) was sacrificed: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/95897 If I read my Canadian Trackside Guide Correctly, that leaves only 1 RDC-1 (6105), 2 RDC-2s (6217&6219) and 2 RDC-4s (6250&6251) in VIA’s active roster…

Even though they put the RDCs from Vancouver Island (i.e. the only other RDC which operated past the 1990 cuts) into storage, they no longer have enough RDCs to operate multiple consists, let alone: multiple services without a shared base… It’s not a question of how “safe” the trains are, but...

As I explained elsewhere, VIA barely has enough RDCs left to operate this service (but they would have of course kept more if there had been any other RDC services left): I believe the logic goes that it was questionable whether these cars still provided the mandated crashworthiness and that...

They had to run the RDCs in triples, as passengers would only be allowed on the middle RDC…

You are correct, though direct Montreal-Vancouver service of course briefly reemerged between June 1985 and January 1990. Here the November 1981 schedules of the replacement trains for the cancelled transcontinental services: Ottawa-Sudbury (indeed only 3 trains per week): Capreol-Winnipeg...