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Sipping a glass of wine over a period of 30 minutes of continuous mask removal vs. taking off your mask for 15 seconds to take a big gulp out of your water bottle. Admittedly, this also makes the case for banning tea, coffee, juice and soft drinks (i.e. all drinks but water, preferably of the...

The departure time would have been 11pm on any evening and the arrival time at 7:25am (7:45am until April 26) on the fourth morning after, resulting in a travel time of 83:25h (thus 4 nights and three days). You will find the timings on the left side and consists (never heard the word "rake"...

That is almost inevitable on a common carrier which allows people to move around en-route. However, how do you want to avoid that people use the seats as reference points when navigating across the car and therefore miss the tripping hazard posed by your side table? I’m not saying your idea is...

So that passengers passing by the corridor accidentally knock over your drink - or trip and fall over your side table?

The consist of the Canadian is described in a fair bit of detail on VIA's webpage for the Canadian: https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/trains/rockies-and-pacific/toronto-vancouver-canadian/train-cars The last car of the Canadian is the Park car (car number #39), which houses the...

This is exactly the point almost all North Americans miss when they contrast passenger railroading in places like Europe with those at home: HSR is nothing more than the icing on the cake. According to the most recent Statistical Pocketbook of the European Commission, High Speed Rail accounted...

Those Sleeper passengers I met on board my two trips on board the Canadian and half a dozen trips on the Ocean overwhelmingly fitted the „Retirees“ category, but I do concede that we must consider a Survivor Bias, as you will only meet people on board a train which can make its schedule work for...

Indeed, the current schedule forces on-train staff (based in Halifax, IIRC) to layover for 36 (Thu/Fri, Sat/Sun) or even 50 (Mon/Tue/Wed) hours in Montreal before returning and similar staffing inefficiencies exist with Locomotive Engineers (though not between Sainte-Foy and Campbellton, as...

Indeed, I’m not aware of any other railroads publishing that kind of Management Accounting figures, which would allow to estimate whether a service increase would let revenues rise faster than costs or not… I highly doubt it: in peak season, almost all available revenue cars (Sleepers and...

Amen, and it’s not much better North of the border…

The implicit assumption that nobody depends on public transportation, as everyone can afford car ownership or taking a taxi, sounds much more American than British to me - and it‘s just as shamefully incorrect in either country and on any day of the year (but especially on what is one of the two...

What if I told you that (apart from track maintenance crews), no railroader in the UK has to go on strike to get Christmas off? No trains will run on Christmas or Boxing Day as usual, while engineering work over the festive period will disrupt services into stations including Leeds, Bristol...

Only as long as you don’t need the space of the loop track for container storage…

In a helpful coincidence, my observation has been confirmed today in a different forum: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/93147

Even-numbered rooms face one direction, odd-numbered the other: https://corpo.viarail.ca/en/projects-infrastructure/train-fleet/renaissance-sleeping-car/diagram If this video is an indication, then the Sleeper cabins’ windows face the Southern Side (which would make even rooms face forward when...

That sounds like an epic trip! I don't get why dorm-style shared-rooms are as ubiquitous in North American hostels as they seem to be everywhere else, but dorm-style sleeper compartments seem to be unthinkable...

Train #2 which was scheduled to depart on November 15 and Train #1 which left Toronto on November 14 were both cancelled west of Toronto Winnipeg, as you can see here: https://reservia.viarail.ca/tsi/GetTrainStatus.aspx?l=en&TsiCCode=VIA&TsiTrainNumber=1-&TrainInstanceDate=2021-11-18...

The current Service Status page seems to explicitly refer to trains 3 and 4: https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan-your-trip/service-status

Full service resumption of the Canadian has been announced for May 2022: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/as-demand-continues-to-progress-via-rail-announces-the-final-phase-of-its-gradual-service-resumption-plan-856852033.html

Now I get you! Windsor's waterfront would be so close to Detroit, but yet so far... It really would be a shame to void all the very recent investments into Windsor's VIA station in Walkerville, but cross-border service only makes sense if it is moved to basically the old CP station site...