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Part 4 - Via Corridor to Toronto. Up early, packed checked out, and off to the station, about a 10-minute walk. Because I was traveling business class, I got to use the lounge at Gare Central. It filled up pretty well, I think there were 2 trains leaving at the same time, and the lounge...

Montreal Metro -- look at the tires. Wonder what happens if they get a flat? Avenue Mont Royal in Montreal. As I said, we have a Mt. Royal Avenue in Baltimore. Firehouse on St. Laurent View from Kondiaronk Belvedere on Mt. Royal Leonard Cohen, the famous Candian singer-songwriter...

Rouse's Point, last stop in the USA. Crossing the border, the border monument is right in front of the RR crossing lights. The bright lights of Montreal. Despite the delays, an early arrival at Gare Central. My first Candian dinner, fancy merguez poutine and Quebec cider at Nyks Bistro...

Now for the photos. All aboard for New York! Notice that they're finally painting the canopies at Baltimore Penn. At the City Beer Hall in Albany, one of the better hamburgers I've eaten. All aboard the Adirondack for Montreal! Mmm yummy Am-stromboli from the cafe car for lunch...

Part 3 continued. My day in Montreal. My Goal for lunch -- Schwartz's Deli on the Main. The local cuisine item, Montreal smoked meat. This is a little like pastrami, but the seasonings are slightly different. Schwartz's is a bit of a tourist trap, but the food is the real deal. They do...

Part 3 - A day in Montreal My late arrival made me hungry, but my internet research had located a pub that kept relatively late hours and was only a block up the street from my hotel. That's where I went, and enjoyed the first item on my list of local cuisine that needed to be sampled...

Last year at Niagara Falls VIA, CBSA lined us all up and had a drug dog sniff our baggage. This past week, when I passed through Nagara Falls, NY, the dog sniffed around my bags when I was talking to the CBP agent. The CBP agent barely looked at my passport, asked me about the food and alcohol...

Also, when the movie was playing, the lounge wasn't any good for other activities, like socializing.

Saw this fleet of new Acelas at the Penn Coach Yards in Philly this morning.

I got a bottle of ice wine. Plus a couple of cans of a Quebec cider I tasted in Montreal. Plus a 375 ml bottle of Alberta Premium. Plus, I didn't think the LCBO prices were that horrible. Crown Royal whisky, 750 ml, C$33.95 at LCBO, US$29.99 at Total WIne in Maryland. (That's about C$37)

One nice thing about this crossing is that they're not set up to collect duty. At least that's what the nice agent told me when I declared a liter and a half of assorted alcoholic beverages. The dog was sniffing one of my bags, very interested, but I think it had to do more with the package...

Just passed Customs into the USA at the Niagara Falls, NY station. 1. It's a high level platform! Makes it a lot easier to get all your stuff off the train. 2. The CBP folks were pleasant and efficient today.e to get back to 3. They have a nice set of ramps to get you fron the platform to...

Part 2 -- Albany to Montreal Woke up early, went down and had breakfast, pretty decent for one of those free hotel breakfasts. Then I went ou and walked around Empire State Plaza and over by the old Albany station on Broadway. The Adirondack doesn't leave until 11:40, so I had plenty of time...

Thank goodness, when I was in the Boy Scouts, my scoutmaster taught us to drink black coffee without sugar on camping trips. His rationale: No refrigeration for cream while on the trail, and that we kinda wouldn't clean our coffee cups properly resulting in a sticky sweet residues that would...

Someone needs to call Henry George, the 19th Century economic thinker who proposed taxing only the value of the land, not the improvements. Taxing improvements leads to land speculation and stuff like surface parking lots on valuable downtown land.

Part 1 -- Baltimore to Albany Northeast Regional 114 was scheduled to leave Baltimore at 10:53 AM, so I ordered a Lyft for 9:50 to make sure I got to the station on time. As happened the driver came early, so I got to Penn Station before 10. When I got in the station, I saw there was a...

On my ride up to Albany yesterday, we passed a couple of Metro-North Poughkeepsie trains being pushed by dual-mode diesel/electric power south towards Grand Central Terminal. We were south of Croton-Harmon in both cases, and what was interesting was that as we passed the train, it was obvious...

We lost 20 minutes between Saratoga and Ft. Edward. Conductor said track crew found something wrong with tracks, and we had to creep through. Then, right after we left Westport, we had to sit on a siding for a while waiting for southbound 68 to pass us. Then when we were on that cliff along...

Well, that explains why the Crescent was cancelled.