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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…

You are touching a crucial thing here: as I can confirm with my own experience of having switched employers twice in the last two years (once by choice and once by necessity), everyone with a certain level of expertise in the operational, technological, commercial, economic and/or political...

That was all I had to say about this video (and, again, I hope I didn't offend anyone!), but Terry Johnson from Transport Action Canada wrote a much more nuanced and concise critique of said video:

Before I reply to your post, I have to enphasize that I usually appreciate your posts and that I'm still grateful for you having taken the time to summarize the video, as I couldn't have possibly suffered through 17 minutes of apparently an awful lot of (to any expert in the field: painful)...

Once you refer to the "Order Varying Certain National Transportation Agency Orders Respecting Railway Companies" as the actual legislation mandating the 1990 cuts, your question becomes rather simple to answer: Schedule III mandated that VIA abandons the entire CP route: "VIA Rail Canada Inc...

Given that a comparison of the per-timetable-km cost of Ontario Northland and VIA Rail suggests that the costs of operating rail services is at least 10 times that of a bus doing the same, the crucial question will always be what exactly such a rail service could possibly achieve what a bus...

Indeed, but neither Trois-Riviéres nor Peterborough are end points (or considered major stops) along the HFR route. They are just lucky to be located along the most feasible dedicated (i.e. passenger-only) alignment between cities which actually count (and Saskatchewan sorely lacks)…

My apologies for the very late reply. My point was that the example of these three cities proves that cities approximately the size of Saskatoon and Regina are not automatically guaranteed intercity rail service, even when they are located within the Quebec-Windsor Corridor. What matters is the...

Saskatoon and Regina are roughly the same size (150-300k CMA) as Peterborough, Trois-Rivières and Sherbrooke and they enjoy the same (Regina) or even less (Saskatoon) intercity passenger rail service level as/than all three of these cities located within the Quebec-Windsor Corridor…

I don’t know, the only thing which seems to create any excitement in Central and Western Canada for the revival of intercity passenger services seems to be the expectation that federal (rather than: provincial) tax money would cover the costs…

Yes, I’m very confident that the same province which didn’t want to spare the pocket money which paid for a rather modest intercity bus service will spend the big bucks to restore intercity passenger rail service…

The Canadian still offers non-Sleeper transportation between any of the dozens of stops along its route, which - except for the lack of frequencies - is reasonably comparable to Amtrak, whereas such a transportation utility is virtually absent with its distant cousins in Australia. Not sure...

„Anywhere on the globe“, not: „in any vehicle“! And, yes, I always struggled to receive GPS signals in Park or Skyline domes, despite supposedly unobstracted view to the satellites…

This might work very reliably when you are outdoor, but having whitnessed how difficult it is to obtain a GPS signal from within the train, I wouldn’t count on your pricey satellite phone to be of any use. And as someone else noted: if you rely on remaining connected with the outside world, then...