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I'm not familiar with Alaska RR, but in the case of the Canadian, the question is not whether Prestige Class would turn a profit if it was running as a separate train independently from VIA's other services, but whether it attracts more incremental revenues than it causes incremental costs. Now...

I agree that the CN line has also very spectacular sceneries and allows an even more remote and isolated experience East of Winnipeg than the CP route. As for these rumours, as long as VIA is mandated to operate rail services out of Sudbury, Winnipeg and Jasper, there will be a need for a...

I don’t think anyone disputes that Amtrak‘s LD routes are easier to use than VIA‘s Canadian, but when you compare the Canadian with Australia‘s Indian Pacific, which operates with very similar equipment over virtually the same distance (2,698 vs. 2775 miles), we should agree that the difference...

To underline your point: this is the extent to which the timetable changes in July 2018 and April 2019 have all but eliminated the issue of excessive arrival delays making national news: All data is pre-Covid, but I have no reason to believe that things have slipped back significantly compared...

Look up the population figures along the Canadian’s route and compare them with any long-distance Amtrak route: there are only 7 cities (Sudbury, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Kamloops, Chilliwack and Abbotsford) along the 2,775 miles between Toronto and Vancouver with more than 100k in their...

We are talking about a train consisting of a locomotive, a baggage car and a single coach with galley, which is staffed by a single on-train crew member. Having taken this train myself, I can assure you that the attendant was busy enough, so that he could not assume any additional duties...

Before I attempt to answer your question: what is the problem we are trying to fix at the moment and is it really a problem beyond rail enthusiasts’ forums like this one?

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...