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Same size/loading gauge as any cars running on the railways in Britain today. VIA had mechanical issues with the Rens but they are solid and very smooth riding. The rooms are quiet with a substantial partition between rooms unlike the rattling folding partitions between Budd Bedrooms. And...

The overnight Cavalier between Toronto and Montreal was launched by CN at the end of the CN/CP Pool Train agreement in October 1965. https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/the-end-of-the-pool-agreement.66087/ The overnight Toronto-Ottawa train was the Capital and it was eventually combined...

On a Bi-directional Ocean.....the Budd Coaches will all have reversible seats. The Renaissance Diners are like any other with half facing forward and half backwards. The Lounge seats are benches and grouped with a table: In a Ren Sleeper......half the rooms are forward facing and half face...

The Skyline (and Park Car) Domes always had the same style seating they still have. The tray-tables were added to the backs during the HEP1 rebuilding. CP Rail did modify a couple of Skylines back in the 60s-70s with flip-over seats for use on the Atlantic Limited across Maine. (The Atlantic...

Here's a Renaissance Double Bedroom (Cabin for 2) set up for daytime. The rooms all have an ensuite washroom and some also have a shower. The Ren Ecomomy Class Coaches all have 2 and 1 seating. The same cars are used for Business Class with at-seat hot meals, beer and wine service.

Here's the Ocean on the Loop Track in the Halifax Container Terminal. It pulls forward......then backs down into the VIA Station.

VIA turned the Ocean on a Loop Track at the Container Terminal near the station. Shipping and container traffic has increased so the area where the loop track was located is no longer available. There is also no Wye Track near Halifax where a train could be turned so the locomotives will now...

No....The Ocean can no longer be turned in Halifax and VIA has already decided it will be a bi-directional train with the F40s just running around the cars to the opposite end in Halifax. If a Park Car was used it would be running backwards in one direction right behind the locomotives. In...

I took Megabus overnight between Montreal and Toronto a couple of years ago (I certainly would have been on VIA's Enterprise if it had still been running) It was a double-decker bus and not to busy. I had a double seat to myself and overall...not a bad ride!

Some of the unfinished Sleeper shells were used for the Ren Diners (the original British Rail configuration did not have diners) If you look at the Ren Diner in my photo above you will see some windows spacings are closer together than the others...and where the photos are on the wall between...

Renaissance Sleeper Renaissance Diner......and there is no Kitchen. Meals are prepared 'on-shore' and reheated aboard in convection ovens in the adjacent service car.

The Ren cars were rebuilt nearly a decade ago to provide handicap accessible accommodations in sleepers and coaches. When the Ocean returns it will be a hybrid mix of both Budd and Ren equipment. Here's a sample consist I've seen posted: 2 F40s running back to back. Ren Baggage (North American...

Here ya go.....from October 1978:

What was left of Greyhound Canada was already closely paralleled by VIA in the corridor including Toronto-London-Windsor in southwestern Ontario along with Toronto-Ottawa and Ottawa-Montreal...but the main Toronto-Montreal route through Kingston is Mega-Bus. Greyhound does not run east of...

Yes...passenger only. (There are 2 suspension bridges across the harbour) Capacity is 390 passengers and you would normally see people out on the deck enjoying a morning coffee......unlike these covid times in this video! http://www.eyemarine.com/vessel/halifax-transit-passenger-ferries/

The Halifax Transit Ferries scooting across the harbour between downtown Halifax and Dartmouth.

Here's a nice video of a very positive take on a Canadian coach trip in these covid times. (Even the at-your-seat coach meals look good!) (Note those refurbished coaches with the green window band and yellow letter-board.....they'll eventually be used in the corridor)

What was once New York Central's raceway across Ontario handling such name trains as the all-Pullman 'Detroiter' 'Wolverine' 'Empire State Express' and 'Knickerbocker' is now mostly abandoned although the old station at St. Thomas is being restored.

Right up until Amtrak Day 50 years ago Penn Central was running Chicago-Detroit-Buffalo-New York trains across Southern Ontario between Windsor and Fort Erie on 250 miles of the former Michigan Central/New York Central Railroad. (to travel via Toledo and Cleveland was about 350 miles) In 1970...

Yes.....it's now received Royal Assent but doesn't take effect until 12:01am on April 19th. It should have been immediate....and an excuse now for one last party this evening or tomorrow :(