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There were a few Sleepers on Ferries in North America: Detroit-Windsor-Toronto-Montreal: Passengers would board Sleepers, Parlor Cars and Coaches in Grand Trunk Western's Brush St. Station on the Detroit waterfront and be ferried across the river to Windsor where the cars were attached to CN...

The original Dayniters were converted coaches with good window spacing. Later on some sleepers went through the conversion and you might find yourself next to a wall....No View!

Checking through some consist notes.....I caught a couple of 'Manors' on the Atlantics at Truro NS on August 2, 1981: 'Cornwall Manor' eastbound and 'Cameron Manor' (below) heading west. As the early '80s progressed.....more exCP equipment appeared in the east and on the Ocean after the...

There's been some details posted in various railfan forums on the operation of the evacuation train. This was the 'Canadian' consist in Vancouver that had been ready to depart east on Nov. 15. Upon reaching Hope.....passengers were accommodated in three coaches. The train also stopped at...

It was the entire Canadian consist that that in Vancouver. CBC news coverage showed the Park Car backing into Pacific Central Station when the train returned from Hope last evening. Also interviews with passengers and some station interior shots.

VIA ran an evacuation train last evening on the 150km between Hope and Vancouver with 200 aboard. It used the Canadian set stuck in Vancouver and a joint effort of VIA, CN and BC Emergency Management...

VIA has announced that the Ocean's second weekly frequency will return on December 8th with departures from Montreal and Halifax now on Sunday and Wednesday. The third frequency will return in June 2022. The second consist appears to be a hybrid like the first with a mixture of Renaissance and...

As a Canadian riding through the US...we'd be inspected by US agents but when we reentered Canada at Magantic or McAdam seldom did we ever see Canadian Customs. I know I had been 'Officially' admitted to the US but I've always wondered.....was I ever 'Officially' back in Canada??

Here's the Atlantic Timetable from June 1981. Passengers could also ride between two stations within Maine.

'First' Last Run – 40 years ago today: November 14-15 1981 Most would say the last scheduled passenger trains in Maine until the launch of Amtrak's Downeaster in 2001 were Boston and Maine's RDC runs between Boston and Portland in 1965 or the Grand Trunk Portland-Montreal summer only...

Don't see anything online yet (there was a link to the virtual ceremony) but here's a nice video to CP's Remembrance Day ceremony a couple of years ago when the specially painted locomotives were unvailed:

Canadian Pacific will again this year continue with the tradition of honouring Veterans on Remembrance Day with the sounding of locomotive horns system wide at 11:01am https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/remembrance-day ”The ceremony will include a CP locomotive whistle sounding at 11:01 a.m...

Just saying.....be careful! Its all the discretion of the border agent. Some are by the book more so than others.

Careful now!! There are reports of Border Agents actually verifying your quarantine plan so I would at least have a reservation at a hotel...not just giving an address. Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has a news conference at noon ET today on rail and air travel. Perhaps some updates...

And Americans will still need a PCR test to enter Canada......but don't need that second test to return to the US.

Unlike the Adirondack (and Cascades) which are entirely an Amtrak operation including crews while in Canada.....the Maple Leaf is a jointly run train and VIA would have to get involved for it to return

There's a couple of reports in Canadian railfan forums of an Amtrak Test Train on CN's Rouses Point Subdivision yesterday and photos of the equipment at the MMC in Montreal last evening with the specially painted "50 Years" AMTK 108 unit. Probably crew requalification for an Adirondack service...

A least a first step to the return of Amtrak!!......but probably at least a couple of months away before crews are requalified etc. Also the logistic of verifying vaccine status/negative test at origin so someone is not denied entry at the border and no train back until the next day. For...

Although Greyhound Canada has ceased operations.....US Greyhound has said they will still serve the Seattle <> Vancouver run once the border fully reopens. And I don't think there will be any cruises until the border is fully open and that will probably around the same time Amtrak resumes...

The pedestrian tunnel opened in 2015 so the ferry is now mainly used by airport vehicles and those that have authority to cross. No public/passenger vehicles. Pedestrians are allowed but most are just dropped off on the mainland side.....take the elevator down to the tunnel and walk over to the...