Rudsak Designer Xiao Wei Crowned Winner of Via Rail Uniform Design Contest
06 November 2009
TORONTO — A Montreal-based designer has landed on the fast track to fashion victory as the winner of the Via Rail uniform design contest. Xiao Wei took home top honours at an event held Thursday at Toronto’s LG Fashion Week.
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Rocky Mountaineer Bonus Ride
06 November 2009
Book now to ride the rails with Rocky Mountaineer (1-800-665-7245, www.rockymountaineer.com) in 2010 and take advantage of an Early Booking Bonus. It gives you travel credits for everything from extra hotel nights, car rentals and city tours to airfare or a ride on the Rocky Mountaineer Whistler Sea to Sky Climb (between Vancouver and Whistler).
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Need for New Trains Drives up Ohio Rail Plan Cost
21 September 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amtrak has put a nearly $518 million price tag on Ohio’s plan to restore passenger train service to its major cities, a higher-than-expected cost driven by the need to buy new rail cars that challenges the state’s goal of running trains as early as 2011. Amtrak’s inventory is tight, and because of [...]
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Canada’s Epic Rocky Mountains: Just like Heaven, Only Better
21 September 2009
Look out to the left, the captain said, and you can see killer whales. Now that’s not the kind of invitation you expect when you’re on a car ferry, especially if you are more used to the hop between Dover and Calais, when there is normally nothing to see… except other ferries. But this was [...]
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Spiralling through Kicking Horse Pass
21 September 2009
As Calgary’s glass towers disappear into the distance, prairie gives way to rolling foothills and the Rocky Mountains take over the landscape, I stand on the back of Canadian Pacific Railway’s Mount Stephen car on the same platform where world leaders and royalty once perched. The distinctive black-topped maroon passenger car, built in 1926 for [...]
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Government of Canada and VIA Rail Expand Renewal of Passenger Train Cars and Locomotives
21 September 2009
The Government of Canada and VIA Rail announced today a $20 million program to renew and improve two key components of its nationwide locomotive and rolling stock fleet, funded from the $407 million investment in passenger rail improvements under the Government of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. “It gives me great pleasure to announce the overhaul [...]
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