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Plus, the amenities can be as lavish as a five-star hotel. Guests traveling Canadian Via Rail's Prestige Class have enhancements like a butler and a private bathroom with heated floors. Gold-level ...
As of October 30, 2021, all Via Rail passengers were required by Canadian law to bring proof of vaccination. [31] The Prestige class was unavailable until February 14, 2022. Masks were mandatory at all times in public areas on the train. They could be removed in cabins or nighttime berths, in the shower, or while eating or drinking.
This is a list of past and present rolling stock owned and operated by Via Rail in Canada. Via Rail owns 78 locomotives and 619 passenger cars. [1] The tables below list that equipment by type and include some information regarding previously owned and operated equipment. When Via began operation in 1976–1978 it was with a collection of ...
Closer to home is the four-night transcontinental journey from Toronto to Vancouver in a prestige-class sleeper cabin on The Canadian, a gleaming 1955 train with a glass-domed observation car that ...
Via Rail acquired the entire fleet from Canadian Pacific in 1978. As of 2015 [update] all 29 remain on the roster and are assigned to the Montreal – Gaspé train and Winnipeg – Churchill train and the Ocean between Montreal and Halifax when Renaissance cars are not available or during winter.
Prestige class may refer to: A premium travel class designation: Prestige Class of Korean Air, the class between Premium Economy and First Class; Prestige Class, a premium class of service on Canada's Via Rail; Prestige class (Dungeons & Dragons), a kind of character class; Prestige class of the Renault Sport Trophy
The first five, re-manufactured in 1983 and early 1984, were outshopped without steam generators and became Via Rail class GPA-418a while the remainder, re-manufactured with Vapor steam generators in mid-1984 to mid-1985, became Via Rail class GPA-418b. By 1997 Via Rail had retired virtually all of its older steam-heated rolling stock.
[1] [3] Via Rail acquired the entire fleet from Canadian Pacific in 1978. One, Aylmer Manor , caught fire on January 18, 1987, and was used as a testbed for Via's HEP conversion programme. [ 4 ] Another, Dufferin Manor , was wrecked in the September 3, 1997, derailment near Biggar, Saskatchewan . [ 5 ]