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The Maple Leaf is an international passenger train service operated by Amtrak and Via Rail between New York Penn Station in New York City and Union Station in Toronto via Amtrak's Empire Corridor, and the south western part of Via Rail's Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.
A route map of Via Rail frequencies from 2013. Via Rail operates 497 trains per week over nineteen routes. Via groups these routes into three broad categories: [1] "Rapid Intercity Travel": daytime services over the Corridor between Ontario and Quebec. The vast majority of Via's trains–429 per week–operate here.
The train had its final departure on February 3, 1961. [4] [3] In 1981, Amtrak and Via Rail reintroduced the Maple Leaf name for their New York–Toronto train, the first direct rail service between these cities since 1967. The modern Maple Leaf uses the Empire Corridor through New York state rather than the historic route of the Lehigh Valley ...
New York, NY–Toronto, ON (with through cars to other destinations) [1930] 1925-1931 Toronto-Buffalo Express: New York Central, Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, Canadian Pacific: New York, NY–Toronto, ON (1952] 1943-1963 Trans-Canada: Canadian Pacific: Toronto, ON – Vancouver, BC [1918] 1915-1922 Trent: Via Rail: Toronto, ON ...
Grimsby station is a railway station in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.It is served by the Maple Leaf train between Toronto and New York City.. The Maple Leaf is a joint Amtrak–Via Rail service: ticketing is shared, and trains consist of Amtrak equipment but are operated on the Toronto–Niagara Falls portion of the route by Via crews.
In partnership with Via Rail, Amtrak runs the Maple Leaf train from Toronto to New York City. The train uses an Amtrak consist but is operated by Via crews north of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Other major U.S. destinations along the route include Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany. Amtrak and Via Rail formerly operated the International ...
The Corridor service area has the heaviest passenger train frequency in Canada, with 36 Via trains traversing the route daily. [4] About 67% of Via's revenue comes from Corridor routes. Via trains that start and end within the geographic region of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor are branded as a part of the Corridor service.
Significant portions of the railway network in the City of Toronto have been sold by the commercial railways to GO Transit, the provincial commuter rail operator. Toronto is served by inter-city Via Rail to other Canadian cities and Amtrak's daily New York City trains through Union Station, a grand neoclassical structure in the heart of the ...