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Amtrak close to corridor agreement with New York state
Do Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia provide any financial support to Amtrak for the international trains?
Can’t comment on the Adirondack or the Vancouver service, however the Maple Leaf is a VIA train on the Canadian side of the border. It runs with VIA crews; don’t know if there is any settling up of equipment or maintenance costs.
Via Rail has nothing to do with either the Adirondack or the Vancouver-Seattle trains and they receive no financial support from Canadian sources. Support for passenger trains by Canadian provincial governments is confined to commuter services and the province-owned Ontario Northland from Cochrane to Moosonee.
I do miss the ‘old days’, when the real Delaware and Hudson ran the Albany-Montreal line, with thru cars, including sleepers, to GCT. The D&H had the best coffee, on their diner, that I have ever had on a railroad. I even gave up some ‘berth time’ to have some on the southbound trips.