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Romance of the rails: Train from Edmonton to Vancouver a winter wonderland

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Via Rail’s The Canadian is 70 this year , the last holdout of the rail travel era.

Economic off-season fares and a gateway to West Coast mildness make The Canadian a good way to take a leisurely trundle through a larger-than-life Christmas card that is the Rockies and mountain ranges beyond.

A stripped-down winter schedule means there won’t be another train along in an hour — or even in a day — and due to the finite number of rail systems and the volume of freight, layovers in sidings can wreak havoc on arrivals and departures.

Downloading the free ViaRail app will help track actual departure times.

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63

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44

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semi-formal

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English

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45

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medium-lived

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