"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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> J.T.S. and Martin Bienwald write:
>
>>>> Any help appreciated from a European planning a trip from New York to
>>>> Ottawa by train, is there such a service ?
>
>>> Apparently, you have to spend a night in Montreal on that trip ...
>>> You *might* catch the 6pm train from Montreal to Ottawa on weekends, but
>>> I wouldn't bet on that. There seem to be no later trains on that line.
>
>> yeh just been loking through at the times, doesnt look real simple! might
>> end up flying, just thought it would be nice to see the country along the
>> way on the train.
>
> The New York to Montreal train route includes a good scenic section
> along the Hudson River, though. (Going north, be sure to sit on the
> left.) I don't know about the second half of the trip, after Albany.
> You might taking this train and then continuing by bus (coach to you,
> if you're British) to Ottawa. Picking a random date in March to query
> at www.greyhound.ca, I find hourly buses until midnight, taking 2 hours.
> So this ought to be doable even if the train is significantly late
> (which is a real risk).
>
>>>> Also looking for info on travelling by train from Montreal to Chicago.
>
> I wouldn't. There's a decent train service from Montreal to Toronto,
> and at one time you could do that one day (or overnight) and go
> on from Toronto to Chicago the next day, which gave a reasonably
> direct route passing north of both Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
> But now the latter service has been truncated at the border, so
> the farthest you can get that way is Windsor or Sarnia, Ontario,
> still needing a change at Toronto in either case.
>
> You could make your way from Windsor to Detroit and go on by train to
> Chicago, but I imagine the schedules would require an overnight stop.
> I don't know about continuing by bus from Windsor or Sarnia, but
> even if you can do it the same day, it'll be a long travel day.
>
> As noted, the alternative is to deviate south of one or both of
> the lakes, but then you face an inconveniently long distance and/or
> awkward connections. Going via Schenectady (which is near Albany) is
> the shortest route with only one change, and it takes about 24 hours.
> --
> Mark Brader, Toronto "Not looking like Pascal is not
> msb@vex.net a language deficiency!" -- Doug Gwyn
>
> My text in this article is in the public domain.
thanks for all the info Mark
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