Day Two (Thursday): West and North On the trip out of Toronto and into the city suburbs (It’s a big city, with a population of nearly three million), there wasn’t a lot to see. Ontario has varied topography and we realized that looking out the window or even ascending to the observation car didn’t initially …
Crossing Canada by Train (1)
Day One: Leaving Toronto and Starting the Trip Last Monday evening, our Amtrak/VIA Rail Maple Leaf from New York to Toronto fell behind schedule by about fifty minutes. But with the engineer really moving us along, we made it into Toronto’s Union Station only five minutes late. We had worried about how we would entertain …