I'm not sure I fully agree with that, as the few times I have ridden the
Canadian it was busy from Vancouver to Jasper, where a number of tour
groups would get off and take a bus to Banff and do the circle route
back to Vancouver, or fly out of Calgary. I've found that if a double
bedroom was unbookable from Vancouver to Toronto it was often bookable
from Edmonton (and points east) to Toronto.
The last time I rode it in March last year I was surprised at the number
of Canadians using the train as transportation, rather than foreign
tourists using it as a land cruise. Quite a few people got on or off at
intermediate points such as Saskatoon and Winnipeg, as well as Kamloops
and Sudbury.
Craig
Paul and Janice Clegg wrote:
Today, the Canadian probably carries a predominance of tourists in sleepers traveling for much if not all of the route between Toronto and Vancouver so the Canadian is likely closer to achieving 100% occupancy now than prior transcontinental trains that catered more to a transportation market.
Paul
