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Acadian Railway Inaugurates Excursion Sevice Between Northeastern US and Eastern Canada

The Acadian is a ten-car deluxe passenger train featuring vista dome, parlour car, observation car and two dining cars, one of them a dome.

Tours will be offered from early June to mid-September, followed by special tours designed to view the New England foliage from mid-September through late October.

Acadian Railway will also operate Lake Champlain service, a deluxe section of private cars that will travel behind Amtrak's Adirondack service, and will leave Penn Station for Montreal every Tuesday and Friday, leaving Montreal for Penn Station every Thursday and Sunday. The Lake Champlain service will offer gourmet, multi-course meals served in the parlour car as well as other luxury amenities.

Other tours provided by Acadian Railway include:

North Woods Tours, including 8 and 9 day tours of the rugged Maine coast, Bar Harbor, and Nova Scotia, with the option of hooking up with the Amtrak Downeaster or Acela Express and continuing on down the New England and mid-Atlantic coast.

Rail Cruise Tours, 6 to 12 day tours of Montreal, Maine and the Maritimes including rail and cruise voyages along the New England coast and the St. Lawrence River.

Atlantic Maritime Tours are 5 to 10 day tours throughout New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, with an option to hook up with VIA Rail's Ocean overnight train to Montreal.

The Short Tours are 3 day getaways from New York to Montreal, featuring the Lake Champlain service northbound and an Air Canada return flight.

For many reasons, this new excursion rail service is very exciting, not the least of which is that it will bring visitors into a remote and beautiful region of Maine, the North Woods, while having significantly less of an impact than either automobile or bus travel would have.

For further information call (866) 91-TRAIN.