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Transrail, Inc

Transrail travelers ride in private rail cars attached to VIA Rail trains and receive special food service aboard these cars. On overnight trips, private sleeping cars are utilized. The tours include hotel and dining at the destination city, as well as motor coach hotel transfers and guided tours.

Transrail offers rail adventures, which are one day, round trip excursions, rail getaways, most of which are three night trips and rail cruises, which are longer, multi-destination trips.

A rail cruise might include ten days and nine nights of travel between Toronto, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, with first class rail travel between those cities, hotel stays in each city, gracious dining and various city tours. A rail getaway might include two nights and three days of travel in Montreal and Quebec City.

However, the most unique offering is the rail adventure, a one day rail trip. This is unique since it is very difficult to find one day rail trips, even though there are many travelers out there who are looking for just that. An example of a Transrail rail adventure would include leaving the Ottawa train station at 9:15 am, enjoying a full breakfast onboard, arriving in Montreal just before noon, boarding a motor coach, with guide, and enjoying a day of sights and activities in Montreal. The return train would leave Montreal around 4:30 p.m., later on Saturdays, and the traveler would arrive back in Ottawa by 6:30 p.m., later on Saturdays.

Transrail provides a listing of all tours on their site and they can be contacted at (866) 70TRAIN (toll free in North America) or info@railwaypatrol.ca.

For the solo traveler, or anyone who enjoys meeting and traveling with others, these rail adventures are very appealing. If any readers know of anything of this sort in the U.S., please let me know, so I can share the information on the Train Traveler site.