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It was sometime in 1989...I think maybe the spring. My parents took me when I was 3 or 4 years old from Schenectady to NYC. We took a Empire Service train as a recall that was the first one of the day when the station opened up. Now, the funny thing is, I think we went into Grand Central instead of ...

Skelly and all: I understand this subject as I have traveled to Canada via the CR/TH&B/CP Budd car operation,Amtrak's Maple Leaf,Adirondack and Montrealer in my travels. It seems to me that customs and immigration has become a big hassle nowadays to anyone traveling on trains. Was this the down...

I ride the Maple Leaf to and from Toronto once a month. I was just wondering how they used to do customs on the trains actually. Find it funny they did it enroute. Though the last few times I took the Maple Leaf, the train wasn't delayed at the border at all. We arrived in Toronto actually 10 mintue...

The ideal budget for VIA for me would include probably include extending the Toronto-Niagara Falls all the way to Niagara Falls, NY to or from the Amtrak Empire Service trains for more service other than the Maple Leaf.

I'll chime in as I have started riding Amtrak recently at least once a month now. I take the Maple Leaf in both directions from Rome, NY to Toronto, ON which while shares the same route as the Empire Service train does on the New York portion, its not really a Empire Service train. I also know it st...