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July/August 2000
Volume51Issue4
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Things are reportedly looking up for Amtrak, which plans to add some routes and upgrade service on existing ones. The Coast Starlight, one of its best and most popular trains, follows a route similar to that of the train I took. It doesn’t travel through the Feather River Canyon and certainly doesn’t take a week, but Bob Johnston, our onboard lecturer, called it “a lovely train.”
VIA Rail remains in my future. A two-day daylight journey from Jasper, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, to Prince Rupert, on the Pacific Coast, tugs at me (888-VIA-RAIL;