Rail travel is a relaxing and scenic way to reach Vancouver. Pacific Central Station is the Vancouver terminus for VIA Rail and Amtrak.
Rail Services VIA Rail VIA Rail is Canada's national passenger rail service. The company provides passenger services to Vancouver from Alberta and eastern Canada. "The Canadian" is a three-day journey that travels between Toronto and Vancouver via Edmonton, Alberta, and Jasper, Alberta. It connects with Amtrak service in several cities.
> VIA Rail details Amtrak Amtrak provides connecting passenger service to Vancouver from points across the U.S., via Washington State. Daily, direct services are offered between Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver.
> Amtrak website The Rocky Mountaineer The Rocky Mountaineer is a two-day sightseeing trip along one of three routes: Whistler-Jasper, Alberta; Vancouver-Banff, Alberta, or Calgary, Alberta; or Vancouver-Jasper, Alberta. Named the World's Leading Travel Experience by Train at the 2007 World Travel Awards, the Rocky Mountaineer is a spectacularly scenic journey featuring canyons, mountain ranges, glacial lakes, turbulent rivers and waterfalls. The purpose of the trip is sightseeing: travelling speed averages just 50kph (30mph) and the train moves even more slowly through particularly scenic areas. Arrivals and departures are out of the Rocky Mountaineer terminal in Vancouver.
> Rocky Mountaineer details The Whistler Mountaineer/ Sea to Sky Climb The Whistler Mountaineer/Sea to Sky Climb is a three-hour, 118km (73mi) sightseeing rail tour between the four-season resort town of Whistler and North Vancouver. Snaking through the famous Sea to Sky corridor, it takes in Howe Sound, the Stawamus Chief monolith and Cheakamus Canyon. The Rocky Mountaineer, a two-day sightseeing rail tour between Jasper, Alberta, and Whistler, connects with the Whistler Mountaineer.
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