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It’s a long and interesting journey. I’ve done it, but I’m not sure I would do it again 😃.

Trains are awesome, thankfully here in Europe we have a lot of them. I will always take the train, it might add another day of travel but it's much more comfortable and relaxing.

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Oh no (rolls eyes) a train you say, how inconvenient (already packing "train clothes") Such a shame 😁🚂

There are three: Adirondack (NYC-Montreal 10hrs), Maple Leaf (NYC-Toronto 12.5hrs) and Cascades (Portland-Vancouver BC 10hours -- we are getting new trains in 2026 autumn, *yay*).

It's a long (and I do mean *long*) ride but it's very pleasant.

Don’t worry, there’s a nice 2+ hour delay at the checkpoint.

I ❤️ Amtrak. For overnight trips I recommend getting a sleeper. The meals are included (except for appetizers & alcoholic beverages), & during the day you can retreat to your own private compartment.

You'll have enough time to watch this compilation of snow plowing trains 😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bwf...

Wave to the Rip Van Winkle bridge when you pass through Hudson. A lovely train ride

May the devil keep you safe on your journey!

Yep

I have taken this train before! Unfortunately I ended up sitting near someone who brought fish to eat. Other than that it was a lovely (but very delayed) ride

I do love a train ride.

Excellent food options at Moynihan!

Bon voyage! Please be careful; this winter the ice in America is especially dangerous.

John Candy would be proud

I took that train one time. I stayed the night in NYC then continued to Atlanta for DragonCon! Wonderful trip. Great train!

🛤️😍

Train travel is so civilized. And yes to the free hot drinks!

The dream indeed! 🚄⏪⏪🥰

Wants it preciouss. 🩷🩷🚊🛤️

That particular train ride is beautiful! Goes along the Hudson from upstate into the City. Enjoy!

Hoot! Hoot! The Iditarod of sci comm.

Trains are underestimated for short/medium distance travel, period. (where service is available, obviously)

For example, Minnesotans talk about a train conduit from Duluth to Mpls. Guess which carrier I load/unload exclusively to Duluth? Delta.

Here in Italy, the Milan-Rome pair was one of the most profitable flight routes in the world. …right up until the high-speed rail link went in. Now it’s a no-brainer to go by train: no security, no turning off your computer for takeoff & landing, no trek to & from airports.

Amtrak’s big problem is that freight has routing priority much of the time railroad.net/actual-wordi...

🚂 🚉 I regularily commuted by train for a few years between San Diego County and Orange County for work. The Friday afternoon Amtrak cafe/bar car was the hottest club in town.

I read somewhere that the per-passenger CO2 emissions of a *coal* train are lower than an *electric* car (with some assumptions for the generation sources of the electricity and number of passengers in the train). Don't have a source handy.

NYC/TO is the highest volume air route on the continent and is a modest distance. In proper first world countries that'd be an HSR.

I LOVE the Maple Leaf. The stretch from Albany down to NYC is particularly beautiful

Be on the lookout for wacky hijinks & colorful characters

Yay, welcome to NYC! We did the NYC🚆Montreal route one time, which was mercifully only 11 hours, but sadly it hadn't snowed and the view was all brown (then it snowed tons in Montreal, of course).

Unless there is a polka band overhearing your conversation about the cancellation and offer you a ride in their van.

NORTH AMERICA BABY

Train! Choo choo!

Any extra seats (it’s sold out)?

Years ago, when I lived in Montreal, my friend and I would take the train to NYC - to see shows and friends. It was always wonderful and exciting!

Choo choo! I love trains

Agreed, but Noah Webster didn't.

Yay! I’m not gonna lie: I had Shinkansen videos pulled up and was watching them while flying to and from SF last week.

A train beats a plane any day. 13 hours isn't long enough!

Not a good time to be traveling. I tried and failed to make it to the east coast today. Trying again tomorrow morning.

Yay trains! And, this gives me the chance to share one of my favorite ads, which just happens to be about trains. You'll have to imagine the summer bit, though. Hope your presentation goes well! www.youtube.com/shorts/nrfmR...

At least it’s not heading to Busan!

Shame you did the leg from Albany to NYC in the dark, it’s very pretty going along the Hudson River.

Trains rock. I’ve only been able to use them to go from near-Jersey to NYC (because here in the USA, and PA in specific, trains were destroyed for the automotive industry’s personal profiteering), but I found the comfort & noise levels of travel by train to be FAR superior to travel by plane.

🎉🎉🎉

Train is how we travel around in the civilised countries

Where's the great speed train corridor we were promised 30 years ago? STILL WAITING

Are you going to see @neildegrassetyson.com ? :)

My parents had friends in Ithaca, New York. We took a train from Buffalo to Ithaca and motive power was 4-8-4 steam locomotive. I guess that is telling of my age. A later trip was diesel powered.

Wow, epic journey Katie, glad you got there safe in the end. I once went from Durham (N England) to Montpellier (South coast of France) for a conference by train. 1000 miles each way, 11 hrs on trains plus connection time at London and Lille. A very chill time both directions.

Gentlemen. Ladies. Those that lieth betwixt. Behold. TRAIN.

It’s always a bonus when some mishap replaces one’s flight with a long train ride, and one’s coworkers offer sympathy and admiration of one’s stamina for travel despite one loving every moment of it.

Agree.

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Ive heard Katie talk about some of the most complex physics going, and her brilliance is making it understandable to people who know nothing about physics!

Ah! My Dad was an old Chicago boy. Shall have this framed someday. fineartamerica.com/featured/new...

Memories: saved pennies for a whole year for train ride from Portland to Seattle with grandma, overnight - in a sleeping car. Little compartment by the door for shoes that were polished while you slept. Porters there to help with suitcases. Wonderful food, white tablecloths. Those were the days.

if trump goes all the way in destroying the US & China takes over, at least there would be a 3 hr train on that route.

I've taken this train from Waterloo via Toronto to NYC many times! Keep an eye out for bald eagles in the Hudson valley.

Stock up on the snack packs. Exclusive to VIA:

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So that is less than London to Glasgow but taking 3 times longer. Way to Go.

Safe journey!

They do that now? When we made the crossing a few years ago the border guys came onto thd train. No passengers had to get off.

Yep, that’s happening in a few stops

The calls thing sounds like a plus

Very polar, not so express 🙂

Hmm I have bose q35 II and haven't had that issue. I have had a few train trips to Montreal. I do tend to listen to podcasts, audio books etc but maybe my hearing is start to go😀...getting old can be fun, I guess it is better than the alternative 😅

Enjoy your trip! The longest I've done is Kitchener>Union on the GO, but I'd love to do a longer trek someday.

I loved the Canadian Via Rail the several times I've taken it. It's perfect for Montreal<->Toronto, but long distance the comfort starts to feel less impressive

I did the round trip drive from Williamsburg VA to Banff in the summer of 2019. Looked a lot like this.

Trains are the best. Have a good ride!

Okay, maybe you can write another possible ending the Universe... Blizzard.

It’s really the only option if I want to get to my talk!

Very smart. I love traveling by rail, but have been on trips where the dining car runs out of meals. Good luck on your NYC event.

Wave when you get to Amsterdam. (I’m about 15 minutes north of there)

Before the border it is a VIA rail train in all but equipment (VIA crews, VIA catering — the only Amtrak train where American alcohol is banned, etc). Via Rail does not do quiet cars.

Yeah it doesn’t seem to have one! It’s a pretty short train. But I haven’t investigated fully yet. I’ll commit to a seat after the border crossing.

I’ve wanted to take that train.

Not gonna lie, I’d enjoy pretty much every minute of that journey, but then I’m British and love train travel (most of the time when it works anyway). That looks like a significantly prettier one than I make every day to work, though mine does take 12.5hrs less each way 😅

It has a cafe car with some nice-seeming tables. Not, like, table service or anything though.

I hope the trip is better now than when I took it 20+ years ago

I'm so happy for you!

I still treasure the memory of when Grandad managed to get me into the cab of a switch engine. We probably moved about a 100 feet. I was the happiest little kid on the planet.

The airlines would NEVER.

I love this train! Have caught it all the way to NYC also, it's very peaceful.

Best of luck with any further diversions.

Drink up before you get across the border. The ride gets considerably bumpier!

More legroom too I'd imagine. 💺

Love this for you! The train is generally such a more civilized way to travel

In most European trains, you can ask for hot water (if you have your own tea bag). I’m not sure how American train canteen operators feel about this, but it’s a nice thing.

this is amazing ... I only *just* learned about this train because I saw it listed at Moynihan train hall in NYC and thought "huh, that sounds like a fun way to get to Toronto" 13 hours is a lot tho curious to hear how it goes / excited to follow along

Yesssss, have fun! I've done the Philly to Montreal route and loved it. But a big part of that was that my parents let me buy a GameBoy to take with me. (I was 10.)