[lenaitch]

Agawa Canyon tour train has a new $500-a-seat VIP section

Offering 'a luxury experience to passengers looking for a truly memorable ride,' the Stone Gardner will be available for booking this upcoming season

www.sootoday.com

Interesting. Value-added is always good.

It seems the car came up from Wisconsin & Southern which is owned by Watco which bought the Soo Subdivision (Algoma Central) from CN. It seems it is named for Lucy Stone Gardner, who was the wife of the President and CEO of Wisconsin & Southern back in the day.

 

[Allandale25]

Borealis Ridership Tops 18,500 in First Full Month - Amtrak Media

Amtrak and states impressed by positive response to new service CHICAGO – Preliminary figures from the first full month of state-sponsored Borealis trains

media.amtrak.com

 

[dowlingm]

Both groups.io and railroad.net have posts saying that Keewatin Railway Company (central Manitoba) have acquired two (or possibly more, but two at minimum) C1 bilevel passenger cars originally built for the LIRR.

 

[Allandale25]

 

[Allandale25]

 

[Krypto98]

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Similar thing happened last week at the washago drawbridge on the Bala sub, stopped train traffic for a good 5-6 hours