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It’s Thanksgiving Weekend and the end of Sleeper Plus (Touring Class) for another season.......also the last runs for the “Park” Dome Observation Cars on the Ocean until next June (they return briefly at Christmas on several departures)
VIA intends to run one “Budd” consist on the Ocean this winter which includes a “Skyline” Dome and it will cover two departures each way per week. The other four departures each way per week will use the Renaissance equipment which doesn’t include a Dome.
The Montreal <> Gaspe train (the former Chaleur) continues to include a Skyline Dome year ‘round but on days it runs combined with the Ocean, there is no access between each train.
Here’s the Ocean at Truro NS on warm, summer-like Thanksgiving Sunday, October 9 with the second last westbound “Park Car”