text: Taking VIA is reasonable if you are going along the Quebec CityWindsor Corridor like between Toronto and Montreal but it gets really expensive and timeconsuming if you want to go greater distances nnAnd it is not so great a travel experience in ten years I have been on only one train that arrived less than ten minutes late The loading and boarding is awkward especially compared to most good European train systems and the food service amounts to railway robbery Bring your own sandwich even if it is from a station Subway and save yourself ten bucksnnStill it is not all that bad Last year I dropped my bus pass on a train and the employees found it called me on my cell and had it put on the next train so that I could pick it up at the station that I had gotten off at I still had to wait around for hours but since it was my own stupid fault I think they accommodated me as well as could be expected