My REVIEW of VIA Rail's NEW Siemens VENTURE TRAIN between OTTaWA and MoNTREAL 

Never ever taken the train......thanks for the insite on your trip.

While all the fools are busy crashing in to each other and getting stuck in snow banks, train travelers speed on to their destination. Trains travel in intermediate snow falls even without the help of snow plows and, when the going gets rough, they simply plough the tracks. Weather immunity is one of many advantages of rail travel.

Nice new modern trains. Wish we could get new trains (And the train network) in Western Canada too. I could see this being busy running between Edmonton, Calgary and Banff. Unfortunately Canada is imbalanced in the rail network world, always has been, sadly.

Wow these trains are so cute and modern, I can’t wait for them to enter service 😊😅

I love OTTaWA and MoNTREAL

16:44 was curious on how the doors opened, didn’t think they had enough room between the platform for the doors to open

Thanks for the video, wish there were more train stations like this

What kind of assistance would you get when you press the button in the bathroom? Obviously Via employees gotta be REALLY careful with that sort of thing

Enjoy your new trains! Looks classy and modern.

Canada still can’t decide on a platform height?

Thanks for the ride !!! I will try it as soon as possible . Any vending machines on board ?

One thing I notice that is a major safety hazard is the upper luggage rack, no dividers and no safety strap along the front. If there were ever to have an emergency brake activation luggage would be flying everywhere.

Looks like a seriously underwhelming "achievement" - how about a dedicated high speed corridor already. Or maybe lay one concrete sleeper, somewhere in Canada for pity's sake. I just watched a great video about Israeli high speed trains and it looked great.

I find the updated ORC leather seat way too hard and a curse for shorter people, how are these seats? And I so wish they would give every seat those foot rests.

These are made in USA trains, and the ADA rules dictated wider aisles at the cost of narrower seats so wheelchair can traverse the whole car: the wheel chair doors to ground level are not in every car so wheelchair passengers need to traverse at one or more cars to get a to a door with the wheelchair lift.. And the seats, to save money, can't be reversed which means half the people travel backwards, When the LRCs were first introduced in 1981, they were like that and the public backlash forced VIA rail to rething this and make seats reversible or reverse the trains. VIA is repeating same mistake but the backlash now is lesser because they started to do this with the awful black seats on the LRCs. The inside of train is very aseptic and lighting is certainly not "luxury". The Montréal metro cars have more interesting lighting than the Siemens cars. Too bight inside the car = can't see outside at dusk/nighttime. The bike rack requires luggage be taken out of luggage rack , luggage rack be disassembled before bike can be hooked. Considering how much space is wasted around the car, you'd think they could have sqeeked the bike rack on its own (which can be used for skis in winter). The seats without window is not acceptable. Then again, VIA put curtains on LRCs that obscure half the windows.

It's a nice video, but the completely unnecessary music is driving me nuts.