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Railway Map Guide: Across Canada

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This map is an excellent companion to the author's Canada by Train: The Complete VIA Rail Travel Guide. While the book provides the detailed information, this map gives a good sense of the overall distances between towns, and how developed or isolated the various sections of the route are. I found it very useful for preparing for my trip on the Canadian, and many people on the train wanted to borrow it for a while.

I found that I didn't use it much on the train, because the book provided much more information with exact mileposts, but I was very happy to have it. We first took an AMTRAK train from New York City to Toronto, and it was humbling to see on the map how little we'd travelled compared to crossing Canada. It is a huge country!

There is a similar map by the same author that covers just the Rockies section of the route. The scale isn't much different than this map, and it has about the same level of detail, so you don't need to buy both, but I don't regret having both. The author did a great job and the map is extremely well constructed, sturdy, usable but not too bulky.