Rocky Mountaineer

Rocky Mountaineer is a Canadian tour company offering Western Canadian vacation packages that operates trains on four rail routes through British Columbia and Alberta.

Background

The company was founded by the Armstrong Group in 1990, and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the busiest privately owned passenger rail service in North America, having transported over one million passengers since 1990.

Rocky Mountaineer was awarded the "World's Leading Travel Experience by Train" in 2005, 2006 and 2007 at the World Travel Awards,

Equipment

RMV operates 60 railcars in their fleet:

• GP40-2L locomotives, ex-Canadian National Railway, rebuilt by GEC - Alstom
• 35 Canada Car and Foundry single deck coaches, ex-Canadian National Railway.
• 10 Colorado Railcar (now US Railcar) bi-level Ultra Dome coaches, with wrap-over view windows on the top level.
• An unknown number of Colorado Railcar single-level dome cars

Previous equipment: GE B36-7 locomotives leased from BC......
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