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I will answer your concerns by dividing these types of trains into two categories: "Regular Service" which is trains used primarily for transportation (i.e. getting from A to B) and "Heritage and/or cheap disney cruise Scenic" Trains, which are trains that are themselves an attraction, where "the journey is its own reward".
Although trains cheap disney cruise aren't as popular in Canada as they are in Europe or the UK (for many reasons), Ontario does have a network of train tracks for both regular long-distance and short (commuter-type) trips on well-travelled routes between popular Ontario travel destinations like Toronto and Ottawa and Niagara cheap disney cruise Falls.
This is the major player for train travel in Canada. Between Toronto and Ottawa, VIA Rail service cheap disney cruise is good, offering several trips a day at a price higher than buses but with a lot more comfort. cheap disney cruise Other major cities with train stations include Niagara Falls, London, Sarnia, Sudbury, and Kingston. cheap disney cruise Overall there are approximately 100 stations in the province.
However, service is spotty outside of the major Ontario cities. Many towns have lost their train service over the past decades due to service cutbacks by the continually cash-strapped government-owned train system. And some trains still operate between smaller places but only once or twice a day. In other cases, there is service but not where you'd expect it. For one glaring example, there is no VIA Rail passenger train service in Hamilton, a major city ( population of more than 500,000), but there IS a train stop in nearby Aldershot, a neighbourhood in Burlington (Burlington's population of 164,000). There has been talk of restoring service to Hamilton for more than a decade, but nothing has happened so far.
This company operates services in Northern Ontario, including the famous Polar Bear Express which goes all the way up to Moosonee and the shore of James Bay. The Northlander will get you to popular "cottage country" destinations like Gravenhurst (Muskoka region) and Bracebridge (Santa cheap disney cruise Clause's cheap disney cruise Village).
cheap disney cruise The "Government of Ontario train" cheap disney cruise operates commuter trains in southern Ontario, with most them radiating out from Toronto. You can get to Hamilton, Stouffville and other Southern Ontario towns and cities, for example. GO Transit also offer buses. **FUN FACT about GO Transit: A short-lived television series "Train 48" took place on a GO Train. The show had a bizarre format: it was basically just commuters talking to each other on the train. cheap disney cruise Oddly enough, it was actually quite entertaining, topical and even addictive once you got to know the different characters and their crazy lives. A soap opera with satire.
There are a number of "Heritage Trains" in Ontario. Some are steam trains and some are electric trains but all are historic. It's a chance to experience what rail travel in Canada was like back in the old days.
The museum has over 10,000 artifacts including a 1912 Steam Locomotive, a 1947 Canadian cheap disney cruise Pacific Cadillac track inspection car, a Dental Car used in Northern cheap disney cruise Ontario to serve remote communities, cheap disney cruise and Nolans Flagstop station.