24 - Sunday. February 2, 1992 — North Shore News

HIGH PROFILES

scenic Rocky
Mountaineer
tour a special
way to travel

Peter Armstrong’s co. receiving
high praise from all quarters

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PETER ARMSTRONG @ NAME: Peter Armstrong
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hears that train a comin’. @ AGE: 39
@ RESIDENCE: West Vancouver
By Surj Rattan e Born: New Brunswick
. e CUPATION: President,
News Reporter Great Canadian Railtour Co. Ltd.
@ FAMILY: Wife Wendy, two

And thanks to the successful daughters, one son

operation o1 his North Van-
couver-based Great Canadian
Railtour Co., so do a lot of other
people around the world.

The West Vancouver resident
oversees the operations of the rail
company, which offers scenic rail
tours from Vancouver, through
the Canadian Rockies and into
Banff and Calgary.

And Armstrong and his crew
should be proud of the success
they have achieved in the short
time the company’s Rocky Moun-
taineer train has been in opera-
tion.

Last year the International
Railway Traveler, a magazine
based in Louisville, Kentucky, and
aimed at railway enthusiasts and
industry tour operators, named
the Rocky Mountaineer as one of
the best sightseeing trips in the
world and the best in Canada.

The company’s two trips, which
this year will operate from May 24

Vancouver to Banff and Calgary.
Both trips stop overnight in
Kamloops.

The service was originally
operated by Via Rail, but Arm-
strong, along with other partners,
took over the train excursion from
the federal government when Ot-
tawa decided to cut 50% of Via’s
passenger service.

The federal government orginal-
ly received over 20 private-sector
applications for the right to
operate the Rocky Mountaineer;
Armstrong’s group wa: awarded
the operation.

The company began its opera-
tions in Vancouver, but moved to
North Vancouver, across from the
Park and Tilford Shopping Cen-
tre, last March.

Armstrong says one of the best
indicators of the Rocky Moun-

taineer’s popularity was when the’

company was written up in the In-

Photo submitted

to Oct. 8, take passengers from THE ROCKY Mountaineer, operated by the Great Canadian Railtour Co. in North Vancouver, offers
Vancouver to Jasper or from See Relocating page25 passengers two different scenic train trips each summer.

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