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Originally Posted by SpongeG
so now that someone here did it - can you explain the customs issues involved since most of what we get here is second hand...
you clear customs in vancouver right? and than the train stops at the border again? what do they do there if they do indeed stop?
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I took the Cascades to Seattle from Vancouver last December. You get your bags scanned at Pacific Central station, but just across the US border in Blaine, the train stops, and the US immigration/customs agents pull up in their cars and come on board to check passports and ask questions. They have quite a few agents, so the whole process takes about 15 minutes for the whole train. I didn't come back to Vancouver by train, so I'm not sure how the RCMP works on the Canadian side.