It began snowing sometime before dawn this morning and by the time I’m picked up in front of the Bluesky Bed & Sled there are 3-4 inches on the ground. Even at 7:45, it’s still dark. I’m the last to board the bus, which has already collected two dozen or so people from hotels and…
The ride from Winnipeg up to Churchill – some 1050 miles and almost due north – takes almost two days. We left Winnipeg at noon on a Sunday and arrived in Churchill the following Tuesday morning. First impression of the scenery along the way — pretty bleak, mostly flat terrain with scrubby trees that got…
VIA Rail train # 693 arrived in Churchill this morning at about 8:15, more than two hours behind schedule and that was fine with me. At 7:00 a.m., our scheduled arrival time, it would have been cold and dark. At 8:15, it was merely cold – 27 degrees with a 40 mph wind blowing in…
For years, I’ve had a dozen or so of the world’s more interesting or exotic train trips on my bucket list. So far I’ve managed to cross off several, marking them “done”. These include the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express in Switzerland, the two trans-continental trains in Australia, the Indian Pacific and the Ghan,…