(Click on the photos to enlarge.) The Canadian normally spends 90 minutes or so in Jasper, unloading trash, restocking the dining car as may be needed, and washing the windows in anticipation of the spectacular scenery to come as the train heads deeper into the Canadian Rockies. Today, however, because we’re making up time from…
The first item today is about Amtrak’s Downeaster. If there is a better example of public demand for rail transportation, I can’t think of it. About a dozen years ago, people in several New England states started pressing for a train that would run north from Boston and up into Maine. After a decade of…
The Rocky Mountaineer stopped in Kamloops for our first night and, since there are no sleeping cars on the train, we were all bussed to one of the local hotels for the evening. The next day, it was back aboard for a full day of magnificent scenery and fabulous food, concluding with our arrival in…