That was her immediate reaction when I announced that I’ve pretty much decided to take another trans-Canada train ride. Since I’ve already made that trip several times, I must say I thought her response rather harsh. It’s a case of applying your personal standards and tastes to someone else and judging them wanting when they…
(click to enlarge photos) The Depot Inn & Suites in La Plata, Missouri is a railroad-themed hotel with interesting memorabilia on display throughout the facility. And, within a hundred yards of so of the hotel is this lookout, a small structure, heated in winter and cooled in summertime, that overlooks the Burlington Northern Santa Fe…
(Click on the photos to enlarge.) VIA Rail’s Train # 1, the westbound Canadian, leaves Toronto at 10:00 p.m. three days a week (twice a week in winter months) and arrives here in Winnipeg two mornings later. While the train is restocked for its continuing two-night journey to Vancouver, passengers have time to investigate a…
Brother-in-law Peter and I walk over to Toronto’s Union Station in the late afternoon to stash our luggage with VIA Rail, have a bite to eat, then head to the Rogers Center for the last of three games between the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. VIA Rail’s Train # 1, the Canadian, is scheduled…