We arrived at Edmonton about 730am and had a few minutes to stretch our legs as a new viewing car was added prior to our journey thru the Rockies. Let me add now that in order to quickly upload several pictures for the Blog, I have changed their size and the quality is not up to my usual standard... so there you have it...quantity today is trumping quality!
The "special viewing car" was special all right: the polarized glass combined with the polarizing filter on my lens created this funky rainbow effect and I had WAY too much fun shooting all kinds of stuff! I especially liked the industrial equipment, electrical towers, and factories!
This poor bear is hanging out by the track looking for grain dropped off the grain cars. MANY animals are killed on the tracks this way. According to one of the Via Rail staff there have been 40 fatalities in the past 2 months. She urged us to write to Via Rail and CN to ask that they make a greater effort to keep the grain off the tracks. They HAVE vacuum cars that remove the grain but they need to do it more often. I plan on sending an email to them. Please consider doing the same. SO MANY bears and other animals are dying!
We are nearing Jasper now. Mountains getting bigger!
I'm turning into a train freak! Loving watching the other trains we cross paths with, noting how many engines are pulling them, how many cars they have and so on....
Rocky Mountain High!
They served champagne to everyone in the dome car to toast as we were crossing the Great Divide.
Mount Robson looming
Another pretty view
Pyramid Falls. Not bad shots for whipping by on a train.
Another Mount Robson shot.
Crossing high above a rushing river.
The view from the back of the train. Leaving the highest peaks behind.
One of my Favourite shots of the day.
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