Trains
I'm thinking about heading back out west for a visit, probably not in 2007 but I'm thinking 2008, though who knows I may go next year. However I'm looking at taking the train because I'm going to own up to it, I'm a country girl at heart. Problem is I don't think that there are any passenger trains that run through Calgary (my hometown). For some reason VIA rail avoids Calgary like the plague, it stops in Edmonton and in Jasper and then goes on into BC; I'm definately not going to take the train all the way out there only to drive down from Edmonton in a rental car.
I know know KNOW that trains run through Calgary and I find it hard to believe that not ONE is a passenger train. Why don't the CPR and VIA get along to make train travel nicer or something?
There are trains that start tours in Calgary and then go on through the mountains, but I want to be able to catch something from all the way out east here in that direction.
I might end up flying which I don't really want, I want to enjoy the scenery and change of country from east to west... and that only really leaves driving, JOY a week pent up in a car... I suppose I should get my license, eh?
I know know KNOW that trains run through Calgary and I find it hard to believe that not ONE is a passenger train. Why don't the CPR and VIA get along to make train travel nicer or something?
There are trains that start tours in Calgary and then go on through the mountains, but I want to be able to catch something from all the way out east here in that direction.
I might end up flying which I don't really want, I want to enjoy the scenery and change of country from east to west... and that only really leaves driving, JOY a week pent up in a car... I suppose I should get my license, eh?