Canadian Rockies by Rail 2009

Vancouver BC RR yard 9/19/09	Ready to pull out for Whistler day trip (bashfull attendent)	SRO between cars
Still at sealevel - Squamish	Cheakamus River	Nice Canyon
Wreck ahead so had to walk across bridge & bus to Whistler	View of Whistler from top of gondola lift	View from Gondola car
Walk back to train	Headed back to Vancouver	1st day of 6 day tour 9/20/09
Fraser River	Our Train	Nice Cabin on the Thompson
Good views via the windows Good service all day long	Spences Bridge	Nice dining - too much food (what did he just get caught at?)
Stretched out in the vestabule as we arrive Kamloops	Kamloops to Banff 9/21/09 Shuswap Lake	Another tunnel
Cocktails	View from the downstairs dining area	Near Revelstoke
Not sure the guy behind her agrees with Michal	Few miles to Banff	Banff Station
Banff to Lake Louise via Yoho Park by bus 9/22/10	One of the Spiral Tunnels portals These cut the grade in half by spiraling the tracks twice over lower tracks Link: Spiral Tunnels	Michal at Emerald Lake
This shot even shows the top of the Mountains	The dying trees are a bit of a sad sight	Start of a steep drop of river
The obligatory view from the Fairmont across Lake Louise	And looking back at the Fairmont	Lake Louise to Jasper by bus along the Icefields Parkway 9/23/10
Beautiful river cut	Michal at Peyto Lake	Glacier Buggies on Columbia Icefield
Columbia Icefield Face	More Columbia Icefield	Michal & Glacier Buggy
Neil & Icefield	Big Horn sheep	100s of beautiful falls
Just another mountain & lake	Elk greets us as we approach Jasper	Nightlife in Jasper
Jasper to Kamloops 9/24/10	Mount Robson 12,972'	That's us
N Thompson as we near Kamloops	Kamloops to Vancouver 9/25/10 Along the Thompson	Stewards keep us informed and well "hydrated"
Along the Thompson	Thompson and Frazer merge	Freight train crosses river
Back in Vancouver Great Trip