We leave the Hotel without breakfast and get taken to the railway station in Baff.
It's a very exciting moment when the famous train pulls into the station and we all get aboard. I haven't done any train travel for a long time.
The first bit of country we travel through looks a little on the dry side.
We're following the Thompson River back towards Lake Louise
There are three young people on board our carriage to look after us. By the time we get to Lake Louise, our sumptuous breakfast is just about devoured.
The new passengers have boarded the train and receive their breakfast as we follow the Kicking Horse River.
As we are going through the Spiral Tunnels, we rapidly lose altitude.
The sun comes out and the world becomes much greener.
We are now following the Rocky Mountain Trench, a 1000 miles long trench which forms the divide between the Columbias and the Rockies.
Now and then, our train has to stop and wait for a long goods train to pass. They often have 2 engines at the front, 1 in the middle and another 1 at the end. Some of them carry shipping containers stacked two high.
Somewhere along the way we pick up a river by the name of Illecilleweat which flows in the same direction as we are travelling.
The Illecillewaet River is a tributary of the Columbia River located in British Columbia, Canada. Fed by the Illecillewaet Glacier in Glacier National Park, the river flows approximately 62 kilometres ... Wikipedia
We come through Craigellachie where on November 7th, 1885 the last spike was driven into the railway line that links the Atlantic with the Pacific.
Craigellachie is a locality in British Columbia, located several kilometres to the west of the Eagle Pass summit between Sicamous and Revelstoke.
We are passing through a town by the name of Sicamous
Sicamous is a village in British Columbia located adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway at the Highway 97A junction, where Mara Lake empties into Shuswap Lake via a short narrows. Wikipedia
and from there onward follow the Shuswap Lake. It is glorious weather and the houseboats have started to come out of hibernation. Apparently, the water is always pretty warm which is why the lake is so popular.
Shuswap Lake is a lake located in south-central British Columbia, Canada that drains via the Little River into Little Shuswap Lake.
For some of these photos, I have to stand on the platform by the open window as my seat is on the wrong side of the train. Luckily, it is quite warm.
It is now very lush, there are lots of farms. I see cattle grazing and fields being irrigated.
Food and drinks are being served at regular intervals. The three young people are working hard preparing and serving it all as well as keeping us informed and entertained with commentaries.
We certainly don't require much food once we are settled in Kamloops.
Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia in Canada, located at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River near Kamloops Lake. Wikipedia
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