This page includes images from Ontario and Alberta provinces.
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More of my Canadian train home
March 1-3, 2008

A two-level Park car (last car on train) housed the Mural Lounge.
[Windows all around and on the back door provide lots of light into the seating area. Seats with armrests line both sides of the car. A man sits and reads in one on the left.]

The forward end of the Park car had the stairway to the glass-domed upper level.
[A slightly curved stairwell with seven steps is in the middle of the car and has an opening to the upper level. A table with fruit and drinks sits on the left side of the car. Two people standing and talking are on the right side of the car.]

Looking through the front window on the upper level.
[The train is on a curved section of track getting ready to cross a bridge. Even though this view is from the last car, because the train is curving, the side view of the yellow engine and the first four silver cars are visible. The view of the remaining cars is just the roofs of them. The roof of the car immediately in front of the window is corrugated. There are tree covered hills beyond the bridge and snow covers the ground.]

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Traveling across Ontario and Alberta provinces.
March 2-3, 2008

Stretch break outside Sioux Lookout, Ontario VIA station
[Two-story station building and ground around it is completely snow-covered. People are scattered walking beside the train.]

Gauging one's location by reading names on the water towers.
[The white cylindrical tower with a light green design has Sious Lookout near the top. There is an antenna tower on either side of it and other smaller buildings around it all with snow on them.]

Interesting old building amid the naked trees near Sioux Lookout
[The building is a two-story white block with a curved roofline above the middle section. The window are square and it appears paint is chipping off the building. Lots of leafless trees beside and around it as well as in the foreground.]

North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta (It was snowing heavily which blurred the image.)
[Midway across the river looking at two bridges across the river. The snow is piled up on the water mostly on the right, so that side is probably partially iced. The background of the image is mostly a whiteout scene due to the snow.]

Jasper Lake, Alberta (It is frozen.)
[The lake looks like a wide river which disappears around the bend to the right behind all the evergreens which actually line both sides of the ice. There appear to be a few small patches of water, but it may just be thinner patches of ice. The sky is completely cloud-covered so the image nearly appears to be a black and white one even though it is in color.]

The Rocky Mountains backdrop to a mostly dry Jasper Lake
[The lake area just looks like ground with some frozen water spots. There are small hillsides at the lake's edge, but the Rocky Mountains in the distance tower above them. Lower levels appear to be evergreens while the rest is snow-dusted.]

Totum pole near Jasper, Alberta train station (Window reflection in image removed by F. J. Garver.)
[Totum pole is probably at least 20 feet high and has a series of faces one on top of the other. The face at the top has a beak like a bird.]

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