Room had a living room w/fireplace, a balconied porch, bedroom, kitchenette. The Moose Hotel-giant wood beams, wood walls, fireplaces, hunting trophies. We did get fed a nice dinner on the train. Got stopped behind a Canadian Rail train stopped on the tracks in front of us, it had broken down.
Phones with flashlights to the rescue !! No fire, a tripped something or other in the galley's fire suppression system.
Had some genuine excitement when our car started to fill with some smoke an orderly evacuation (including those eating lunch) down the steep steps and out to the open- air observation deck even though all the lights went out, just as we entered a very long, dark tunnel. You go in, loop around, go out, go in again, loop around and out-presto you changed altitude. Tunnels, some short, some long, even the famous spiral tunnels, shaped like a capital letter "L". Drinks flow all day-Booze, beer, soft drinks up, wine with meals down. A seated gourmet breakfast and lunch, lovely choices, nice portions. Eagles, big horn sheep, bears, mountain goats, sheep,rivers, rapids, lakes. Lumber floating downstream, mills, farm lands, hay fields, horses. waiting for trains to pass going west loaded with potash, oil, coal, lumber, limestone, sulfur. Little track -side collections of houses. Everyone waves as we pass through small towns, villages. Wonderful noise, the clickety clack, the whistle. An open viewing platform in between cars down, shiny brass hand rails, smooth ride. Big,comfy seats up top via windy, narrow stairs, an individual dining area below.
What follows is a sort of stream of consciousness collection of notes made mostly while on that very special train.Īn early morning bus to the train, gleaming blue and gold paint, flags, a 2 story plexiglass domed car for each seventy passengers on the "Gold" plan. Just in for the day, she unloaded, and then reloaded a new batch of eager Alaska- bound passengers before her return for us in 10 days. Early the next morning, before we were driven over to The Rocky Mountaineer train for our most amazing trip into the Canadian Rockies, we watched Cunard's Queen Elizabeth quietly snug up to her berth. An overnight stay right on the waterfront at The Pan Pacific hotel, which is also home to the busy cruise terminal. An on-time flight to that jewel of a Canadian city, Vancouver.
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