Passenger trains. Freight trains. I’ve got to admit I like them.
They seem so Canadian. At least they used to. Trains no longer bring together people across this vast land like they did.
As kids, in addition to travelling through B.C. and Alberta by train, we would sometimes put coins on tracks and, after the lumbering beasts rolled over them, marvel how the flattened metal turned into something completely different. I only learned later our game was illegal. Sorry about that.
I did ride a freight through Alberta/BC and also took the passenger train back to TO from BC when a teen.
I hitched out west a couple of times. It was the thing to do.
