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The train’s glass-domed rail cars
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But first, the bar cart.
You don’t have to order a Caesar or
mimosa—it is only 10 a.m., after all.
But you may feel like toasting the gorgeous scenery and your good fortune.
We’re sitting in comfortable seats with
more legroom than one person needs,
peering through a glass-domed rail car
at some of North America’s most spectacular alpine scenery.
Our train rides parallel to the TransCanada Highway, a route I’ve seen
countless times from behind the wheel.
But as the tracks wend through locations inaccessible to cars, the view
takes on new angles and I discover
previously unseen details.
We pass the little white Kilby
General Store, built on stilts in 1906
so that it could survive floods from
the Harrison River (it did). We
roll through Agassiz, named for an
Englishman who hoped to find gold
on the river banks (he did not—and
switched to ranching). We pass the
town of Hope, whic