Canada 2009 - Thinking

In less than seven days we (Shamina and me) will be in Calgary, after 24 hours travelling (about 16 hours in the air) after leaving Christchurch.

What is planned? I don't actually know apart from being told to have a visa for USA. We will be staying with Shamina's niece and her husband in Calgary, and they have a large caravan, so hopefully we will get over to Vancouver, and maybe down to Marias Pass on the BNSF in Montana.

I hope to spend a couple of days railfanning, but just looking at the DVD "Canadian Pacific - Heart of the Rockies", the trans Canada highway seems to be close to the CP mainline. Then there is the CN railroad that runs northeast out of Calgary, plus the Lethbridge Viaduct a couple of hours south of Calgary.

Tim has told me to come back with at least one image of a BN Green Machine, but that maybe a hard task this many years after the Burlington Northern (BN) and Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) merger.