Getting up late (after 8am) we had breakfast (pancakes and maple syrup) to a passing parade of Westjet B737 flights arriving from the east. We then packed up and headed out of Calgary east, then north-east the 135km to Drumheller in the Alberta Badlands, the dinosaur capital of Canada. On the way we passed a grain elevator with grain cars (mainly CN) being loaded.
Arriving in Drumheller we saw empty stack cars parked on a siding. Obviously the downturn in the economy meant that 40’ stack sets were not required. A few kilometres out of Drumheller is the Royal Tyrrell Museum, dedicated to dinosaurs. We parked the car and walked up to the viewing area, before going into the museum. The cost was reasonable ($10 adult, $6 youth), and the exhibits were amazing!
After spending a couple of hours viewing the exhibits, we had a picnic lunch and before heading back into Drumheller I snapped a few of the out of area number plates, including Wisconsin, Texas and other Canadian provinces. At Drumheller I photographed DTTX 742166, a 5 pack 40’ stack car. This one had some dinosaur graffiti on one end car. We returned back to Calgary stopping briefly at Horseshoe Canyon, and coffee (Tim Horton again) at Chestermere, an “on lake” town that looked like some of the canal areas of Surfers Paradise.
Arriving back in Calgary we went to Pacific Place, a Chinese dominated shopping mall to buy fresh fish and live crabs, and have had crab curry for dinner.
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