Maybe you don't get to see the trains... one crosses Canada on the mainline roughly along the Trans-Canada highway through these parts and another one crosses the Eastern/Mid United States - that is the one we get to see it crosses into Canada after going through North Dakota.
Here is what it looks like (first the train itself and then the open box car from which various musicians perform)
Melanie Doane was the big act on this year's train (not sure how she plays a fiddle when it is is -25 but she does). It was fun.The first two times we saw the train are some of my favorite memories ever. It didn't come to Estevan (that actually is part of the "good part" of the story), so we had to drive to North Portal to see it. To make it even better, it came in (or was supposed to) at 11pm, so it was a late night road trip. The kids were little (maybe 3 and 1) and had a great time singing and celebrating with them. The next year we went down to North Portal again - but this time it was super cold and the train was really late... so they opened the loading dock of the station - put some coffee and hot chocolate on in there - and invited everyone in until the train showed up. Again, good concert, good memories (like the super long line of cars all the way home at 1 am) and the kids were excited to see Santa.
Not the same "Santa Excitement" tonight - but still nice and it brought back good memories. :)
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I forgot to tell you guys that we saw the holiday train going by on our way to Estevan on friday night. That was fun for the kids to see - unexpectedly.
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