I love the trains in Canada.I love the way they go on for ever so that you can wait for fifteen minutes at a crossing while one-hundred and thirty cars (yes I've often counted!) go rumbling by. I love that they are red and huge. I love that the drivers sometimes wave.
But most of all I love hearing their mournful horns echoing down the Bow River Valley at night. That sound is right up there with the call of the loons on a summer morning or the silence of a heavy snowfall for me. It says all you need to know about Canada - spacious, empty and waiting to be discovered.
P.S. I don't mean to sound like a travel brochure!
This is great, I really like your text today! :-)
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely picture and post! I am lucky enough to live near a train trestle and at night I love it when I'm lying in bed and hear the train's whistle as it approaches. When my grandson spends the night with me he always listens for it too.
ReplyDeleteNicely written blog today. I agree whole-heartedly.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful words and picture, you state the atmosphere perfectly! Greetings from MC.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, brings back great memories. We went from Edmonton to Toronto by train one year. Loved every moment of it.
ReplyDeleteThere is something special about trains. I love the cargo trains, big, lots of steel, noisy and working through the nite too. The text is perfect along with a good pic.
ReplyDeleteLove this post and I also love the long trains in Canada.
ReplyDeleteDo you know there are some towns around Toronto that dislike the horns so much that the trains don't blow them there when they pass through? I think that's insane.
I live fairly close to a crossing that DOES allow the horns to toot. I rarely notice the sound during the day...unless I'm at the crossing. But I do hear it if I'm lying awake at night. It's a wonderful sound actually. Not annoying to me at all.
I'm with you on trains! When we moved from Ft. Lauderdale to Ocala, one of the first things we heard were trains in the distance in the night...fantastic.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is a superb night shot!
I love the light in that photo.
ReplyDeleteThe intercity trains here are fast, full and would never pass through a railway crossing as in the photo. Canada seems like another world.
Well, a lot of our trains now rumble by at 190 mph so there aren't any crossings anymore for safety reasons. I was amazed by the length of your American cousin trains that literally seemed miles long in the Pacific Northwest. This shot is superb.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful post. I've fallen in love with this imagery. ;-)
ReplyDeletePaz
I totally agree with you,I like the long trains too!
ReplyDeleteI sometimes woke up at night with those horns blowing and for me it sounds like the America I was dreaming of when I was a kid in France!!