A Sisyphean task, it still has to be done each Christmas.
In this jigsaw, The Canadian travels through the Southern Rockies, with the observation car, The Banff Park, in the lead.
Assembling this puzzle brought the usual feeling of satisfaction, as well as evoking memories of a train ride from a long time ago.
In 1958, I was a child looking through the train window in wonder, seeing the Rockies for the first time. For that young girl, the journey from the flat Alberta prairie to the mountainous Skeena Valley was a geographic marvel. I still remember the rocking and creaking of the train as I lay in the small snug world of the upper berth.
I've had a fondness for trains ever since.
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