I’m up early in Swift Current because I’m still running on Ontario time. The morning drive puts me in the Alberta rolling foothills. Dry cattle country with small number of cattle on huge dry acreage. It’s Canada in its finest. Starting of with sunrise.

cattle and the long train. The train is built for efficient hauling of goods. They are very long compared to Ontario and they are powered differently. Here one engine pulls, an engine is pushing in the middle and one or two are pushing in the rear.

The middle guy is in backwards

You don’t see the end in the distance