Train late to Jasper

First of all, you will note that I missed a couple days.  Just as we were leaving Winnipeg, I blogged on a document because I couldn’t get on the blog.  Tried to paste it this morning and it didn’t work so will blog the first part of the train trip and Winnipeg later.
Upon arriving in Winnipeg, we were on-time —even a little early.  Everyone was celebrating the fact.  Little did we know that that was the end of that! After that we just kept getting further behind.  Freight trains have the right-of-way ALWAYS.  It seemed like we would just be up to speed and then have to pull over.  Sometimes there were two trains in a row.  Some of these freight trains are two miles long, some have 200 cars. Of course, once you get behind, it just builds.  We were suppose to arrive here in Jasper at 1 pm yesterday.  We arrived here at 5 am today.  It started out that we would be 2 hours late, then 4 hours late, etc. until they just didn’t say.  Chuck and I sat in the chairs in our room and slept. Somehow the Stewart missed us when they asked if we wanted the beds put down.  We did get some sleep and we did get here.  Chuck told me that he felt grouchy (I couldn’t tell??).
When we left Winnipeg we were in the prairie.  The fields are immense.  There were many fields of canola, wheat and oats.  Some fields of potatoes, range land, a little alfalfa, soy beans. Chuck was a source of information as many people did know what the crops were or anything about the soils.  We really enjoyed the prairie — a lot more interesting that trees on both sides of the track.
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