What a great weekend! I managed to get out again to do some photography for the second successive day. Our warm spell continues and it is difficult to forgo the opportunities. We got off to a slow start as the day began quite overcast with snow flurries. It was windy and the forecast was not…
Day: January 26, 2014
Working on the Railroad
Many iconic scenes from the Canadian Rockies feature the railroad. Building of the transcontinental railroad was a seminal event in Canadian history and its construction through the Rockies one of the great engineering feats of its time. Its builders, Donald Smith, Cornelius Van Horne, Lord Mount Stephen and many others are historical figures and its…