Aug 3rd, ViaRail Winnipeg towards Edmonton

I was sitting in the skyline car all the time right after leaving Winnipeg soaking in the gorgeous and agricultural bountiful areas west of Winnipeg reaching for into Saskatchewan. I like the green and gold-brown hues of the grain fields, the yellow of the canola and the blue sky with the horizon far far away. Dotted by small and larger villages and farms here and there looking mostly prosperous. I already liked it 3 years ago when taking the bus to Banff and now the scenery is the same again in the skyline car with the additional view of the blue sky above.

Manitoba Wheat Field West of Winnipeg

Manitoba Canola Field West of Winnipeg

Manitoba Rye Field (I believe) West of Winnipeg

Old Style Grain Elevator

Fish Pond? or Water Reservoir or simply Water kept away from the Fields?

Rivers MB: typical Small Town Street Layout

Rivers MB: Typical Example of a Small-Town Trainstation and Grain Elevator (Old Style)

Rivers MB: Typical Example of Houses along the Road running parallel to the Railway.

Canola Fields in Saskatchewan

Wheat Field in Saskatchewan: Very similar to Manitoba west of Winnipeg

Rye and Canola Fields in SK

More Grain Elevators (Melville SK)

More Small Town Train Stations: Melville SK

We even managed to cross a fleeting path with Zandra and Steve when our train was going through Goodeve SK and they watched us going by and Margaret saw them.

Goodeve SK: This Cell Tower Base was the exact Location where Zandra and her nieces and nephews were supposed to stand! However they were about 30m to the left and I focused so much on the Tower Base that I missed seeing them. But Margaret saw them! Good eyes!!!

Some more evening impressions from Saskatchewan:

Wheat Field in Saskatchewan

Late Evening Impressions

The Assiniboine Valley deserves some special mentioning for its beauty (some of it is due to its wilderness and floodplanes being preserved somewhat). Unfortunately the pictures we made are all bit scrambled.

Crossing Steve's and Zandra's path at the end of their trip (Link to their Trip Page) was definitely a high-light despite me missing them because I focused so much on the base of the tower ;-). And here Zandra's view of our train standing at the cell tower in Goodeve:

Our ViaRail Train passing Goodeve SK.