'Gold Leaf' Carriage, Rocky Mountaineer - Leaving Kamloops enroute to Revelstroke, British Columbia, Lake Louise & Banff, Alberta, Canada

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After setting out from Vancouver the day before, and an overnight stay in Kamloops, in the early morning of the 1st September 2012 we boarded the Rocky Mountaineer and commenced our days journey.  Initially following the South Thompson River, to Sicamous then across to Revelstroke and over the Alberta border to Lake Louise and ultimately to our destination, Banff.
After travelling all day the previous day through the dry Fraser River and desertified Thompson River Canyons we would now be heading into very different country dominated increasingly by pine forests swiftly flowing white water rivers, large lakes and steep sided snow capped mountains.
This however would bring new challenges for photography.
More trees beside the rail line meant much greater difficulty getting decent landscape images as trees rushed up into frame out of nowhere. It was also more difficult to get longer views and the weather would become cooler with clouds and mist increasingly problematic. 
With the train speeding along, trying to plan and compose shots was very much down to just plain luck so I set the camera on landscape and a rapid shutter speed and the images that follow are the result, for better or for worse.
If you recognise a place in these images I have not managed to identify or geo-tag I'd love to hear from you.
   

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Thompson-Nicola / City Centre (show map)

Taken on: September 1, 2012

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