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Canada’s ultimate railway journey

JL;DR SUMMARY The Rocky Mountaineer offers one of the most scenic train routes in Canada, particularly the First Passage to the West from Vancouver to Banff. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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CanadaVancouverWildlifeHistorical SitesRocky MountaineerTrain JourneyRocky MountainsBanffGoldleaf ServiceLake Louise

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
"The sun had barely risen when we boarded the train in Vancouver at Rocky Mountaineer's private station, waved off by staff to the strains of a bagpiper."
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
"Unlike some of the world's other great train journeys, you don't sleep aboard yourself, breaking the journey in Kamloops the name comes from the indigenous word tk'emlups, which means "where the rivers meet.""
Banff, Alberta, Canada
"Ordinary tunnels arent enough for the gradients and the Rocky Mountaineer curves through a series of spiral tunnels before reaching the highest point of the journey, at 5,332ft above sea level and the final station at Banff."
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
"Nearby Lake Louise is equally unmissable  theres a reason its Canada's second most visited tourist attraction after Niagara Falls."
United States
"With several different routes through Canada and the US, I was travelling from Vancouver to Banff on the company's original itinerary, First Passage to the West, a two-day journey from the west coast into the mountains."

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