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Another area that is very, very, very, very popular is the Fraser/Thompson Canyon areas. The Cisco Bridges are very famous (except in Canada) around the world as an excellent rail fanning location. The two most dramatic areas in BC and Alberta - rail road wise - are the Rockies and Fraser/Thompson canyons. In fact, you could have an argument as to which ones are best. If you want to model Jasper (where I spend many years living there) and Kamloops, then you are modelling CN, Via - Canadian, Rocky Mountaineer, and American Orient Express. If you are modelling Banff, then CP and Rocky Mountaineer. If you model the Fraser/Thompson canyon (you're going to love this) then you are modelling all of the above. The Canyons used to house CP track on one side and CN track on the other. In a rare moment of intelligence from the upper echelons of executive decision making in CP and CN, an agreement was reached to have directional running. So heading east from Vancouver, both CP and CN run on CP track, and heading West through the canyon, both run on CN track. Oh, and don't forget the CP business train - it goes through the canyon a couple of times of year. It is CP F7 units in the old maroon and grey colour scheme, with maroon old passenger coaches - ya gotta love it. And if modelling the canyons, don't forget the rail lube guy who looks like Yule Brenner, with big overalls, big red suspenders and no shirt, driving around on a large high railer, lubing all the rail lube points. And if modelling the Cisco Bridges in the late spring, early summer, don't forget to have natives net fishing by the bridges for salmon.
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