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I spent some frequent flyer miles on a ticket to Winnipeg about 8 years ago and then drove about 1.5 hrs west to Portage La Prairie with the express purpose of photographing the Canadian. The train arrived exactly on-time and was pulled by two well-maintained F40PH-2 engines facing east and the train itself looked like something out of a model train set (all the cars perfectly matching and in beautiful shape). I also got great shots of CN and CP traffic there (VIA used the CN tracks - had to hustle from the VIA/CN depot across about 100 yards of ground covered in 8 inches of snow to get the CP trains passing the boarded-up CP depot). I also succeeded in obliterating the local Super Eight hotel bar's supply of Moosehead, so it was a very nice trip.
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