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One of the iconic shots of the Agawa Canyon Tour Train has always been the shot looking down on the park from the Lookout. Only problem (for the day-trippers anyway) was by the time you scampered up the 372 steps to get there they'd already uncoupled the power from the front end of the train and run it around to the back end in preparation for the return trip. We solved this problem by booking the Canyon View "Camp Car" for the last week of operations several years running (until the price encroaching the $2K zone combined with the horrifically lumpy mattresses and the constant septic system backups made it no longer overly attractive to us). We'd climb up there almost every day to wait for the train and after it arrived, fight the onslaught of stair-climbers to get back down to the bottom. There are always those tour passengers who were so in awe of their own athletic prowess that they'd take great glee in running to the top ahead of everyone else, so we'd time it just right that we'd meet them about 20 steps down just to see the looks on their faces when confronted with a couple of (upper) middle-aged folk loaded with a ton of camera gear coming back down and telling them "only a few steps more and you're in for a beautiful view"! After we'd got back down and had lunch, and all the tour passengers had been herded back on board we'd shoot the train as it was departing, another opportunity not available to those who didn't actually stay there.
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Caption: One of the iconic shots of the Agawa Canyon Tour Train has always been the shot looking down on the park from the Lookout. Only problem (for the day-trippers anyway) was by the time you scampered up the 372 steps to get there they'd already uncoupled the power from the front end of the train and run it around to the back end in preparation for the return trip. We solved this problem by booking the Canyon View "Camp Car" for the last week of operations several years running (until the price encroaching the $2K zone combined with the horrifically lumpy mattresses and the constant septic system backups made it no longer overly attractive to us). We'd climb up there almost every day to wait for the train and after it arrived, fight the onslaught of stair-climbers to get back down to the bottom. There are always those tour passengers who were so in awe of their own athletic prowess that they'd take great glee in running to the top ahead of everyone else, so we'd time it just right that we'd meet them about 20 steps down just to see the looks on their faces when confronted with a couple of (upper) middle-aged folk loaded with a ton of camera gear coming back down and telling them "only a few steps more and you're in for a beautiful view"! After we'd got back down and had lunch, and all the tour passengers had been herded back on board we'd shoot the train as it was departing, another opportunity not available to those who didn't actually stay there.

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Wayne Shaw [256] (more) (contact)
Date: 10/06/2009 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 105 (search)
Train Symbol: CN 633 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Mile 113.9 CN Soo Sub (search)
City/Town: Canyon (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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  1. Haha awesome story. Fitness buffs tend to be quite.. uhh. proud of themselves :)

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