As some of the Edmonton <> Calgary story overlapped (or underlay?) the Skeena story, it was hard to keep it out. Northwestern is exactly right and the Edmonton<>Calgary trains also provided a number of Prairie links, like Regina<>Edmonton or Saskatoon<>Calgary. Or Calgary<>Smithers, for that matter! Sometime in the future I might remain healthy enough to follow up with a thread on Canada's "Other Corridor."Yes, an interesting post. Thanks. I keep hoping for an Edmonton to Calgary train to allow a loop from Vancouver-Kamloops-Edmonton-Calgary-Kamloops-Vancouver. A chance to ride both the VIA and Rocky Mountaineer on the same trip.
A few months after the 1985 return of the Skeena and restoration of the west part of the Super and the Edmonton <> Calgary train-off hearings and a bad turn of events in Edmonton city government, I moved to sleepy, quiet, Energy Crash depressed .... Denver (the Calgary of the U.S.), so for all those narratives, 1985 is a good stopping point.