Canadians understand the romance of rail. The somber wail of a train whistle never fails to catch at my heartstrings and rekindle rail trip memories. Our VIA Rail crosses the entire country with its classic ��Canadian��, rolling through towns and villages in central and eastern Canada, Canadian Shield country in wild northern Ontario, a thousand miles of grain fields on the Canadian Prairies, and finally, the capping glory of the Rockies. For shorter jaunts, The ��Rocky Mountaineer�� regularly crosses the Rockies between British Columbia and Alberta on what��s been called North America��s most spectacular rail trip. The Royal Canadian Pacific��s vintage rail cars from the early 1900��s, restored to mahogany-trimmed perfection, travel Alberta and British Columbia. BC Rail runs up the wild West Coast, VIA runs sprints in eastern Canada and the Maritimes and up to remote Churchill, Manitoba, and Algoma Central Railway runs to the awesome Agawa Canyon north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.