The Agawa Canyon Train Ride.

Its now Wednesday afternoon, we took our train ride on Monday, sorry for the delay in posting.  We left Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday morning and traveled to Serpent River Campground 180 kilometres east, we stayed here last year on our way west, it has a really good book swop, managed to swop 6 books which should keep us going for a few days. The wifi in contrast was rubbish, took me over two hours to upload the photos, then switched me off, then sent me a message asking for an extra $50. I just managed to stop myself from throwing the computer out the window, the rest of the evening was spent cursing Bell.                                                                                  

The locomotive used to pull the train to Agawa Canyon, from all accounts its +50 years old

Laving the Soo, the Trans Canada below us and Lake Superior on the horizon.

                                                                               

One of the many lakes we went round.

These happy trail riders waiting at a crossing for the train to pass.

The train cars  are fitted out with flat screen tv's showing the drivers view of the track.

This is The Montreal River Hydro Electricity plant, and below looking through the opposite side window, the dam and the curved railway trestle we have just crossed over. 

                                                                                     

Entering the Agawa Canyon.  Montreal River is at mile 92 on the line, 10 miles further on we start the decent into the canyon, from mile 102 to mile 114 the line drops 500ft. 152.4 metres a gradient of 1.1% which is quite steep in railway terms.

At rest in the canyon.  We had 1.5 hours to wander around taking photos here.

The Agawa River.

Beaver Tail Falls South and below Beaver Tail North.

Another view of the Agawa River.

On our way back to the Soo, sorry don't know the name of this lake, or the name of the one below, there are so many lakes in Ontario.  The land of rock, trees and water.

                                                                                     

Avery good day out,  7:30am at the railway station back at the Soo just after 5:30pm made for a long day but worth it. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, looking through glass and a rock & rolling train.