Any Saskatooneers here?

[Ron in Regina]

No, but I do have a young relative who just moved there about 4 months ago, got
a job right away. Guess there is work there for the young people.
I would hate the climate, but I'm sure there are some things there that are nice,
afterall it is canada.
I will go through there in the fall when I take the 'great train ride', can't wait, don't
know if the train stops there for awhile, or not.

Train travel isn't what some of you might remember it being. The last
time I took a train, it was about 1984 and I traveled from Regina, SK
to Salmon Arm, BC.

The train was to have left Regina at 11pm...but didn't arrive into Regina
until 5am....and by the time I reached Salmon Arm it was 26hrs behind.
The passenger train was pulled over onto side tracks several times, for
several hours at a time, to allow freight trains to pass by before continuing.
At the time, booze was still free on the planes, but not on the trains...

The two hour flight from Salmon Arm back to Regina was actually cheaper
than returning by train, if you can believe that. I don't regret that trip by train
though as I got to see some very cool things (like going over the Kicking Horse
River or some of those corkscrew like tunnels), but once was enough. Please
take this advice in calling to confirm that your train is more or less on time
before you ever leave your home, as six hours on a wooden bench throughout
the night waiting for a late train is a poor way to start a trip. Why it was so
much cheaper to travel east to west (compaired to west to east) on a train
was beyond me.

The train stations (Regina & Moose Jaw) in southern Saskatchewan that I'm
familiar with have both become casinos since I last took a train.

 

[bobnoorduyn]

I think we need more trains, fewer planes.

Heyyyyyyy! Wait just a cotton pickin' minute there...

 

[bobnoorduyn]

Ron; If I only wanted the end product I would buy it, but it is the act of fishing that I enjoy; the quiet, the beer, no phone, no worries, ahhhhhh. The prospect of a big jack or pickerel is just a bonus.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Bob, I get it....but I get my quiet with no phone and few worries when I'm
out with my dogs. I love to eat fish & game, but not to fish and hunt myself.
The beer I do best in the evenings on my deck behind 6ft of chain link. To
each their own though, eh?

 

[bobnoorduyn]

Well Ron, you are right, or as my Pappy used to say, "de gustibus non est disputandum".

 

[Risus]

I didn't know there were trees in Saskatchewan until I saw this sign
Tree --> (I love this sign) - Jordon Cooper :: Photo Gallery and Digital Dumping Ground - Fotopages.com

LOL, direct hit! :lol:

 

[Risus]

Bob, I get it....but I get my quiet with no phone and few worries when I'm
out with my dogs. I love to eat fish & game, but not to fish and hunt myself.
The beer I do best in the evenings on my deck behind 6ft of chain link. To
each their own though, eh?

I guess ma bell didn't think that that neck of the woods was worth the effort to get phones out there???? 8O

 

[dirkdigler]

Regina has some big advantages over Saskatoon:

Average income a few THOUSAND higher than Saskatoon!
Average house price? Almost $50,000 LESS
Crime? The violent type less in Regina than Saskatoon

Regina gets a bad rap, but financially, it makes more sense than Saskatoon!

 

[talloola]

Oh, how fun! I love train travel. You get to see great scenery and the fall should be beautiful. I think we need more trains, fewer planes.

Yeah, I love the trains too, kind of expensive, but if I had the money, I would
take lots of train trips, there are many of them in the states.

 

[talloola]

Train travel isn't what some of you might remember it being. The last
time I took a train, it was about 1984 and I traveled from Regina, SK
to Salmon Arm, BC.

The train was to have left Regina at 11pm...but didn't arrive into Regina
until 5am....and by the time I reached Salmon Arm it was 26hrs behind.
The passenger train was pulled over onto side tracks several times, for
several hours at a time, to allow freight trains to pass by before continuing.
At the time, booze was still free on the planes, but not on the trains...

The two hour flight from Salmon Arm back to Regina was actually cheaper
than returning by train, if you can believe that. I don't regret that trip by train
though as I got to see some very cool things (like going over the Kicking Horse
River or some of those corkscrew like tunnels), but once was enough. Please
take this advice in calling to confirm that your train is more or less on time
before you ever leave your home, as six hours on a wooden bench throughout
the night waiting for a late train is a poor way to start a trip. Why it was so
much cheaper to travel east to west (compaired to west to east) on a train
was beyond me.

The train stations (Regina & Moose Jaw) in southern Saskatchewan that I'm
familiar with have both become casinos since I last took a train.

The train trip from toronto to vancouver is very punctual and doesn't
inconvenient passengers much at all, good meals, nice sleeping accomodations,
no wooden seats, as it is for the tourists, and they want them to keep coming, and not get discouraged.

 

[bobnoorduyn]

The train trip from toronto to vancouver is very punctual and doesn't
inconvenient passengers much at all, good meals, nice sleeping accomodations,
no wooden seats, as it is for the tourists, and they want them to keep coming, and not get discouraged.

Ummm, I could be wrong, but I think Ron was referring to the seats at the station, waiting for the train.

 

[talloola]

Ummm, I could be wrong, but I think Ron was referring to the seats at the station, waiting for the train.

When I was younger I took the train a few times from vancouver to kamloops area, and the seats were wooden slats, very nice quality, nicely built, but very
hard, and if you didn't have a pillow or a soft coat to sit on, or something to put
your head back onto, it was very uncomfortable.