Well...... We have come over 1000 miles east from La Push on the Washington coast. We are in Medora North Dakota at the home of Teddy Roosevelt National Park. Today's leg was mostly over flat high speed interstate. We made great time and were treated to a railroad extravaganza. Our trip on Rt 1 in Canada and through all 704 miles in Montana paralleled the mainlines of two the today's biggest railroads. The Canadian Pacific and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe provided great entertainment as the miles rolled by. Even the highway has snowsheds in Canada in areas where you can plainly see miles of snowsheds protecting the railroad from avalances on the other side of the canyon. In Montana the BNSF's brightly colored engines can be seen hauling mile long coal trains. In fact, I can hear their whistles, and the deep throb of their engines as they roll through Medora while I compose this message.(only 100 people live in Medora so its all very close to the mainline track). We have seen at least 20 trains today. In one logation three trains were meeting each other. There is a major yard in Billings so we started the day with a view of a loaded coal drag with two units on the head end and one pusher. Patti got this shot of one of them about 50 miles from the Montana/North Dakota boarder. Oh... I almost forgot. The scenery around here is pretty nice too!!!
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