It can be a terminal experience sometimes adjusting, for example, at the corner of Terminal and Main in Vancouver, many of us savour the old Great Northern International coming in from Seattle and Canadian National Super Continental from back east. The VIA Rail station building still looks much the same but the days of the CNR station, through the tunnels of the past created the following bit of prose.
TRACKING YESTERDAY
I’m here at Vancouver’s Via Rail station, hoping I didn’t lose too much train of thought, while in their dining room enjoying a delicious two-patty burger on this occasion and digesting perhaps a bit of time warp.
It’s a good feeling recalling the days of the CNR and trains like the Super Continental plus the Great Northern International to the U.S. Thinking back to its symbol of a mountain goat is making this old goat feel a bit sentimental, and caught by so much change, so fast, one must confess.
The old days in this setting can engineer a tad bit of steam and self esteem. It’s hard to cut the mustard and relish, thinking back how things used to be, a bit of a challenge to ketchup compared to prices that not so long ago bought a steak dinner at Hy’s Encore. Six dollars plus change for a burger at the train station to bite or byte into what now is virtual history.
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