An Easterly Album Part 2

Homeward bound from my down east trip, and I was pleasantly surprised to get a whole series of additional photos unlike any I have gotten before.

You can see my previous album here if you didn't see it yet:  An Easterly Album Part 1

And now, here are the additions from the Halifax to Montreal trip from yesterday and this morning.

Between Amherst NS and Sackville NB the track traverses the huge expanse of the Tantramar Marshes, one of the biggest salt marsh areas in North America.  A large part of the marsh near the rail line is "intertidal", and regularly fills with water twice daily.  This is the first time I've ever gotten some really good pictures of this remarkable land-and-waterscape at high tide.  At low tide, the water you see here will disappear leaving behind tiny puddles and a lot of scummy residue around and between the plants.

In the middle of the marsh area, the train stops at Amherst which has a beautiful Victorian stone railway station.

Another imposing building as the train arrives in Moncton is the Cathedrale de l'Assomption.

One of the little pleasures of this expedition is sipping a nightcap in the dome car as the train rolls westwards along the shore of the Baie de Chaleur, heading into the sunset.

In the morning the train approaches its final destination in Montreal.  I've ridden trains in and out of the city to or from the east ten times now -- but this was the first time I ever saw an actual ship in the St. Lambert Lock of the St. Lawrence Seaway as the train rolled across the canal.

And that's a wrap for this quick little trip to Nova Scotia!