{"id":692,"date":"2010-07-27T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T03:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=692"},"modified":"2016-12-05T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:11:49","slug":"train-a-vapeur-to-wakefield-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/07\/27\/train-a-vapeur-to-wakefield-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Train \u00c3\u00a0 Vapeur to Wakefield #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOne morning we left Ottawa after breakfast for Qu&eacute;bec across the Ottawa River for Gatineau. We had a reservation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainavapeur.ca\/\">steam train to Wakefield<\/a>. As I have been doing (thus far to no complaints), I took my camera.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe bought tickets at a small building surrounded by gardens of blooming flowers while the engine was being prepared at the head of the train.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-9qhdQff\/0\/X3\/train_tickets2-X3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-9qhdQff\/0\/M\/train_tickets2-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of the building where tickets were sold.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-BJNKrkS\/0\/O\/train_engine_flowers2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-BJNKrkS\/0\/M\/train_engine_flowers2-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of the engine behind some blooming wildflowers.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-qnNDw5W\/0\/O\/train_engine_being_prepared2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-qnNDw5W\/0\/M\/train_engine_being_prepared2-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of the engine with steam venting around its wheels.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOur reservations where for a small four-person cabin in the coach <em>Club Riviera<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-qC3fD7x\/0\/X2\/train_coaches2-X2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-qC3fD7x\/0\/M\/train_coaches2-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of a sign pointing the way to the various coaches (left or right).\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-Bpk353h\/0\/X2\/train_finding_club_rivera2-X2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-Bpk353h\/0\/S\/train_finding_club_rivera2-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of Trudy and dad walking to our coach (Club Riviera).\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs we got underway, the city quickly gave way to Birches and Aspen and White Pines and Red Pines and grass and blooming wildflowers and the Gatineau River running alongside the tracks.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-bzfVHPS\/0\/X3\/train_window_view2-X3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-bzfVHPS\/0\/S\/train_window_view2-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of the view out a window of our train.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-vfMrFm6\/0\/O\/train_window_trees2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-vfMrFm6\/0\/M\/train_window_trees2-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of trees along the Gatineau River as seen from the train.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-2ksJ4Rv\/0\/X3\/train_window_sailboat2-X3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-2ksJ4Rv\/0\/S\/train_window_sailboat2-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of a sailboat in the Gatineau River as seen from the train.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-rSx38pd\/0\/X2\/train_window_canoes2-X2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-rSx38pd\/0\/S\/train_window_canoes2-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of canoes stacked up along the bank of the Gatineau River as seen from the train.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-bHHVXBQ\/0\/X2\/train_window_bridge_and_canoe2-X2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/07\/i-bHHVXBQ\/0\/S\/train_window_bridge_and_canoe2-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of a covered bridge near wakefield (in the distance) and a man paddling a canoe (in the foreground) along the Gatineau River as seen from the train.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>To be continued&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning we left Ottawa after breakfast for Qu&eacute;bec across the Ottawa River for Gatineau. We had a reservation for the steam train to Wakefield. As I have been doing (thus far to no complaints), I took my camera. We bought tickets at a small building surrounded by gardens of blooming flowers while the engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}