Famous train, famous location. This photo was taken on August 08, 1979, FORTY-FOUR years ago, when I visited British Columbia and Alberta with my friend Ron Davis. This is Morant's Curve, a little east of Lake Louise, made famous by Canadian Pacific's corporate photographer Nicholas Morant. It's almost impossible to take a lousy photo in this part of Canada. The train is VIA RAIL's eastbound "The Canadian", which no longer operates on this route over the Canadian Rockies, instead using the more northerly CN line via Jasper. Word now has it that the ex-CP Budd passenger equipment, built in the mid-1950s, may not be operating that much longer on this train. Nothing lasts forever, and those cars are as old as I am.