Back on the train, we were dismayed but not entirely surprised that our tap and drain had not been fixed. During the 4 hour stop in Winnipeg there was a change of crews. Thank goodness. This group seems a little more on the ball than the last one. I felt sorry for them having to pick up the pieces from the last bunch. The new service manager already showed promise when he knocked on our door, checked out the situation and apologized. They would try again tomorrow in Jasper. He offered us a bottle of wine but since we don't drink, he suggested a vest, which we picked up for Glenn later. It's quite nice.
And so, at around noon, we say goodbye to "The Peg".
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Somewhere in Manitoba
A trestle in Uno, in Manitoba's Assiniboine Valley
We should be into Saskatchewan around dinnertime. An interesting tidbit about Melville, Saskatchewan: It was named for the president of the Grand Trunk Pacific, Charles Melville Hays, which makes you wonder why they didn't name the town Hays. The railway tended to name its stations in alphabetical order between division points. But I think Melville is a division point so presumably it could have had any name. Anyway, he had been in England to promote the railway but died on the Titanic.
At our dinner table was a German man who didn't speak much English and a fellow from Squamish who was retired after working for a railway. We passed by many boxes in fields and were told they were for bees for the canola they grow here. Not much growing yet but the fields now had a slightly green tinge that was not there a couple of weeks ago.
Another time change on this night, going back one hour.
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