What is the population of New Brunswick?
The rooms on the Renaissance cars have a bench, beside a large picture-window. Behind a door is a wc and wash basin which becomes a shower in the deluxe bedrooms. At night, there are “do-it-yourself” pull down bunk beds, although your attendant is willing to help with its mysteries. And so to sleep under a duvet, gently jiggled by the train. Next morning, somewhere in New Brunswick, we woke up to a moving band of trees and more trees. The long snake of the train curved around a corner, water glinted in the distance. We saw white birch trimmed with green fir, small painted houses with cedar shingle roofs, heard a musical refrain of rattle, rattle, click. At breakfast, (Continental, Scrambled Eggs and Smoked Salmon Benedict or Blueberry Pancakes) people sat with furrowed brows, working out the puzzle on the place mat (Find the Halifax Old Town Clock twice, and three lobsters, the Bluenose three times and two fossils.) Then it’s back to the Bullet Lounge where they serve coffee, tea, frui
