Canada 12

Quebec drivers are rude and impatient!  They are worried just about themselves and to hell with the rest of the public.  I am surprised that there aren't more accidents.  The highway speed is 100 km/h which is about 70 mph.  If you go any slower than 85 you will be run over.  And heaven help you if you stay a fair distance from the car in front of you!

Our last day in Montreal found us at Exporail - Le Musee Ferroviaire Canadien (The Canadian Railway Museum).  For those of you living in SAC and have gone to the Railroad museum in Old Town - well, I think this one will outdo it.  It is a HUGE place that has about 40 restored engines and railway vehicles located in a warehouse that you can walk among and in, and another warehouse that holds about 30 more that haven't been completely restored, but you can still walk among them.  Then outside the warehouses are old engines and cars that need a lot of work.  All in all, they have about 150 vehicles that were used with the Canadian Railroad.

Now after you browse the first warehouse you can take a working streetcar that was used in the early 1900's in Montreal to take you to the other warehouse.  One of the stops of the streetcar is what is called Miniature barn.  It is full of miniature trains like probably most of you guys had when you were young.  Then the kids can take a ride on  a miniature train around the area.  Once you've seen that then you can catch a passenger train for a short ride around the property.  We also saw a short film that was filmed to be an IMAX film called The Rocky Mountain Express.  It is supposed to be shown in the fall of 2010 so watch for it.  And sitting in the mail warehouse were two  old gentlemen (probably in their 80's) that were telegraphing notes to a military camp down by the other warehouse.

The greatest part was that when we showed up, there were a bunch of cars in the parking lot and tons of kids!  We weren't sure what was going on, but we decided to go in anyway.  When we got to the ticket counter we were informed that yesterday and today were free culture days between 10am and noon.  So we got in free!  The way we look at it is that we were able to get into two museums free and that covered about two days of our campsites.  Not a whole lot, but better than a sharp stick in the eye.