Back in the car, I headed deeper into the park, along the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway, to Lake Louise.

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The Saanich Police Department on Vancouver Island said the incident took place on April 6 on a busy stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.

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Craning our necks to see the front of our train nose out of a tunnel as the back of it enters, down below we spot the Trans-Canada Highway, laid on top of the original Big Hill track bed.

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