The railway tracks in the town of Morse, Saskatchewan, stretch as far as the eye can see and even though the tracks look deserted and even a little unused with the flowers and grasses growing in between them, the Canadian Railway has, and always will be, one of the most important ways to connect this vast and different country. Once upon a time it was the only way to go across country and the Canadian Railway has a very extensive history.
Morse is a very small town of about 240, located near Swift Current, which is also a fairly small town of about 15,000 residents. Morse however, is very small, and is connected to the rest of the country mainly by railway. The town of Morse is a place where life is very slow and people take their time to get things accomplished. It does have some industry in terms of grain elevators and the transporting of grain via the railway system, but the town itself is very small. ... continue below the picture...
In the mid-1800s the age of the Railway was in full swing and in Canada the railway began to expand its tracks west across the country, linking up communities and people that had never been able to travel across the sometimes inhospitable terrain before. Nowadays it is not uncommon to see a grain train that is 50 carriages long rumbling across the flat Prairies.
Railway tracks in the town of Morse, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Technical Information:
I photographed this photo with the digital SLR camera model Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, aperture of f/5.6, exposure time of 1/80 sec. on ISO 100, as always I used a original Canon Lens, the focus lenght for this picture was 70mm.