Unlimited drinks and majestic views of the American Rockies: is this the most spectacular train journey in the world?

Not the most conventional hello.

On a boat on the Colorado River , a fisherman waves at us, then turns away and begins to pull down his pants to expose his (rather large) buttocks.

'We call it the Moon. River,” laughs our train guard, explaining that this unusual act is considered a good-natured prank. We received what the train crew calls the “Colorado salute.”

Welcome to the journey from Denver, the capital of Colorado, to the town of Moab, Utah, aboard one of the most spectacular trains in America: the Rocky Mountaineer.

The 370-mile journey takes you through the Rocky Mountains, with bald eagles soaring above and deer zooming by. trails Rising from desert meadows, you soon wind between jagged, snow-dusted peaks and negotiate vast red-tinted canyons.

Cowboy country: Tom Chesshyre experiences Rocky Mountaineer er the first train American Above, the train passes through De Beque Canyon in Colorado on its way to Utah 'Rising from the desert grasslands, you soon wind between jagged snow

Rocky Mountaineer trains have begun has

Unlimited drinks and majestic views of the American Rockies: is this the most spectacular train journey in the world?

Not the most conventional hello.

On a boat on the Colorado River , a fisherman waves at us, then turns away and begins to pull down his pants to expose his (rather large) buttocks.

'We call it the Moon. River,” laughs our train guard, explaining that this unusual act is considered a good-natured prank. We received what the train crew calls the “Colorado salute.”

Welcome to the journey from Denver, the capital of Colorado, to the town of Moab, Utah, aboard one of the most spectacular trains in America: the Rocky Mountaineer.

The 370-mile journey takes you through the Rocky Mountains, with bald eagles soaring above and deer zooming by. trails Rising from desert meadows, you soon wind between jagged, snow-dusted peaks and negotiate vast red-tinted canyons.

Cowboy country: Tom Chesshyre experiences Rocky Mountaineer er the first train American Above, the train passes through De Beque Canyon in Colorado on its way to Utah 'Rising from the desert grasslands, you soon wind between jagged snow

Rocky Mountaineer trains have begun has

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