EXCLUSIVE: The Weather Channel and Bell Media’s Discovery Canada are set to ride the dangerous I-80/I-15 interstate ring highway. Weather Channel has greenlit docu-series Rocky Mountain Wreckers, ...

Wow. That's what most people say when they spot the Canadian Rockies for the first time. Those steep cliffs, blankets of forest, and jagged peaks that seem to scrape the sky — what else can you say?

As our Rocky Mountaineer train winds through the spectacular scenery, I fall into chatting with the woman standing next to me on the open-air platform between carriages. She tells me she has been on ...