The train ride from Los Mochis through the coper canyon can be described as "an all you can eat seafood buffet for your eys". The canyon doesn't begin for a couple of hours into the 10 hour train ride to Creel, so you can afford a bit of a nap as the warm morning sun puts you gently to sleep after an early morning start, (5am) to get to the train station via local bus with three Germans you had met at the hotel, to buy your economy ticket for 7am departure. Our 13 year old Lonely Planet guide had told us to catch the first class train, but at twice the price we decided to back ourselves with the economy ticket. What our Lonely Planet guide didn't tell us was that the first class train was recently replaced and rebranded as the economy train, so Rees and I travelled in aircondidtioned, spacious, comfort for the entrie trip at half the price.
At stages the trip feels like a slide show as you pass through each of the 60+ pitch black tunnels and come out and to have a unique, epic landspace flashed in front of your eyes. The senery is amazing as you find yourself staring out the window for hours as the train follows the river running deep through the canyon. Occasionally spotting a corn crop, or a small shack hidden amoungst the trees, or stopping at a "train station" that consists sometimes of no more than a sign, where a few people get off to go who knows where.
We stopped at Divisadero where you can get off the train view the canyon at it's enormity. It is just increadably huge, going for as far as the eye can see, four times larger than the grand canyon in the USA. The train ride continued for several more hours until we pulled into our destination, Creel, and got off to haggle with the local hotel touts.