It's a great way to see the amazing beauty and landscapes of the Canadian West while traveling in utter comfort and luxury.

I am an editor with Lonely Planet, and last year I rode on the Rocky Mountaineer train on their first passage to the West Line from Vancouver to Banff National Park.

Rocky Mountaineer deserves to win the Sustainable Train Journey Award quite simply because it takes its sustainable tourism responsibility seriously.

It works hard to protect the areas the train travels through and protect nature and culture along the route.

Rocky Mountaineer, selected to causes that it supports one, is reducing hunger and the other is protecting wildlife.

Every year on their anniversary, the company contributes funds to the Tree Canada National Greening Program in honor of each one of their employees.

The train has contributed more than 13,500 trees in British Columbia.

Rocky Mountaineer has taken steps to reduce its carbon footprint.

Train travel is as much a Z, 80% more efficient than driving.

E definitely felt like I was fully alive was I was riding the train.

The train really highlighted the incredible diversity and beauty of Western Canada.

They are some of the most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen.

One was Hell's Gate, which is a part of the Fraser River, where the river just gets squeezed into these very steep, very narrow passages.

My favorite site along the whole trip was when the train would curve around one of those robin's egg blue glacial rivers that were just tumbling.

It was the only time I almost wish like I was off the training in a kayak.

The Rocky Mountaineer service doesn't stop when you get off the train.

It's really great about setting up extra excursions and extra day trips for you.

When I got off the train was, I took the Banff gondola up to the top of Sulfur Mountain, where I could get 360 degree views of the Rockies from Banff and had some experiences that I could never really have anywhere else.