Fresh out of the BCRail backshop, former MLW RS18 has emerged as a completely rebuilt locomotive in the form of CRS20. "C" for Caterpiller, "RS" for Road Switcher and 20 for 2000 horsepower.

A view overlooking the BC Rail locomotive backshop in Squamish, BC. Getting some attention is an MLW RS-18, GMD electric locomotive GF6C, a former MLW RS-18 being completely rebuilt into a Caterp... (more)

The belch that made Montreal famous! Or was that Schenectady? Expanding its carbon footprint, a BCRail northward freight gets underway at the north end of Squamish yard after some minor switchin... (more)

Route of The Cariboo locomotive evolution! Here are four generations of locomotive technology represented by MLW/GE at Squamish Yard. BCRail hosted an open house celebration for the introduction... (more)

Budd RDC numbered BC 33 repainted in its original PGE colours at the West Coast Railway Museum

The Royal Hudson backs up in the morning light out of the shop track in Squamish as it sets to depart for Vancouver, BC.

A rare M630W, 725, clears its throat as it accelerates northbound out of Squamish, leading three standard-cab M630's on a 47-car extra with a stunning wall of coastal mountains serving as a backdr... (more)

PGE RS-3 was restored by the West Coast Railway Museum in Squamish, BC to appear as it did when delivered to the railway in the mid 1950's.

Those guys on the end of 564 are delegation from the shop. They were going to pull that unit out of the stub track and take it somewhere, I hope to be repaired. Poor 575 appeared to have had the... (more)

Those guys on the end of the unit are delegation from the shop. They were going to pull this unit out of the stub track and take it somewhere, I hope to be repaired.

This thing was probably out of service with the coming of the M-420Bs. It was converted from an SP&S FB-1. I really like the smokestack. There must be a stove in there!

None of the units had an "F" on either end (Some wierd Canadian thing?) but his end has a pilot, marker lights and a bell. That says "front" to me. Very likely the only RS-10 I ever saw.

The frames of either 755 or 760 lies in the yard of the BCR Workshops at Squamish in August 1985. Purchased new in 1980, both 755 and 760 were wrecked in June 1984 and were both retired the same y... (more)

Spic and span and ready for return to Vancouver.

CP 3716 takes a rest after subbing for BC Rail's Royal Hudson #2860 on an excursion from North Vancouver to Squamish and return. Or... apparently, I was once in Squamish. I do recall the chase -... (more)