VIA 2, "The Canadian," crosses the Harrison River outside of Agassiz, BC on a cool fall afternoon.

At the beginning of a 3.5 day transcontinental journey, VIA Rail Train 2, The Canadian, has just left Vancouver and is gliding through CN's Thorton Yard just after sunset.

The West Coast Express commuter rail service slips into the former Canadian Pacific station in Vancouver on it's morning run from Mission, BC.

A westbound CP grain train crosses over an eastbound CP unit coal train at Cisco in the Fraser River Canyon. Some years ago CP and CN entered into a "directional running agreement" for t... (more)

Train 2, "The Canadian," has just left Vancouver's Pacific Central Station on its way to Toronto on a windy summer evening. The VIA slips past a CN freight waiting for its turn to leave the yard t... (more)

Bound for Waterfront, a new Bombardier "Innovia Metro 300" trainset pulls into 22nd Street Station on the Expo Line. With 79.5km of track on 3 lines, serving 53 stations, the Skytrain ne... (more)

The West Coast Express commuter rail service glides into the former Canadian Pacific Vancouver terminal in the blue hour before dawn. Long distance rail operations out of the station ended in 1979... (more)

Amtrak 517, Cascades service from Vancouver to Seattle, cruises along the Bellingham waterfront on its way to Fairhaven Station at sunset.

During a rare snowstorm in Vancouver which saw 16cm (6") of snow fall in a matter of hours, a CN conductor clears snow and ice from the points of a switch in Surrey's Thorton Yard before his ... (more)

CP 8804 leads a unit coal train over the Harrison River, eastbound on the CP Cascade Sub.

The sun sets over the museum and shops in Mineral, WA as Polson Logging #70 waits for the Whisky Train passengers to finish sampling some wonderful local spirits before taking the train back to El... (more)

The train doesn't stop here anymore ... Amtrak NPCU 90252 is on point of the morning Cascades service from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR. The train has just cleared customs and is rolling past the... (more)

The "Spirit of Kamloops" pulling an excursion from Campbell Creek to Armstrong, BC.

Via 2, "The Canadian" pulls out of Vancouver's Pacific Central Station as the sun slips below the tops of the mountains.

VIA 2, "The Canadian," crosses the Harrison River outside of Agassiz, BC on a cool fall afternoon while a few local anglers wait to reel in some of the local salmon.