CP 8606 is seen desending Kicking Horse Pass just west of Stephen at the start of the 2.2% grade down to Field - 17/07/2010

Looking westward across Wapta Lake with the sunrise. Note the foreground is still in the shade. I attempted using a gradient ND filter on this one (on the camera).

Spectacular scenery and clean locomotives allows some decent photography, especially considering the sun had just broken through after a day of cloudy conditions.

It is almost 6:30a.m. and the sun has just crested over the mountains as the morning mist begins to dissipate.

CP 9661 West has just crossed the continental divide and is heading down the "Big Hill" to Field.

Canadian Pacific dome-sleeper-observation Laurentide Park carries the markers on the eastbound Canadian at Field, BC. Are there more beautiful mountains in North America than these that surround ... (more)

Before VIA assumed operation of most Canadian passenger service, CP's dome-sleeper-observation car, Laurentide Park, stands during a station stop at Field, BC, dwarfed by the Canadian Rocky Mounta... (more)

There is something so majestic about the twists and turns leading to the Spiral Tunnels in Yoho National Park. Grain empties climb the "Big Hill" behind 2 SD40F's and a nearly new AC4400.

The DPU in dynamic brake pulls pm 671 as it heads down the Big Hill, Vanguard Peak looming out of the clouds in the background

The DPU in dynamic brake pulls pm 671 as it heads down the Big Hill

A loaded westbound potash train chugs down a 2% grade in a high notch, the rest of the train is still in Alberta!

An SW9 and a woodside caboose back through the small yard in Field, BC.

Dwarfed by the Rocky Mountains, the Rocky Mountaineer passes through the Mount Stephen Tunnel approaching the concrete snowshed and avalanche diversion channel.

CP 9515 just led a westbound freight train over the continental divide to crew change point Field, B.C. The engineer in charge is inspecting the machine he is going to take over.