Coming eastward through Ottertail on a cold spring morning. Even CP's borrowed power is a GE unit (Dash-9).
The wayfreight from Golden to Cranbrook heads south through the Columbia Wetlands - a protected ecological reserve.
"Cow and calf" laze about the yard as the road engine does all the work.
Eastbound CP 8722 passes under the Abbotsford-Mission bridge after just coming off the CN Yale Sub.
Showing off a new nose herald the RMRX 8017 is ready to lead the VIP Charter out of Golden.
Ready to face the day. A variety of CP motive power wait on the ready tracks in Golden.
GMD on the CP. This GMD (EMD) consist just finished its run from Cranbrook and is heading to the service track.
Pulling out of Golden into the Kicking Horse Canyon.
Southbound CP 8897 passes mile post 138 on the Windermere Sub.
Two GE units lead 154 car loads of grain west to Prince Rupert. An SD70M-2 DPU is 104 cars back. A snowmobiler is sitting in the shadows watching the train go by.
Two SD70M-2s haul through the straight stretch at Tintagel.
G888 heads east through the late winter landscape. Come on Spring.
CN 2450 rolls eastbound through Burns Lake. Looks like they battled a few snow drifts on the way.
On New Year's Day some local boys organize a hockey game, and an ice fisherman on the far side of the lake stoops over the hole as the "Skeena" heads west.
The conductor braves opening the window at -4F to give a friendly wave as C751 takes the siding at Tintagel for a meet with G888.
