The eastbound Canadian slows to enter a siding near the summit of Kicking Horse Pass, just west of Lake Louise, AB, where it will run around a freight holding the main, but have to wait for anothe... (more)

CP 9353 leads an empty Canpotex potash train into Revelstoke in late afternoon where it will change crews before heading east.

At the end of a lovely day of railroad photography, we took time to relax at Swan Landing, overlooking Brule Lake on the Athabasca River west of Hinton, AB. The last train of the day was this west... (more)

BNSF 5257 and 798, the latter in Santa Fe paint, head east with a manifest freight at Dallesport, WA, along the Columbia River and below Mt. Hood. The train is out of Vancouver, WA headed for Pasc... (more)

A rare photo for me, an actual BN passenger train. Here the Mainstreeter is briefly stopped at Minneapolis before heading to St. Paul. BN ran intercity passenger service for only 14 months prior t... (more)

Outside of the GN diesel house at Harrison St., Minneapolis, a group of power is idling in below zero weather. The mostly former GN group includes GP9M (designated GP5 on GN), rebuilt from an FT t... (more)

BN 2526, a former Burlington Route GP35 is in for servicing at the former GN diesel house at Harrison St., Minneapolis. This facility became redundant with the completion of new facilities at the ... (more)

CP SD40-2 no. 5938 is paired up with an MLW C424 on a westbound freight headed towards Winnipeg from Thunder Bay, ON and Kenora at Keewatin, ON. CP ran left handed on this double track line at the... (more)

CNW 7005 leads a coal train west out of North Platte Yard and will cut off west of town and head up the UP line to Scotts Bluff, cutting off west of Scotts Bluff at South Morrill to go northwest t... (more)

Milwaukee Road SD40-2 no. 24 leads a freight west across the Yakima River near Cabin creek, west of Easton, WA as it starts its rather easy climb up the east side of Snoqualmie Pass en route to Ta... (more)

A Milwaukee freight led by GP9 285 heads west (south) past a string of loaded log cars east of Maytown, WA on April Fool's Day 1979. The train is en route to Portland, OR and will get on BN tracka... (more)

The Canadian takes the siding while a westbound freight slides by on the main on Kicking Horse Pass near Summit Lake on the BC/Alberta border west of Lake Louise. The CP head brakeman or fireman g... (more)

A fresh coat of paint does not appear to be enough to keep CNW 1685 going. The unit is stored dead and appears to be in the process of being parted out at Huron, SD in October 1980. Sister unit 1... (more)

CNW made a lot of improvements in the 1970s and 80s, but were pretty frugal when it came to yard trackage. Here at Altoona this view shows a transition track to a scale, which obviously has seen b... (more)

The CN Super Continental rolls south down the Thompson Rvier valley north of North Kamloops in August 1975. The train features an A-B-B set of FP9s, and a former Milwaukee Road Superdome, but did ... (more)