From the J.A. Payne estate. The photographer was 15 when he took this picture in 1909. It shows the Stoney Creek Bridge 20 years before CPR engineers twinned the arches and changed the deck to gir... (more)
A short stop at Lillooet for this three car consist. The end car, an RDC-1 will return to Vancouver as the remaining two cars continue on to Prince George. This RDC-3 was equipped with a galley an... (more)
The second Q197 on the new run from Memphis to Prince Rupert (B.C.) highballs through the open northern country. CN 8832, CN 8011, CN 2548 provide the power.
You would think that with all this lumber being produced locally that the prices at the lumber yard in the background would reflect that. Not a chance. BTW the second unit is a Dash 8-40CM.
Two SD70M-2s with a Dash-9 highball a stack train westward at 6:50 a.m.
Conductor T.W. prepares to change consist assignment. Due to staffing shortage and high traffic volume, the empty exec train was added to the head end of an empty coal train. The sun went down bef... (more)
Local 561 heads west toward "clear" signal for switching assignment at local sawmill.
A study in lights? At 8:45 p.m. the evening sun lights up the landscape.
VIA 6403 in CBC 50th anniversary colours coming into Burns Lake. In the sun at 1/25 sec. with an ND filter.
One lone Dash-9 pulls a train of empty grain hoppers eastward out of the village of Burns Lake.
VIA 6401 leading the "Skeena" eastward to Prince George for the night then on to Jasper the next morning.
A 2004 model leads a 1998 model Dash 9 through the countryside. Oh right, it is all countryside here :-)
Grinding west of Burns Lake at Palling Siding. The waterboy missed a few spots so the foreman (watching) had to go back along the mainline and do a fire check. Railroad: Canadian National RailwayLocomotive: Loram GrinderLocation: Burns Lake, British Columbia, CanadaLocomotive #: MPC3Train ID: nonePhoto Date: May 25, 2008
Canadian wild at 7:00a.m. Seniority must count for something as the older SD40-2 leads the newer SD70M-2 eastward with a hot load.
Lakeside broadside in the early morning sun - just west of Burns Lake at Decker Lake.
