A fresh fall of snow at Morant's Curve. What could be better?
An eastbound splits the forest behind a pair of new SD40s (5534 and 5520) assisted by booster 4454, a CPB16-4, and GP9 8670.
CP CEFX 1008 east negotiates Morant's Curve just east of Lake Louise Alberta.
CP hudson 2816 with her matching passsenger train steams around Morant's Curve in the morning
CP mixed freight gets the go ahead outside Lake Louise to head to Field BC
CP unit auto rack train heading west just outside Lake Louise
9107,9763 whip around Morant's Curve with 1 mile to go before this expedited train will get up to 50mph
CP unit train of Potash
Sulphur empties trail 2 clean AC4400's into the station at Lake Louise(now a great restaurant)
The problem with summertime photography in the mountains is the long maintenance shutdowns. I think this was worth the three hour wait.
VIA 6457 leads the very last eastbound Canadian scheduled on the CP prior to the cuts of January 1990 through Morant's Curve.
On the approach to Morant's Curve with a westbound
Westbound from here, you're into hallowed ground as a railfan. The spiral tunnels are a mere 15 miles west from what is now a fabulous restaurant