CP Baldwin DRS4-4-1000 No. 8003 idles at a small engine facility in Vancouver, BC.

Don't be fooled by the noodles; this is a Canadian Pacific train on CP track, the afternoon intermodal transfer from downtown Vancouver to Coquitlam IMS. Here, the engineer pauses at the foot of M... (more)

Six CN switchers make a light engine move from Thornton Yard near Surrey, BC to North Vancouver in April 1984. The units are at a junction in Burnaby on the east side of Vancouver that separates C... (more)

Power for CP Rail's Canadian is being swithced at their Vancouver coach yard and city roundhouse just southeast of downtown. Access to this yard is through a horseshoe tunnel under the city from t... (more)

CN 1282, an SW1200RS handles switching duties on the business side of the Canadian National station in Vancouver, BC on the U.S. President's Day weekend thirty years ago. Passenger trains are run ... (more)

A group of MLW/Alco switchers including S2 7094 rest between assignments in downtown Vancouver, BC in August 1978. The foreground track was used to turn the Canadian passenger train consist after ... (more)

CP 7109, an MLW (Alco) S4 switcher sticks its nose out of the Vancouver roundhouse while passenger GP9 no. 8516 looks on. This facility served city switchers as well as passenger power for CP's Ca... (more)

Two BNSF locomotives (still in its old Burlington Northern colours) by Ballantyne Pier in Vancouver with a load of flatcars that just came off a rail ferry. BNSF no longer serves this pier and sin... (more)

The conductor on the crew visiting the O Yard cautiously checks the water levels as the west coast rain has started to flood the area. Fortunately the water wasn't dangerously high, but the two ge... (more)

Great Northern’s 4-car Train No. 323 leaves CN and GN’s depot at Vancouver, B.C., headed for Seattle on April 10, 1969. Even though one of GN’s boiler-equipped SDP-40’s leads the train, a... (more)

CP Rail MLW S2 7094 and S4 7117 have ring side seats as S4 7118 brings the Canadian, featuring Laurentide Park on the rear, around the balloon track at CP's Vancouver coach yard on August 6, 1978.... (more)

Back in the days that the Sky Train only ran on one route, a set of UTDC Mark 1 cars is seen near the Main Street/Science Center.

To make room for the 1986 World's Fair, VIA consolidated passenger operations into the former Canadian National Vancouver terminal. This was the last time I would see so many non-museum F-units a... (more)

Heading into a hazy Vancouver with a solid set of MLWs.

VIA #6304 sits at the former Canadian National terminal in Vancouver. In the morning she will head east. The glowing dome on the left is part of the newly-opened 1986 Worlds Fair.