The floods of spring now gone, an eastbound intermodal shoots across the fill at the oxbow of the Bow River known as Muleshoe. Snow still lingers on the south facing slope of Massive Mountain, but... (more)

A light snowstorm near sunset leaves fresh snow to be kicked up by eastbound empty potash train #672, led by still new GEVo 8946. In the darkest depths of the Canadian winter, a golden glow linger... (more)

Heading down the Kicking Horse River Canyon, 2816 steams past the old abutments of the recently rerouted trans-Canada highway before heading under the new and impressive highway bridge. The railw... (more)

The mountains northeast of the town of Jasper cling to the last diffused rays of sunset as a hot westbound intermodal departs for a Pacific terminal Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD75I
Location: Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CN 5681
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 06, 2011

Looking for all the world like a Christmas card with soft shadows, a westbound CP intermodal shows that snow is the greatest reflector known to photographers. A recent dump has left everything cov... (more)

Someone must have taken an interest in a unique numberboard! Either that or an accident with a crow took out one of 8888's numberboards...regardless, here she is departing westbound with a loaded ... (more)

CP 8839 east heads up to the very top of the Big Hill in a midwinter windstorm. CP 115 has stalled out on the eastern slope (7000 feet and 2 AC4400s didn't work out) and 8839 will decouple from it... (more)

Heading westbound downgrade past Sink Lake, this westbound has just started up its dynamic brakes as the rear end pulls over the top of the pass. This is part 2 of the story started Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Field, British Columbia, Canada
Locomotive #: CEFX 1026
Train ID: CP 115
Photo Date: February 03, 2011

Dynamic braking for all they're worth, 5 GEs ease all of loaded westbound potash train 671's 142 cars down the Big Hill. (2 on the headend, two scattered mid-train, and one on the rear) This view ... (more)

On a stretch of track across a frozen lake from a closed highway, an eastbound intermodal climbs up to the Great Divide beside Wapta Lake. Trains are few and far between as avalanches and the dang... (more)

Sitting across one of only two roads into Banff, the CP Holiday Train is the center of action, although most of the crowds are on the other side being yelled at by the CP police to stay there, giv... (more)

Snow falls softly on the lighted snow outside Banff Station for the night, the crowds have departed leaving the Canadian Holiday Train (01H-09) quietly chugging in the sub-zero temperatures. On t... (more)

Heading eastbound along the sunrise-lit shores of Wapta Lake and dwarfed by Mt. Stephen's 11K' bulk, second 110 grinds upgrade through the sag along Wapta's shore. This is the former site of a wye... (more)

On a partly sunny day, a westbound 351 (and not the only one that day) overlaps itself on the way to Vancouver during the beginning of fall in the Rockies. At this point, the westbound train is he... (more)

How about this view? A westbound grain train crawls down the hill at 15MPH, overlapping itself in the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The train is just about to emerge in a cloud of exhaust and brake shoe sm... (more)