Canadian Forest Products 2-8-2 type steam locomotive #113 on display at Woss, BC. 135 tons, built by Alco in 1920. This photo is from a trip my wife & I took out west on VIA Rail’s ‘Skeena’ ... (more)

The RDC pair making up VIA's daily Vancouver Island run over CP subsidiary Equimalt & Nanaimo has reached its northern terminal, and lays over at the sturdy old Courtenay station before returning... (more)

A pair of heavily modified SW1200s have dropped a train load of logs at the yard in Beaver Cove and have coupled onto a string of skeleton cars for the return trip back into the forests of Vancouv... (more)

SRY 128 leading the Parksville Turn across the Englishman River Bridge.

SRY 128 leading the Duncan Turn as they near Koksilah siding, which is now the southern end of in service track for the E&N.

Bloedel 2-truck Shay #1, Duncan, BC. For more pics & videos from my collection see my website at http://northamericabyrail.info/

Alberni Pacific 2-8-2T type steam locomotive #7 at the engine shed in Port Alberni, BC. For more pics & videos from my collection see my website at http://northamericabyrail.info/

VIA Rail Canada's Malahat approaches Union Bay, B.C., on Vancouver Island, as fall colour starts to show. This line between Victoria and Courtenay is the antithesis of "high iron"; in fact, one is... (more)

Speeder 1 with the East End Track Gang pauses at MP 27.5 of the E&N Railway's Port Alberni Subdivision (ex CP) for a photo shoot on site of a recent major rock slide above Vancouver Island's Alber... (more)

Alberni Pacific Railway’s 1929 built 2-8-2ST departs from the former Canadian Pacific Railway station for the 5-mile trip to the R.B McLean Mill Historic Site.

The northbound Malahat crosses the 529 foot Niagara Creek Canyon Trestle. The cantilever suspension bridge was constructed in 1883 and used to cross the Fraser River at Cisco, BC before being rel... (more)

VIA 6148 and 6135 arrive at Duncan with the northbound Malahat.

VIA RDC-1s 6135 and 6133 pass SRY 124 as they head for their final stop of the afternoon at the station in downtown Victoria.

Re-routed VIA Malahat crosses the Trans-Canada Highway on its way to the station in Nanaimo. VIA trains between Nanaimo and Victoria where cancelled after SRY closed the Esquimalt Sub south of Dun... (more)

VIA #198, the MALAHAT, just arrived at the Victoria station, from its return trip to Courtenay