RailPictures.Net Photo: CP 8418 Canadian Pacific Railway EMD GP7 at Field, British Columbia, Canada by Bill Edgar

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» Canadian Pacific Railway (more..)
» EMD GP7 (more..)

» Arriving Field off kicking Horse Pass.
» Field, British Columbia, Canada (more..)
» May 05, 1978

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CP GP7 8418 and a pair of GP9s are smoking up the valley with their train brakes as the westbound rail train finishes its descent into Field, BC along the Kicking Horse River.

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