Once all too common, the SD's have been regulated to local and switcher duty on lines west of Calgary. CP bases a -2 and a caboose in Ashcroft, BC servcing the local tie plant and copper ore dump... (more)

DPU takes up the rear of an eastward intermodal train as it rolls through Ashcroft BC in the semi arid Thompson River Valley.

Westbound Grain train at the east switch to Ashcroft along the Thompson River. The CPR main is on the opposite bank.

CN eastbound Vancouver to Edmonton intermediate traffic train no. 416 crosses the Thompson River just east of Ashcroft BC. The line to the left is the main line of Canadian Pacific.

CP 8876 is seen leading a westbound coal near Martel - 09/09/2009

CP SD40-2 5794 is seen at Ashcroft, BC - 07/09/2009

SD40-2 5794 and caboose 434558 parked in Ashcroft yard with the Ashcroft wayfreight.

The 10th anniversary Holiday Train departs for Lytton after completing its first scheduled stop of the day in Ashcroft.

CN 5626 waits on the Canadian Pacific main for a westbound with SD70M-2 8827 in the lead to clear before proceeding eastward.

Every time I visit the Ashcroft area, the mountains and cliff sides always reminded me of my favorite television show as I child: The Road Runner and Willie Coyote. Here we see an eastbound grain ... (more)

5555 a perfect number for this SD60F that looks well clean. For someone without railfaning knowledge, it would be hard to guess which locomotive is the most recent one ! Konica Minolta 7D

CN 2231 rolls along the banks of the Thompson River entering the Ashcroft East signal plant.

Eastbound imports from China work up the grade out of Ashcroft bound to Eastern Canadian markets.

Canadian Northern completed the Ashcroft Sub in 1915, CN 107 rolls through here on its Toronto-Vancouver journey in 2008. The scenery just east of Ashcroft looks the same way it did in 1915, howe... (more)