A view most of us never want to see in person. Looking back from the leading locomotive. The sanders are on and you can see the effect on the right of the photo. Taken at 1/50 of a sec.
CP doesn't run that many EMD Macs through this territory so it is a treat when you get one, seen here passing the Columbus Amtrak station.
Dusk falls over the plains as yet more Powder River Coal roals south over the Orin Line.
Another interesting consist coming eastbound from Fernie over the Crowsnest pass in a snowstorm. Three SD90s and one SD40-2.
Single unit pulls 220 east, at track speed
Another beautiful day, this time riding grain empties east towards Fernie.
An all-UP consist (8306 and 8272, with 8291 cut in mid-train) rolls North Dakota grain through Fernie, enroute to the PNW.
UP 8035 passes the concrete shed entrance to the west end of tunnel 40 (abandoned).
101 takes the siding at Banff.
Looking small against the rockies, a UP coal train threads through Byers Canyon
CEFX 106 slowly makes it's way west with 98 grain loads.
Empty Union Pacific coal train working its way past Kirkwood Station as another late autumn day draws to a close--Canon PowerShot G2
An eastbound coal train ducks under the classic CNW signal bridge in town while the locomotive's headlights light up the CNW coal chute in the distance.
A CEFX 90MAC leads a BN paint 70MAC west with coal empties as the sun gets ready to call it a day.
Western coal with 2 UP and a former SP engine head towards Baltimore through the WV countyside.
