Happy Thanksgiving Canada, Columbus Day USA. Today I'm thankful CP put a Red Barn in the lead position :-)

A-B-A profile.

After an early departure out of Revelstoke the passenger special takes the Connaught track and tunnel through the Rogers Pass. The sun is just beginning to crest the peaks.

It is unusual to see a GP38-2 on the Mountain Sub, let alone a Milwaukee Road (MILW 363) /SOO Line original. These 2 units are here on MOW duties.

The picture is level- the grade is not. The FP9's are pulling hard to lift the RCP over the 2.2% grade of the Big Hill of the Kicking Horse Pass

The Golden to Cranbrook local makes its way south through Parson early on a summer morning.

Heritage meets new. CP 4107 with the freshly painted B unit enter the south end of Golden Yard as the newer CP 9355 waits for clearance to head south. (Taken with permission)

Calgary bound Rocky Mountaineer passes through K.C. Junction. "KC" refers to the "Kootenay Central Railway", the name for the original charter to build a railway heading south from Golden, which... (more)

Leading the local, CP 5866 South speeds through Spillimacheen. CP has just finished extending the siding here.

The westbound VIA Rail Transcontinental an early morning stop at Abbotsford Station. Because this stop is outside the city and in the middle of farm land, there is nothing more here than a sign a... (more)

A bird's eye view from the cliffs along Columbia Lake.

Two old warriors head south along the Windermere Sub with air support from a couple of mallards.

The Rocky Mountaineer rolls into the tiny hamlet of Field for a crew change. The second unit is RMXR 8019, an EMD GP40-2 which was once on the Union Pacific roster.

CP 9351 and CP 8927 get serviced and prepped before departure. Meanwhile a fuel truck crosses over at the south end of the Golden Yard. It must be Spring; ice in the foreground and heat distorti... (more)

Ice flow and spring time in the Rockies. Crossing the Kicking Horse River, CP 8830 slows for a meet at Ottertail West