Train 417 passing thru the Phoenix Street RR Crossing about stop for the Shirley Station.
GE C40-8M "draper taper" leads a pack of 5 other unique locomotives leading train 417 up the hill bound for the mountains, most likely dropping off some units on the way.
Driver Alf Gibbons ready to start the 'Metro-Land' Railtour with No.12 'Sarah Siddons' and BR Mk1 stock.
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CN 2269 is seen leading train 417 west at Henry House outside Jasper, Alberta - 15/07/2010
Westbound passes Hells Gate of the Fraser Canyon, which pierces the Cascade range.CP main is on other side of river. The lodge is only accessible by cable gondola
BNSF 9803 & BN 9543 are doing what there builder intended, moving coal, altough empty now, on NS train 417 heading back for the coal fields to the west, as they pass by CP 285 in Toledo, Oh, and a... (more)
