The Empress is on the first mile of the Final Spike Tour's adventure thru the Americas after a service stop & customs at the border.
Canadian Pacific's 4-6-4 Hudson "The Empress" has just crossed the border into the United States for the first time in nearly two decades as it passes the abandoned Soo turntable at Port... (more)
2816 pulls into the United States at Portal, ND as they pass the abandoned turntable.
The Strathcona brings up the rear of the US Holiday Train.
For my first time being to Portal, I hit jackpot! I stumbled into an old SOO steam era turntable during my search for an escape route from the States (just kidding!) and managed to work the CP 937... (more)
A long 298 sits in the yard in Portal as two locomotives inch their way closer on an adjacent track. The locomotives, fetched from the North Portal Yard about half a mile away in Canada, will soon... (more)
Two CP Freights await departure as a coal train for BNSF at Minot clears the VACIS machine. The coal train had four units, including a 'red barn' and BNSF SD60M 9206 in the 'new image' scheme.
