Reflecting late afternoon sunlight onto the waters of Brule Lake at 8:47 p.m. on July 15, 2013, Canadian National train 112 bends through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing near Brule, Alberta.

A Canpotex train holds the siding west of Calgary.

CP 8888 leads train 100 east along the Bow River near Exshaw, AB. I always make sure I bring my tall rubber boots when I go railfanning. On this particular day they definitely came in handy. To ge... (more)

DPU on an eastbound potash train.

Once sitting nearby rotting in the weeds, #1400 is on display with #29 in Ogden, having been relocation from the Pavilion downtown.

A CPKC train with five motors "the conventional way" is not something to ignore, but I very quicky found out the "conventional way" of two motors, one CP on KCS, was all-too-co... (more)

ES44DC 2331 and Dash 9-44CW 2505 lead CN 520 through Ranfurly.

CN 2969 heads west on the Wainwirght Sub.

The Final Spike Tour has started and Day One is about to wrap up with the train between Medicine Hat and Dunmore. Interesting set up between yards here plus the landscape is an escape from the ot... (more)

Sitting out the festivities in 2024. It once served as back-up power for #2816 as well as making a complete A-B-A set for the Royal Canadian Pacific sets. With the merger, CPKC now has a rather ... (more)

CP 8063 leads train 100 east through Edworthy Park in Calgary.

Impressed by the Empress. The Final Spike Tour: Day One has passed thru Medicine Hat and is going towards the yard in Dunmore for the night. The Hydrogen unit #1001 will be pulled off the consis... (more)

The pre-Final Spike Tour prep. My last visit to this exact spot was in 2013, as the former Ogden Shops were being transformed into the Ogden Campus. This very same unit, #1401 was sitting right ... (more)

Victory lap. For both the Empress and the photographer. In 2011, my last visit to see her in action was met with "diesel substitute" as she went down with repair. She was repaired, tes... (more)

Ex-CMQ nee-CP SD40-2F #9024. It actually glows in the dark....well, no, but after making headlines for being in tow with #2816 eastward, it was dropped off here for crew familiarization well into... (more)