X417's train speeds down the main at Swan Landing behind CN C44-9WL 2509.

Diesel loads climb the hill towards the summit at Obed with a good leader.

CN C44-9WL 2511 leads a loaded diesel fuel train west at Pedley.

Wearing different paints schemes, a pair of of C44-9WLs lead a Davidson-Vancouver grain train west.

A matching pair of rough looking CN C44-9WLs lead M310's train across the Pembina River between Evansburg and Entwislte.

CN C44-9WL 2511 looks great leading grain empties east.

CN C44-9WLs 2520 and 2522 speed over the Pembina River between Evansburg and Entwistle leading train M310 eastward towards Edmonton.

One of CN's better looking C44-9WLs slowly pulls away from Jasper, AB leading train G834.

The summer of 2009 I spent wandering Alberta and British Columbia and, already, so many of those images are not to be repeated and can be considered "classic". I caught the tail end of ... (more)

Back in 2009, I wanted to get BC Rail leading....so I had to travel all the way out into the wild woods of BC. Here, the normally-nocturnal L571 made a daylight appearance on the north end. At t... (more)

CN C44-9WL's #2517 & #2520 Roll Through The Burnt Landscape Of Lytton.

A Pair Of CN C44-9WL's Lead Q143 At Braid.

L576 passes through cranberry marshes during the return trip to Blair. The job made a 77 car pickup in Wisconsin Rapids in addition to exchanging CN 2646 for CN 2765.

U723 Tackles The Curve At Popkum With A Classic C44-9WL.

G811's train is ties down in the yard at Edson, likely waiting for space at the Port of Vancouver. Funnily enough, CN's C44-9WLs are slowly starting to look better as the paint fades into one soli... (more)