Things are starting to green up around Jasper as a powered up Q116 departs on a fabulous morning in the Rockies.
My conductor starts to resequence his list after making a pickup at Ackley cars from the Iowa River Railroad. Conductors have to renumber their lists after each pickup and setout to make sure they... (more)
CN F32931 31 detour train rumbles through Whitby with an NS spec'd CN SD70M-2 leading three NS C40-9's and 8,434 ft of train, CN F329 met it's counterpart F328 at Liverpool just a few miles west o... (more)
Bursting out of the darkness and into the splendid morning light 101 makes his way across the 115 foot high bridge that spans 1,695 feet wide.
"Yeah were getting off at the same spot, over.." CN 107 throttles out of Dock Siding at the North Siding Switch with NS-style 8021 and 5602 enroute to a crew change at South Pa... (more)
On its way to plow heavy snow up North.
The rear remote on this CN coal train prepares to pull 80 plus coal loads foward due to a broken draw bar in the middle of the train. Was quite the sound and sight listening to this single sd 70 a... (more)
A different way to railfan the CN route through the Thompson River.
CN's newest power leads a sulfur train across Anderson Creek Trestle, located a few miles south of Boston Bar, BC.
Canadian National 8021 South passes the restored depot and small city park in Pesotum, Illinois on December 16, 2007. SAM SMEDLEY PHOTO
In the distance, an American flag salutes a CN-led military train heading westward through Chicago Heights, IL.
The CN's M271 train heads south near Monee, IL on a bitterly cold February day.
Roaring south at track speed, this auto train is led by the first CN SD70M-2 I have seen, this guy was flying.