Emerging from the dark of the upper spiral, a westbound grain train screeches through a curve into Yoho

An eastbound empty grain train chugs geographical west through Yoho siding towards the upper spiral tunnel

Chugging as he throttles his train up, the engineer of 663 starts out of the siding and onto the hill

A westbound changes crews at station at Field BC.Train has just crossed Kicking Horse Pass and ahead lies Kicking Horse Canyon and Rogers Pass

Westbound intermodal hits the bottom of the Big Hill in spectacular, bright winter light

Westbound into Field, with Mt. Stephen towering above

Westbound intermodal hits the bottom of the grade in spectacular, bright winter light

Coming off the 2.4% grade into Field and taking the main at the equilateral switch with Mt. Ogden in the background. Drilled through the foot of Mt. Ogden are the Spiral Tunnels.

Rolling off the 2.4% grade into Field

Rolling off the 2.4% grade into Field

It's late afternoon as 9020 drops down through Yoho with a unit grain train. The tail end is still winding out of the upper spiral tunnel ata steady 20 mph. When the GE's first came on stream, the... (more)

CP GEVOs 8710, 8759 and 8755 are performing some sort of tests around the Spiral Tunnels. The 8755 was wearing 3 SBUs on it's nose, so I can only assume that they were testing to see if there was ... (more)

CP 2816 rolls west over the Ottertail River west of Field.