Q112 swings through a curve along Brule Lake with the Miette and Brule ranges providing the back drop.
A year to the day after moving to the Lethbridge area, I finally got a train on the High Level bridge...CP 9618 leads a pair of Red Barns and a standard SD40-2 on 124 potash empties for Saskatchew... (more)
Both CN and CP change sides in the Fraser River canyon at Cisco BC..Westbound CN on home rails crosses above the CP bridge..Directional running has CN line for westbounds and CP for eastbounds
CP 8720 heads east towards Calgary. A late winter snow happened over night giving the area a fresh blanket of snow.
A pair of Olympic engines lead an eastbound stack train along Wapta Lake.
Plow extra running westbound into Morant's Curve.
Sitting dead on Gap siding, with Mount McGillivray (on left) and Pigeon Mountain (at right) in the background
Eastbound empty coal train on Stoney Creek bridge on the Rogers pass line. The bridge is 325 feet above the creek bed.
Morant's curve from the other direction. It will be more than an hour before the sun, shining on the high peaks, makes it into the valley.
The problem with summertime photography in the mountains is the long maintenance shutdowns. I think this was worth the three hour wait.
Two new locomotives head west.
Special heads to Ft. Steele, B.C.
Sunrise at the Pass Lake trestle.