At the beginning of a 3.5 day transcontinental journey, VIA Rail Train 2, The Canadian, has just left Vancouver and is gliding through CN's Thorton Yard just after sunset.

VIA Rail’s Canadian clips along eastbound on Canadian National’s Albreda Subdivision at Von Zuben, British Columbia, on July 14, 2014. Trailing the stainless-steel train is “Park” series s... (more)

VIA Rail’s eastbound Canadian departs Vancouver, British Columbia, and is only minutes into its journey out of Pacific Central Station at CN Junction on September 2, 2007. Three EMD F40PH-2 powe... (more)

VIA F40PH-3s 6415 and 6435 lead the eastbound Canadian past Central Salvage in Heffley Creek.

VIA Rail No. 2, the eastbound Canadian, makes its station stop at Jasper, Alberta, on August 6, 2016. During the layover, the engineer climbs aboard EMD F40PH-3 No. 6438, while further back in the... (more)

Train 2, "The Canadian," has just left Vancouver's Pacific Central Station on its way to Toronto on a windy summer evening. The VIA slips past a CN freight waiting for its turn to leave the yard t... (more)

VIA Rail No. 2, the eastbound Canadian, makes its station stop at Jasper, Alberta, on August 6, 2016. On the rear of today’s train are three “Prestige Sleeper class” cars, including dome-obs... (more)

Reflecting the setting sun with stainless steel, VIA Rail’s eastbound Canadian, arcs through “Robertson’s Curve” at Swan Landing, Alberta, on July 9, 2014. The train is skirting Brule Lake... (more)

Even when the jagged peaks of the Brule Range in Alberta’s Jasper National Park are shrouded in low clouds, the view at Swan Landing is still arresting. On August 6, 2016, eastbound VIA Rail tra... (more)

VIA F40PH-3s 6414 and 6431 depart from Wainwright with eastbound VIA Rail train No 2, the Canadian.

Running an hour early at 2:00 p.m., VIA train No. 2 flies by at Moose Lake, British Columbia, on July 20, 2011. The 20-car streamliner has the usual classy Budd-built Park-series dome-observation ... (more)

Famous streamliner Canadian pauses for a service stop at snowy and isolated township of Hornepayne.

VIA Rail's eastbound 'Canadian' at Jasper, AB. VIA Rail rebuilt F40PH #6406 and Coors Light "Silver Bullet Express" unit #6408 on the point. The fact that the off season service frequency of this ... (more)

A five hour late Canadian makes its way through Bathurst with 24 cars in tow. The equipment move will terminate at TMC in Mimico and will be ready for a 2330 departure the same evening.

The spectacular Brule Range nicely reflects on the calm surface of Brule Lake as VIA Rail’s eastbound Canadian rolls through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of Jul... (more)