Heading eastbound along the sunrise-lit shores of Wapta Lake and dwarfed by Mt. Stephen's 11K' bulk, second 110 grinds upgrade through the sag along Wapta's shore. This is the former site of a wye... (more)

Making close to track speed, a westbound intermodal is almost at the top of one of the gentlest crossings of the Rocky Mountains at Yellowhead Pass. Snow dusts the trees, and sub-zero temperatures... (more)

A Kootenay Morning The westbound Trail Hotshot glides down the gentle and beautiful Kootenay river a couple miles west of Nelson. This unique train runs once a day to service the smelter a... (more)

Bored of the standard shot? Me too!

The mountains northeast of the town of Jasper cling to the last diffused rays of sunset as a hot westbound intermodal departs for a Pacific terminal Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD75I
Location: Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CN 5681
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 06, 2011

With a mountain snowstorm brewing just over the next range in B.C., a westbound manifest travels over the fill at Muleshoe. Picture taken from the foreslopes of Mt. Cory, looking across the Bow va... (more)

With fresh snow flying around it, eastbound intermodal 112-02 flies toward Calgary at track speed on a spectacularly sunny Rocky Mountain day.

A second idiot joined the first one as 400-09 passed over, oblivious.

How about this view? A westbound grain train crawls down the hill at 15MPH, overlapping itself in the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The train is just about to emerge in a cloud of exhaust and brake shoe sm... (more)

Time to play "SPOT THE IDIOT"! The engineer of 400-09 is completely unaware that he is running over someone.

It's spring in Canada. Can you tell?

Hoar Frost With a puff of snow coming from every support as the tall containers pass under around 40MPH, a westbound intermodal is 7.9 miles out of the Calgary terminal headed for Vancouve... (more)

Steaming up out of Lake Louise westbound on the original mainline, now the south track used by eastbounds, 2816 puts out a cloud of steam taking a run at the 1.8% east slope of Kicking Horse Pass

Snow falls softly on the lighted snow outside Banff Station for the night, the crowds have departed leaving the Canadian Holiday Train (01H-09) quietly chugging in the sub-zero temperatures. On t... (more)

Waiting for that perfect eastbound to come along, a westbound pops by with both the DPU and the head end in view