The original VIA Rocky Mountaineer has just passed the westbound Canadian at Stephen and is headed east for its next stop at Lake Louise. You can barely see the Canadian's rear dome above the seco... (more)
The female engineer trainee on the 8723 west slows down for a meet while 352 holds the main with 102 a block behind pushing them all the way to Calgary
In another 50 meters, CP 8748 will begin descending on the "South Main" toward Lake Louise, on to Calgary and points east.
Sitting dead on Gap siding, with Mount McGillivray (on left) and Pigeon Mountain (at right) in the background
VIA 2 is eastbound at Leanchoil, British Columbia.
CP Train 105, the town of Nipigon, and the lower Nipigon river.
A westbound grain train meets the eastbound Canadian at the summit of Kicking Horse pass. Summit Lake is in the foreground.
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.
A freight heads west from Rogers Pass.
CP special train Calgary to Vancouver
CP hudson 2816 with her matching passsenger train steams around Morant's Curve in the morning
The problem with summertime photography in the mountains is the long maintenance shutdowns. I think this was worth the three hour wait.
Westbound from here, you're into hallowed ground as a railfan. The spiral tunnels are a mere 15 miles west from what is now a fabulous restaurant
Westbound exits Mt. McDonald Tunnel.
