Blowing for the crossing at Banff East, 2816 comes into Banff where a LARGE crowd awaits! Dominating this submontaine meadow is Cascade Mountain
A loaded westbound potash train chugs down a 2% grade in a high notch, the rest of the train is still in Alberta!
The DPU of a westbound grain train headed down the canyon is dwarfed not only by the western ridges of the Rockies, but also by the new highway bridge that even has a tendancy to block out the pea... (more)
Hi-ball through Morant's! It's a full moon, and bad luck has drawn me trackside on a cold night. A road closure kept me from taking landscape shots, so I stopped at Morant's to capture the beauty ... (more)
400-05 passes through the slow curve just west of Edworthy Park
Heading down the Kicking Horse River Canyon, 2816 steams past the old abutments of the recently rerouted trans-Canada highway before heading under the new and impressive highway bridge. The railw... (more)
Boundary in Bloom! The westbound Kootenay Valley Railway hotshot, led by ex-SOO SD40-2 6613 rumbles through Shoreacres, the former siding now overgrown by flowers. Much of the Boundary Sub... (more)
The westbound Rocky Mountaineer forms a nice wide-angle cliche
Headed north along the Columbia river towards Golden, with the BC 150 train in tow
403-05 passes under the bluffs at Massive on a stormy day...it's snowing on the peaks.
Emerging from the dark of the upper spiral, a westbound grain train screeches through a curve into Yoho
Heading westbound downgrade past Sink Lake, this westbound has just started up its dynamic brakes as the rear end pulls over the top of the pass. This is part 2 of the story started Railroad: Canadian Pacific RailwayLocomotive: GE ES44ACLocation: Field, British Columbia, CanadaLocomotive #: CEFX 1026Train ID: CP 115Photo Date: February 03, 2011
On a stretch of track across a frozen lake from a closed highway, an eastbound intermodal climbs up to the Great Divide beside Wapta Lake. Trains are few and far between as avalanches and the dang... (more)
Passing down the Columbia river on its way from Nelson to Trail
359-875 is meeting 356-107 at Massive, and then heading into the S curve
