A loaded Brandon, MB - Thunder Bay, ON detoured West Coast potash train pulls through Portage La Prairie, MB. This was a morning of potash... All within about two hours CP had 3 and CN had 2 potas... (more)

CN Q116 is seen approaching the CP Carberry Sub diamond with 3096 & 2847 providing the power for this stack train.

Portage La Prairie, MB is a special train watching location with the CN and CP transcontinental mainlines crossing each other in town and running parallel for a short distance. Here we have a west... (more)

The daily Gary Kirk, IN to Prince George, BC lumber express heads through town with 136 spines.

Fields begin to come to life as a CP freight rolls past.

The St Paul, MN to Saskatoon Sutherland, SK freight slows through Portage to take the switch onto the Prairie North Line.

CN 403 departs Portage La Prairie after crossing the CP mainline at grade.

Edmonton-Winnipeg train M318 heads through Portage la Prairie with CN SD70M-2 8817 leading the way.

An extra local from Minnedosa, MB rests in the yard at Portage la Prairie with some grain empties for an elevator east of town.

CN SD75I 5729 leads some extra tonnage from Melville, SK eastward towards Winnipeg, MB on the Rivers Sub.

VIA F40PH-3s 6455 and 6448 add a bit of colour to the prairie landscape, leading train #692 eastward on CN's Gladstone Sub.

CP 6719 and its crew prepare to spot a mechanical reefer at Portage La Prairie, MB on a lovely June 16, 1986. The reefer displays CP's classy script lettering and silver paint with black ends.

CP 8931 passing by the former CP station platform (now a museum) in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

CP 8954 + CSXT 3214 pull 145 cars across the Prairie

CN SD70I 5613 + CN C40-8 2101 lug a long string of grain empties and manifest from Winnipeg Symington, MB to Canora, SK up CN's Prairie North Line