VIA Train No 1 stops briefly at Banff, Alberta and loads and unloads passengers. Banff is a major destination for train travelers to the extent Canadian Pacific built a massive and elegant chatea... (more)

CP 9530 west passes the storage tracks at Banff.

Our model railroad convention in Calgary, AB in August of 1971 featured an excursion with CPR C-Liner 4081 from Calgary to Field, BC. Here it is stopped at Banff, AB for a photo opportunity. CLC... (more)

CP 8874 East at Banff.

Westbound CP 9524 approaching the east end of Banff Siding.

Sitting across one of only two roads into Banff, the CP Holiday Train is the center of action, although most of the crowds are on the other side being yelled at by the CP police to stay there, giv... (more)

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)

177-22 heads west along the calm autumn waters of the Bow River. There's snow on Sulphur Mountain by this time in September, and there was snow earlier on the ground that day. Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CP 8863
Train ID: CP 177
Photo Date: September 22, 2010

The Royal Canadian Pacific was completely unexpected but was the perfect way to start of my trip in Canada. It was the first train of the trip. She was pulling into Banff to pick up a group of s... (more)

Uploaded nearly a month after the fact, this is still the first snow shot of the year on Railpictures. The snow lasted but a few days, and made for some great shots in the meantime! Here we see a ... (more)

VIA Rail FP7A 1432 leads the westbound Canadian at Banff, Alberta in 1980.

2816 steams through Banff, creating quite a show for whoever's watching! Of interest are the two snowplows on the left side of the frame, under the summit of Mount Inglismaldie

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)